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by Leo Tolstoy | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: Global Overview for this book
ISBN: Global Overview for this book
3 journalers for this copy...
Not in the best of shape. Up for grabs
received in the mail yesterday from Saphyre.. thanks!
From the back of the book:
Tolstoy's genius for viewing social classes in the largest possible context and for sketching the subtlest human gestures becomes most evident in Anna Karenina. To this novel he brought his troubling conviction that at his moments of most intense experience Man is closest to Death. This is the double drama of Anna and of Levin. Sensual, rebellious, Anna renounces respectable marriage and fine position for a passionate involvement which offers a taste of freedom and a trap for destruction. Levin, an eccentric and melancholy young nobleman, surrenders his individuality to live as a peasant.
reserved for teenage-faerie from Tennessee as part of my 50 state challange!
From the back of the book:
Tolstoy's genius for viewing social classes in the largest possible context and for sketching the subtlest human gestures becomes most evident in Anna Karenina. To this novel he brought his troubling conviction that at his moments of most intense experience Man is closest to Death. This is the double drama of Anna and of Levin. Sensual, rebellious, Anna renounces respectable marriage and fine position for a passionate involvement which offers a taste of freedom and a trap for destruction. Levin, an eccentric and melancholy young nobleman, surrenders his individuality to live as a peasant.
reserved for teenage-faerie from Tennessee as part of my 50 state challange!
I know this is supposed to be one of the classics, a must read for everyone, but I just can't get into it :(
I tried several times to read this book, and I can't seem to get past part one, about page 130! Maybe I will try to read this again at another time in my life, but with my college classes and everything right now it just seems too much for me.
I'm going to pass this on to teenage-faerie for now, and hope she is able to enjoy it!
I tried several times to read this book, and I can't seem to get past part one, about page 130! Maybe I will try to read this again at another time in my life, but with my college classes and everything right now it just seems too much for me.
I'm going to pass this on to teenage-faerie for now, and hope she is able to enjoy it!
thanks for sending this on to me! this is a long one so i wont be able to read it right away. but i'll try not to take forever with it!
