ANNA KARENINA
First edition in English of Tolstoy's immense panoramic novel of love and trains.
Very good plus.
Price: $3,500.00
ANNA KARENINA
"Tolstoy is the greatest Russian writer of prose fiction." — Vladimir Nabokov
One of the great works of the 19th century, ANNA KARENINA altered the development of the modern novel and has inspired later writers to greater and greater heights of praise since it first appeared: it was Faulkner's choice for the greatest novel ever written, and even the very exacting Nabokov allowed that it was "one of the greatest love stories in world literature." As for its influence: "Practically every scene in Anna Karenina is branded on me," wrote Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West; "THAT is the origin of our discontent. After that of course we had to break away."
Read more: Nabokov, Lectures on Russian Literature; Hugh McLean, "Which English Anna?".
The Object
First US edition. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, (1886). 7.5'' x 5''. Original gilt-lettered brown cloth. Floral patterned endpapers. No mention of other titles by Tolstoy. Publisher's ads at rear beginning with "Crowell's Red Line Poets." 773, [1] pages, [5], [1] pages. Bookplate of Louisa Porter [Gilmer] Minis mounted to front paste-down; her name in ink to title page, dated 1886. Some rubbing and edgewear to cloth, slight spine lean. Occasional minor foxing.
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