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  • Published: 1 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9781445826011
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 3 hr 30 min
  • Narrator: Toby Stephens
  • RRP: $13.99

Anna Karenina




Tolstoy's story of one woman's fate is brought powerfully to life in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation starring Teresa Gallagher and Toby Stephens.

Anna Karenina enjoys a privileged and aristrocratic lifestyle as the wife of influential government official Alexy Karenin. Yet their ten-year marriage is devoid of tenderness, and when Anna falls in love with the handsome Count Vronsky they embark upon a deep and passionate affair. Reflecting the social conditions of the era in which it was written, Tolstoy's masterpiece sets a doomed love story against a harsh and unforgiving backdrop.

  • Published: 1 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9781445826011
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 3 hr 30 min
  • Narrator: Toby Stephens
  • RRP: $13.99

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About the author

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was born in central Russia on 9 September 1828. In 1852 he published his first work, the autobiographical Childhood. He served in the army during the Crimean War and his Sevastopol Sketches (1855-6) are based on his experiences. His two most popular masterpieces are War and Peace (1864-69) and Anna Karenina (1875-8). He died in 1910.

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