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"God
forgive me everything!"
The following books will introduce you to Anna Karenina, who
said these words in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
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- Tolstoy, Leo. Anna
Karenina (Louise and Aylmer Maude, Trans.). Oxford
University Press, 1995.
- Compassionate portrayal of this doomed woman by
the grand-master of novelists. The Maudes'
translation has become the standard, eloquently
capturing Tolstoy's detailed yet panoramic vision
of life. The cover portrait chosen for this
World's Classics paperback seems an uncanny match
to Tolstoy's heroine, with her womanly beauty and
wistfulness.
- Thorlby, Anthony. Leo
Tolstoy: Anna Karenina (Landmarks of World
Literature). Cambridge University Press, 1988.
- Excellent guide to the novel covers the evolution
of the character in Tolstoy's creative process,
Anna's "homelessness," and the
treatment of her death, along with the book's
critical reception.
- Bayley, John. Tolstoy
and the Novel. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
- No one can beat Bayley for profound literary
observations, stated with simple grace. He knows
Anna and Tolstoy well and leaves us feeling we
know them too. Also excellent on War and
Peace.
- Leavis, F. R. Anna
Karenina and Other Essays. London: Chatto &
Windus, 1967; Random House, 1968.
- Famed critic Leavis said of Anna Karenina
"it is, surely, the European
novel."
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