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Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
by Leo Tolstoy
from Penguin Classics

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Too wordy-
  I do think the story line is good. However it is way too wordy. The words were beautifully written but I tired of them & it was boring because of it. I am a quick reader but I had a hard time pushing thru it.

• I didn't like this book.
  I won't say "Don't purchase this book," because different people have different tastes. This wasn't my taste. I read this right after reading "Pride and Prejudice," and the period and focus on class and society has me fatigued.
  I appreciate the treatment of important axiological and theoretical issues in the piece by Tolstoy. He discusses social science, philosophy, politics, economics, religion. In that sense, the book was a feast for me. And he treated as many perspectives in which he was versed with... more info

• "Anna Karenina" Leo Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
  An excellent new translation of the Tolstoy classic; Pevear and Volokhonsky have given the novel a fresh, new feeling. I have read other translations several times in the past, but reading this version was a rediscovery of a Tolstoy novel that explores the many facets of love among the Russian artistocracy.

• Requires patience
  How can anyone argue with Virginia Woolf, who believed that Tolstoy was one of the world's greatest novelists?
  I agree with her in part. Anna K is a significant work of art. But, with all due respect to Tolstoy, it's too long to be a "novel". Anna K was actually written and published in small installments for a magazine, over a 4 year period. It is meant to be digested as small savory morels, over a long period of time. So, if you think that you are going to finish this in a few days or even weeks,... more info

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