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Books : Anna Karenina: BBC (BBC Radio Presents)In association with Amazon.comby: Leo Tolstoy  List Price: $18.00 Price: $10.00 You Save: $8.00 (44%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.4472 EAN: 9780553525595 Format: Abridged, Audiobook ISBN: 055352559X Label: Random House Audio Manufacturer: Random House Audio Number Of Items: 4 Publication Date: February 02, 1999 Publisher: Random House Audio Release Date: February 02, 1999 Studio: Random House Audio Sales Rank: 1619878 Accessories: Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, Anna Karenina is the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Tolstoy's masterful novel is one of the greatest works of world literature...it is a novel of social realism that perfectly bares the Russian soul, set against the fascinating panorama of life in nineteenth-century Russia. With a full-cast and stirring music, this compelling story of one woman's fate is brought to life in this powerful BBC production. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - An amazing novelAnna Karenina. She was an amazing woman. But no less amazing than the other characters in the novel. Tolstoy was a brilliant man and writer. He knows how to blend plot and thought like few others. After reading his novels, I am convinced that he was a keen observer of human nature and interactions. I believe he must have spent hours reflecting on why people act in the way they do. And the result, clear and penetrating novels on the human experience. I highly recommend this novel. ... Read More Rating: - Lovely Classical LiteratureI have read all of Tolstoy's works and though I love them all, Anna Karenina is my most treasured. I have read this book atleast a dozen times and never get tired of reading it. I love how high society is always portrayed in Tolstoy's works as "naughty" (wink). But mostly I fall in love with the tragic heroine, torn between the love of her only son and her adulterous lover. Her affair in the end consumes her, and Anna's life takes a tragic turn. A story that stands up to the test of time. Rating: - both timeless and of its eraMany themes of Anna Karenina are timeless: marriage, infidelity, the roles of men and women, personal fulfillment, honor, spirituality, and naturalism. If that isn't enough, then Tolstoy offers an 18th-century look at Russian society and culture, still well before the run-up to the revolution. Don't look to Tolstoy for enlightened feminism, although one of the characters argues for education and equality for women, and one of the minor threads relates to the status of peasants. Tolstoy ... Read More Rating: - Sometimes it's great to be a putz ...I'm probably one of the very few people who read this classic without having a clue as to the ending (no, never saw the movie--still haven't) ... so it was a genuine surprise and it rocked me. The opening line is a killer ... nothing else like it in all of literature. Although I prefer Dostoevsky to Tolstoy, this is a genuine masterpiece. Rating:  - I really like this book, but...It's really hard to understand sometimes! Anna Karenina is the famous Tolstoy tale of a wife who has an affair. At first, I wanted to quit it was such a difficult read, but once I got through it, I loved it. I have to say, I thought Kitty and Levin's relationship was really cute, especially when they finally kissed! I was super-sad when Anna killed herself, it just sucked that was so sorrowful that she felt the need to die. I didn't really like Vronsky, he seemed sort of like a jerk who just lost interest ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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