Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.

Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy ; translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. - [New ed.] / with an introduction and notes by W. Gareth Jones. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008. - xxxiv, 831 p. ; 20 cm. - Oxford world's classics .

This ed. of this translation originally published: 1995.

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxix-xxx).

In 1872 the mistress of a neighbouring landowner threw herself under a train at a station near Tolstoy's home. This gave Tolstoy the starting-point he needed for composing this novel, which many believe to be the greatest novel ever written.


Translated from the Russian.

9780199536061 (pbk.) : �7.99


Married women--Fiction.


Russia--Social conditions--Fiction.


Classics.

PG3365

891.733