![]() Refusing to conduct a discreet affair, she scandalizes society by abandoning both her husband and her young son for Count Vronsky-with tragic consequences. A sophisticated woman who is respectably married to a government bureaucrat, Anna begins a passionate, all-consuming involvement with a rich army officer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Petersburg high society in the later half of the nineteenth century. "Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." So begins Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy's great modern novel of an adulterous affair set against the backdrop of Moscow and St. Peder Zane, published in 2007 in "The Top Ten" in Time, which declared that Anna Karenina is the "greatest novel ever written".This edition, the famous Constance Garnett translation, has been revised throughout by Leonard J. The novel is currently enjoying popularity, as demonstrated by a recent poll of 125 contemporary authors by J. His opinion was shared by Vladimir Nabokov, who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style", and by William Faulkner, who described the novel as "the best ever written". Widely regarded as a pinnacle in realist fiction, Tolstoy considered Anna Karenina his first true novel, when he came to consider War and Peace to be more than a novel.įyodor Dostoyevsky declared it to be "flawless as a work of art". Tolstoy clashed with editor Mikhail Katkov over political issues that arose in the final installment (Tolstoy's unpopular views of volunteers going to Serbia) therefore, the novel's first complete appearance was in book form. Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. ![]()
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