Anna Karenina /

By: Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910Contributor(s): Maude, Aylmer, 1858-1938 | Maude, Louise Shanks, 1855-1939Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Russian Series: Oxford world's classicsPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008Edition: [New ed.] / with an introduction and notes by W. Gareth JonesDescription: xxxiv, 831 p. ; 20 cmISBN: 9780199536061 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Married women -- Fiction | Russia -- Social conditions -- FictionGenre/Form: Classics.DDC classification: 891.733 LOC classification: PG3365Summary: 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.
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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.