Tolstoy's epic novel of love destiny and self-destruction in a gorgeous new clothbound
edition from Penguin Classics. Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty wealth
popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she
encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalizes society and
family alike and soon brings jealously and bitterness in its wake. Contrasting with this tale
of love and self-destruction is the vividly observed story of Levin a man striving to find
contentment and a meaning to his life - and also a self-portrait of Tolstoy himself. This
acclaimed modern translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky won the PEN Book of the
Month Club Translation Prize in 2001. Their translation is accompanied in this edition by an
introduction by Richard Pevear and a preface by John Bayley 'The new and brilliantly witty
translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky is a must' - Lisa Appignanesi
Independent Books of the Year 'Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and
vivid stylists of English and their superb rendering allows us as perhaps never before to
grasp the palpability of Tolstoy's characters acts situations' - James Wood New Yorker
