Anna Karenina
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publication of this exacting new translation of Tolstoy’s great Anna signifies a literary event of the first magnitude,,Tolstoy produced many drafts of Anna Karenina. Crafting and recrafting each sentence with careful intent, he was anything but casual in his use of language. His project, translator Marian Schwartz observes, “was to bend language to his will, as an instrume….Read More
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