Anna Karenina (Louise Maude's Translation)

Anna Karenina, in Louise Maude's lucid and historically influential translation, is Tolstoy's vast anatomy of love, marriage, family, and moral responsibility in imperial Russia. Centering on Anna's adulterous passion for Vronsky and Levin's searching movement toward ethical and spiritual clarity, the novel interweaves domestic drama, social satire, agricultural debate, and philosophical inquiry. Its realism is capacious and exacting: interior consciousness, minute social observation, and symbo ...