Anna Karenina [Paperback]

Tolstoy runs two stories side by side: Anna's affair with Vronsky and its social cost, and Levin's slower search for a workable life on his estate in the countryside. At 1012 pages, this Penguin Select Classics paperback carries the complete novel, including the farming chapters, the provincial elections and the long domestic passages that the abridgements tend to trim. That breadth is the point, since the book keeps testing Anna's situation against ordinary marriages, ordinary work and ordinary faith. Railway stations, ballrooms and mown fields recur until they read almost as a structure of their own. Shelf notes: • Complete text across 1012 paperback pages • Penguin Select Classics edition • Keeps the Levin chapters and rural material intact • A frequent choice for long form reading projects and book clubs Intended for committed readers of the nineteenth century novel and for anyone working through Russian literature, published under Penguin Select Classics and available at Boipoka.