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PENGUIN CLASSICS ANNA KARENINA ENGLISH EDITIO...

Leo Tolstoy (Author)   Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Tula province. He studied at the
University of Kazan  then led a life of pleasure until 1851 when he joined an artillery
regiment in the Caucasus. He established his reputation as a writer with The Sebastopol
Sketches (1855-6). After a period in St Petersburg and abroad  he married  had thirteen
children  managed his vast estates in the Volga Steppes and wrote War and Peace (1869) and Anna
Karenina (1877). A Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life  and in 1901 he
was excommuincated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in 1910  in the course of a dramatic
flight from home  at the railway station of Astapovo.   Richard Pevear (Introducer  Translator)
Richard Pevear  along with his wife Larissa Volokhonsky  has translated works by Tolstoy 
Dostoevsky  Chekhov  Gogol  Bulgakov and Pasternak. They both were twice awarded the PEN
Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and Tolstoy's
Anna Karenina ). They are married and live in France.   Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)  
Larissa Volokhonsky  along with her husband Richard Pevear  has translated works by Tolstoy 
Dostoevsky  Chekhov  Gogol  Bulgakov and Pasternak. They both were twice awarded the PEN
Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and Tolstoy's
Anna Karenina ). They are married and live in France.

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