Anna Karenina.

by Tolstoy, Leo. [Count Lyof N Tolstoi]

$27,500 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

Moscow: T. Ris, 1878. First edition in Russian of Tolstoy's masterpiece. Octavo, 3 volumes, bound in three quarters calf, gilt titles, raised bands. Housed in a custom box. In near fine condition. First editions in Russian are rare. Vladimir Nabokov called Leo Tolstoy s Anna Karenina "one of the greatest love stories in world literature." Matthew Arnold claimed 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 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.”

• Publisher: T. Ris
• Year: 1878
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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