Anna Karenina
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Anna Karenina
14.99 €
11.99 €
"Anna Karenina" - the best novel about a woman written in the XIX century. The idea of "a novel from modern life" arose in Leo Tolstoy as early as 1870. "Last night he told me - noted Sophia Andreevna Tolstoy in his diary February 24, 1870 - that he imagined the type of woman, married, from high society, but lost himself." The first chapters of "Anna Karenina" saw the light of day in 1875 in the magazine "Russky Vestnik": Tolstoy decided to present them to the public before finishing the manuscript as a whole. The publication of the novel lasted three years. The success exceeded all expectations. As one of Tolstoy's contemporaries wrote, "every chapter of "Anna Karenina" raised the whole society on the fringes, and there was no end to the crowds, raptures, and gossip, and arguments, as if it was about a question, each personally close to each". According to F. M. Dostoevsky, "Anna Karenina" struck readers "not only all-day content, but also a huge psychological development of the human soul, a terrible depth and strength". The novel is published accompanied by illustrations by the outstanding Russian artist of the twentieth century Alexander Samokhvalov; the edition includes an article by St. Petersburg State University Professor Andrei Stepanov.
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- All books in the series Russian literature. Big books