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  • Published: 6 June 2003
  • ISBN: 9780141902838
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 864

Anna Karenina




'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies

Acclaimed by many as the world's greatest novel, this is the story of a wife, Anna Karenina, who abandons her empty existence as the wife of a Petersburg government minister for a passionate relationship with a young officer, Count Vronsky.

  • Published: 6 June 2003
  • ISBN: 9780141902838
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 864

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About the author

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Tula province. He studied at the University of Kazan, then led a life of pleasure until 1851 when he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus. He established his reputation as a writer with The Sebastopol Sketches (1855-6). After a period in St Petersburg and abroad, he married, had thirteen children, managed his vast estates in the Volga Steppes and wrote War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). A Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life, and in 1901 he was excommuincated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in 1910, in the course of a dramatic flight from home, at the railway station of Astapovo.

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