Penguin Books Australia

The official tie-in edition with the major new film from Joe Wright, starring Keira Knightley, Jude Law and Aaron Johnson, this translation has been acclaimed for its modernity and freshness, previously appearing as an Oprah Book Club selection.

Set in the years leading up to and culminating in Napoleon's disastrous Russian invasion, this classic novel focuses upon an entire society torn by conflict and change. Here is humanity in all its innocence and corruption, wisdom and folly, painful defeats and enduring triumphs. Here is the seemingly effortless artistry of a master. Here, finally, is a view of history and personal destiny that is perpetually...

'Despite the tangle of ideas in my mind . . . I was young, innocent, free, and therefore almost happy'  

Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an 'awkward mixture of fact and fiction', generations of readers have not agreed, finding the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner...

'I think our life here has meaning only when we live in accordance with the commandment to love one another'

Anna Karenina seems to have everything – beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalizes society and family alike and soon brings jealously and bitterness in its wake. Contrasting with this...