Anna Karenina -- Leo Tolstoy

Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, <i>Anna Karenina</i> is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer. Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, and in doing so captures a breathtaking tapestry of late-nineteenth-century Russian society. As Matthew Arnold wrote in his celebrated essay on Tolstoy, "We are not to take <i>Anna Karenina</i> as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life."<br><br><b>Author:</b> Leo Tolstoy<br><b>Publisher:</b> Modern Library<br><b>Published:</b> 10/10/2000<br><b>Pages:</b> 976<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 1.15lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.60d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780679783305<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 9.6<br><b>Point Value:</b> 69<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>702 / Anna Karenina<br><br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>The Modern Library</b> has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has