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Adults,
General Fiction,
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19th Century Love Story RussiaWritten by Leo Tolstoy
Read by Davina Porter
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 48 Kbps
Unabridged
Translated by: Constance Black Garnett
Publisher: Recorded Books
Date: December 2003
Duration: 36 hours 48 minutes
Summary:
‘Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’ This is the famous opening sentence of Tolstoi’s epic love story between Anna Arkadyevna Karenina and her Count Vronsky. Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy is a classic story of love and tragedy against the backdrop of pre-revolutionary Russia. The extravagant and dramatic story of Anna Karenina who risks everything for passion is intertwined with the quiet story of Levin (an autobiographical character) and his own quest for true love and personal fulfillment. This psychological masterpiece is considered to be one of the greatest novels of world literature.
Sample the narrator here: https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/anna-karenina/259432
About the narrator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Garnett
Constance Clara Garnett (née Black; 19 December 1861 – 17 December 1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. She was the first English translator of Dostoyevsky and Chekhov, and one of the first translators to render almost all works by Turgenev, Goncharov, Ostrovsky, Herzen, and Tolstoy into English. Altogether, she translated 71 volumes of Russian literature, many of which are still in print today.