Anna Karenina (Wordsworth Classics)
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Review One of the greatest love stories in world literature. --Vladimir Nabokov Read more From the Back Cover A famous legend surrounding the creation of Anna Karenina tells us that Tolstoy began writing a cautionary tale about adultery and ended up by falling in love with his magnificent heroine. It is rare to find a reader of the book who doesn't experience the same kind of emotional upheaval: Anna Karenina is filled with major and minor characters who exist in their own right and fully embody their mid-nineteenth-century Russian milieu, but it still belongs entirely to the woman whose name it bears, whose portrait is one of the truest ever made by a writer. Read more About the Author The Modern Library 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 been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editions of important works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torch-bearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inaugurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices.From the Hardcover edition. Read more
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It has already been said in another review but I want to repeat it-horrible edition. The typos are just infuriating. You're happily reading along and then you read- "she jonged for. . . ." Longed. Longed. longed for god's sake! The other thing I hate about O.U.D books are the footnotes. One footnote actually gave away part of the plot. Argh! In edition some of them just tell you idiotic information that either you should know or you don't need to know. Do not buy O.U.D.