A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, "Anna Karenina" is the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Tolstoy's masterful novel is one of the greatest works of world literature...it is a novel of social realism that perfectly bares the Russian soul, set against the fascinating panorama of life in nineteenth-century Russia.
With a full-cast and stirring music, this compelling story of one woman's fate is brought to life in this powerful BBC production.
Annotation:
Anna Karenina is the wife of a prominant Russian government official. She leads a correct but confining upper-middle-class existence. She seems content with her life as a proper companion to her dignified, unaffectionate husband and an adoring mother to her young son, until she meets Count Vronsky, a young officer of the guards. He pursues her and she falls madly in love with him. Her husband refuses to divorce her, so she gives up everything, including her beloved son, to be with Vronsky. After a short time, Vronsky becomes bored and unhappy with their life as social outcasts. He abandons her, returns to the military and is immediately accepted back into society. Anna, a fallen woman, shunned by respectable society, throws herself under a train.
Paperback: 852 Pages Other Formats
Publisher: Penguin Books
Languages: English
ISBN-10: 0140440410
ISBN-13: 9780140440416
Product Dimensions: 7.78 x 5.10 x 1.45 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.16 ounces
Publication Date:
July 1954
Author: Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Translator: Rosemary Edmonds
BISAC Categories:
Fiction > Classics
Fiction > Literary
Literary Criticism > Russian & Former Soviet Union
Adults
