Anna Karenina

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A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the richly romantic Russian classic with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

From the rich, dark and complex world of Russian high society, a doomed love affair blooms. Anna is beautiful, intelligent – and married. Count Vronsky is a wealthy army officer who pursues her after their meeting at a ball. At first Anna resists his charms, but when she falls passionately in love with Vronsky she will set in motion a catastrophic chain of events. Tolstoy weaves together dozens of lives around the story of a couple prepared to risk everything for love.

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'One of the greatest love stories in world literature'
Vladimir Nabokov

About Leo Tolstoy

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.

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