This new translation has been acclaimed as the definitive English version of Tolstoy's masterpiece. The volume contains an introduction and a preface by John Bayley.
Leo Tolstoy (Author)
Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Tula province. He studied at
the University of Kazan, then led a life of pleasure until 1851
when he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus. He
established his reputation as a writer with The Sebastopol Sketches
(1855-6). After a period in St Petersburg and abroad, he married,
had thirteen children, managed his vast estates in the Volga
Steppes and wrote War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). A
Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life, and in
1901 he was excommuincated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in
1910, in the course of a dramatic flight from home, at the railway
station of Astapovo.
Richard Pevear (Introducer, Translator)
Richard Pevear, along with his wife Larissa Volokhonsky, has
translated works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gogol, Bulgakov
and Pasternak. They both were twice awarded the
PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for Dostoevsky's The
Brothers Karamazov and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina). They are married
and live in France.
Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
Larissa Volokhonsky, along with her husband Richard Pevear, has
translated works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gogol, Bulgakov
and Pasternak. They both were twice awarded the
PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for Dostoevsky's The
Brothers Karamazov and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina). They are married
and live in France.
Gr 7 Up-Tolstoy's novel dramatized by BBC Radio. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
Pevear and Volokhonsky, winners of the 1991 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for their version of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, have produced the first new translation of Leo Tolstoy's classic Anna Karenina in 40 years. The result should make the book accessible to a new generation of readers. In an informative introduction, Pevear gives the reader a history of the work Tolstoy called his first true novel and which took him some four years to write. Pevear explains how Tolstoy took real events, incorporated them into his novel, and went through several versions before this tale of the married Anna and her love for Count Vronsky emerged in its final form in 1876. It was during the writing of the book that Tolstoy went through a religious crisis in his life, which is reflected in this novel. The translation is easily readable and succeeds in bringing Tolstoy's masterpiece to life once again. For all libraries. Ron Ratliff, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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