TOLSTOY, Leo.

Anna Karenin. [Anna Karenina].

“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand": LEO TOLSTOY’S MASTERPIECE ANNA KARENINA; FINELY BOUND IN FULL CRUSHED GREEN MOROCCO BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE

London: Heinemann, 1960.

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Finely bound example of Tolstoy’s masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full crushed green morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. In fine condition.

Vladimir Nabokov proclaimed that Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina was "one of the greatest love stories in world literature." Matthew Arnold stated it was not so much a work of art as "a piece of life." Set in imperial Russia, Anna Karenina is a rich and complex meditation on passionate love and disastrous infidelity. First issued serially in 1873; first published in book form in Moscow in 1878. Upon first reading it, Dostoyevsky wrote: “Anna Karenina is sheer perfection as a work of art. No European work of fiction of our present day comes anywhere near it.”