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NEW EDITION; leather-bound, hardcover, thick octavo (22.5 x 15 x 5.5 cm), pp. xii, 936. English text translated by Constance Garnett, the text edited and revised by Gustavus Spett and the translation revised by Bernard Guilbert Guerney, illustrated with lithographs by Barnett Freedman. Finely bound in full morocco gilt by Maurin (their ink pallet to front endpaper), gilt ruled and tooled covers, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, half-title, title-page vignette, colour lithograph to the beginning of each chapter, b&w illustrations in the text. Condition: FINE. A wonderful fine copy, without previous ownership markings.

Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Many authors consider Anna Karenina the greatest work of literature ever written, and Tolstoy himself called it his first true novel. It deals with themes of betrayal, faith, family, marriage, Imperial Russian society, desire, and rural vs. city life. The complex novel unfolds against the backdrop of 19th-century Russian high society and tells the tragic story of a married aristocrat and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The novel explores a diverse range of topics throughout its pages and profoundly influences the genres of realist and romantic fiction.