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Anna Karenina (Barnes & Noble Classics)
 

Anna Karenina (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Hardcover)

by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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Lord Manleigh
  • Rated 4 stars

“For me, "Anna" is everything that "Mme. Bovary" isn't, truly tragic rather than merely exasperating. Masterful, one of the Greats.”

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Didn’t Like It

Michelle L
  • Rated 1 stars

“I read it, all 800+ pages on a bet with some of my students, and I hated every minute of it. I just could not get into it. Anna is married and has an affair with Veronsky, but her husband refuses to divorce her. She is disgraced in society. There is a subplot where Levin loves Kitty who at first loves Veronsky who disregards her for Anna. Levin throws himselfs at the problem of farming in Russia. Peasants paid poor wages refuse to use new tools/ideas to increase production which would...”

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Community:
  • Rated 4.061658 stars
Amazon:
  • Rated 4.522222 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • shareen

    shareen said:

    “I sat with the book for over two months but i had trouble getting through it and after 4 pages dedicated to Levin cutting grass i couldn't take it, so i gave it up. I feel so guilty about leaving the greatest novely ever written (arguably) half finished but figured that if i took 6 months to finish it, it would keep me away from other exciting books that i could have read. Perhaps some other time and place. ”

    posted Thursday, August 14 2008
  • John P

    john p said:

    “Been reading this book for the last three days. I picked it up because I wanted to read a classic and happened to notice that it was 'arguably the greatest novel ever written'. I'm not sure about that, but it has been a good read... although frustrating.

    I also didn't expect it to be such a 'chick flick'.”

    posted Tuesday, July 29 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
  • Selina C

    selina c said:

    “(spoiler)!throwing/jumping .. isn't it the same dif? She dies anyway...
    I thought the ending fitting..after all it's a tragic tale of adultery..how else could it have ended?”

    posted Saturday, June 21 2008
  • Ron S

    ron s said:

    “I thought 3 or 4 months was a long time, but it seems it's going to take yet another week to get through the last few pages. I liked it, but it keeps getting slower and slower. Not to mention, I spent a month in hospital in the middle of it all!”

    posted Tuesday, June 10 2008
  • Sherri S

    sherri s said:

    “I've been reading this book off and on for 3 years.... I've been having a hard time getting through it.”

    posted Sunday, June 8 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
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