Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
1899 · 1084 pages
- Author
- Leo Tolstoy
- Edition
- Translated by Nathan Haskell Dole; revised translation, illustrated, three volumes bound in one scan
- Published
- New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1899
- Pages
- 1084
- File
- DjVu, 71.8 MB
- Text search
- yes
- Rights
- public domain
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About the book
Anna Karenina is Leo Tolstoy’s second great novel. It first appeared in instalments in the Russian Messenger between 1875 and 1877 and came out as a book in 1878. Two stories run side by side: Anna, the wife of a senior St Petersburg official, falls in love with the cavalry officer Count Vronsky and gives up her place in society for him, while the landowner Konstantin Levin courts Kitty Shcherbatskaya and searches, on his estate and in his marriage, for a reason to live.
Its famous opening line about happy and unhappy families sets the theme of a book that follows marriage, jealousy, faith, farming and death across Moscow, St Petersburg and the Russian countryside. Many readers and writers rank it among the finest novels ever written.
Nathan Haskell Dole first published his translation in 1886, one of the earliest in English. For this edition he revised and largely rewrote it, restoring passages that had been left out.
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About this edition
Nathan Haskell Dole’s translation as published in New York by Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, copyright 1899; the title page itself carries no date. The scan joins the three volumes of the set, each with its own pagination and half-title, and includes Dole’s introduction, a list of the chief characters and illustrations, among them drawings by E. Boyd Smith. The file has a searchable text layer, and the text has been proofread on Wikisource.
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Source
A scan from the Wikimedia Foundation's open projects. The book is in the public domain: free to read, download and share.