Anna Karenina (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

  • Author Leo Tolstoy
  • Narrator Tamaryn Payne
  • Publisher Random House
  • Run Time 1 day, 9 hours and 33 minutes
  • Format Audio
  • Genre Classic fiction.
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Anna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin. But her story is also about a search for meaning, and by twinning it with that of Levin, an awkward idealist whose happy marriage and domestic trials form the backdrop for a similar quest, Tolstoy creates a rich and complex masterpiece that has captured the imagination of readers for decades.

The Vintage Classic Russians Series: Published for the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, these are must-have, beautifully designed editions of six epic masterpieces that have survived controversy, censorship and suppression to influence decades of thought and artistic expression.

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Critics Review

  • One of the greatest love stories in world literature

    Vladimir Nabokov
  • Tolstoy’s historical and human sweep is breathtaking. His vision, humanity and his knowledge that love and pain are at the heart of life is the most important of all the profound truths revealed in this great novel

    Jonathan Dimbleby
  • In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy got totally inside the mind of a woman who is prepared to lose everything for the sake of man and who is so much in love that she commits suicide. I don’t like her as a woman, but I think it is a brilliant portrait, unequalled in literature

    Independent
  • I’ve read and re-read this novel and every time I find another layer in the story

    Philippa Gregory
  • I first read Anna Karenina 20 years ago when travelling across the Peruvian desert on a long bus journey, and it has stayed with me ever since

    Independent

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