Anna Karenina , by Leo Tolstoy , is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics :
All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Vladimir Nabokov called Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina one of the greatest love stories in world literature.” Matthew Arnold claimed it was not so much a work of art as a piece of life.” Set in imperial Russia, Anna Karenina is a rich and complex meditation on passionate love and disastrous infidelity.
Married to a powerful government minister, Anna Karenina is a beautiful woman who falls deeply in love with a wealthy army officer, the elegant Count Vronsky. Desperate to find truth and meaning in her life, she rashly defies the conventions of Russian society and leaves her husband and son to live with her lover. Condemned and ostracized by her peers and prone to fits of jealousy that alienate Vronsky, Anna finds herself unable to escape an increasingly hopeless situation.
Set against this tragic affair is the story of Konstantin Levin, a melancholy landowner whom Tolstoy based largely on himself. While Anna looks for happiness through love, Levin embarks on his own search for spiritual fulfillment through marriage, family, and hard work. Surrounding these two central plot threads are dozens of characters whom Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together, creating a breathtaking tapestry of nineteenth-century Russian society.
From its famous opening sentenceHappy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”to its stunningly tragic conclusion, this enduring tale of marriage and adultery plumbs the very depths of the human soul.
0in 0in 0pt"> Amy Mandelker , Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is the author of Framing Anna Karenina: Tolstoy, the Woman Question, and the Victorian Novel and coeditor of Approaches to Teaching Anna Karenina .
列夫·托尔斯泰(1828~1910),俄罗斯文学大师。他以自己一生的辛勤创作,登上了当时欧洲批判现实主义文学的高峰,在世界文学中占有重要的地位。他描绘了俄罗斯民众广阔的生活场景,被称为“俄国革命的一面镜子”。代表作为《战争与和平》《安娜·卡列尼娜》和《复活》。
草婴,原名盛峻峰,著名学者、翻译家。草婴先生系统地翻译了列夫·托尔斯泰全部小说作品,包括三个长篇(《战争与和平》《安娜·卡列尼娜》和《复活》)、六十多个中短篇和自传体小说。
安娜临死之前的心理独白,堪称十九世纪最精彩的心理描写,很难想象托尔斯泰在写这些段落时处于怎样的状态。记述下这些句子的人仿佛是安娜自己,如果把安娜自杀的部分作为全篇小说的高潮的话,那站在这最高点上俯瞰的不是托尔斯泰,而是死神。 死亡的阴影,一直笼罩着整...
评分安娜临死之前的心理独白,堪称十九世纪最精彩的心理描写,很难想象托尔斯泰在写这些段落时处于怎样的状态。记述下这些句子的人仿佛是安娜自己,如果把安娜自杀的部分作为全篇小说的高潮的话,那站在这最高点上俯瞰的不是托尔斯泰,而是死神。 死亡的阴影,一直笼罩着整...
评分本作的男角没有什么可说。列文虽然处处碰壁,但在小说里仍然是主宰一切的神,他矛盾的心理只要略微往某一方面发展,就可以变成奥布隆斯基、卡列宁或者弗龙斯基。换句话说只有列文是活着的,仍然游移变幻着,其他所有的男主角都是列文貌合神离的分身,都是具象化定型了的人,等...
评分我坦白,自己这个网名是来自两个安娜的启发。 一个是大名鼎鼎的卡列宁夫人,一个是契诃夫《脖子上的安娜》里面没有前者出名的安纽达。 两个安娜,就是女人的两种选择。 一个要为了自由和爱情而赴死,一个为了富贵享乐而在现实里堕落,一个死了,一个要活下去。 其实她们都是...
评分本作的男角没有什么可说。列文虽然处处碰壁,但在小说里仍然是主宰一切的神,他矛盾的心理只要略微往某一方面发展,就可以变成奥布隆斯基、卡列宁或者弗龙斯基。换句话说只有列文是活着的,仍然游移变幻着,其他所有的男主角都是列文貌合神离的分身,都是具象化定型了的人,等...
喜欢这本胜过战争与和平。
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评分喜欢这本胜过战争与和平。
评分喜欢这本胜过战争与和平。
评分喜欢这本胜过战争与和平。