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2 Formats: Library CD
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2 Formats: MP3 CD
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ISBN: 9781665012706
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ISBN: 9798212003056
| Runtime: | 36.74 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Thus begins Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece. Tolstoy’s own spiritual crisis and his search for the meaning of life are deeply felt throughout this powerful tale about the growth and death of love. The touching picture of Anna Aarkadyevna Karenina’s slow disintegration has fascinated readers for well over a century.
Beautiful and charming, Anna lives in a splendid world of her own making. She smokes, rides horseback, plays tennis, takes opium, practices birth control, and—although she is already married—falls in love with a handsome army officer. Anna’s life is played out against a backdrop of dazzling balls and the vastness of the Russian landscape.
A magnificent story that shimmers with intelligence and passion, Anna Karenina is one of the most extraordinary novels ever written.
Author
Author Bio: Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) was born about two hundred miles from Moscow. His mother died when he was two, his father when he was nine. His parents were of noble birth, and Tolstoy remained acutely aware of his aristocratic roots, even when he later embraced doctrines of equality and the brotherhood of man. After serving in the army in the Caucasus and Crimea, where he wrote his first stories, he traveled and studied educational theories. In 1862 he married Sophia Behrs and for the next fifteen years lived a tranquil, productive life, finishing War and Peace in 1869 and Anna Karenina in 1877. In 1879 he underwent a spiritual crisis; he sought to propagate his beliefs on faith, morality, and nonviolence, writing mostly parables, tracts, and morality plays. Tolstoy died of pneumonia in 1910 at the age of eighty-two.
Details
Details
| Available Formats : | Library CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Runtime: | 36.74 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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