Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Backgrounds and Sources" includes central passages from the letters of Tolstoy and his correspondents, S. A. Tolstoy s diaries, and contemporary accounts translated by George Gibian exclusively for this Norton Critical Edition. Together these materials document Tolstoy s writing process and chronicle Anna Karenina s reception upon publication during the period 1875 77. "Criticism" unites Russian and Western interpretations to present the best canonical scholarship on Anna Karenina written between 1877 and 1994. A wide range of perspectives is provided by Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, Nikolai N. Strakhov, Matthew Arnold, M. S. Gromeka, D. S. Merezhkovsky, Boris Eikhenbaum, Henry Gifford and Raymond Williams, George Steiner, Lydia Ginzburg, Eduard Babaev, Gary Saul Morson, Caryl Emerson, Donna Tussing Orwin, and George Gibian. A Chronology of Tolstoy s life and an updated Selected Bibliography are also included. | Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Paperback | Indigo Chapters