Their translation of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have produced acclaimed translations of works by Mikhail Bulgakov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov, and Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy wrote two great novels, War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877), as well as many short stories and essays. In 1862 he married Sofya Andreevna Behrs they had thirteen children. Petersburg and abroad before settling at Yasnaya Polyana, where he involved himself in the running of peasant schools and the emancipation of the serfs. After leaving the army in 1856 he spent time in St. He took part in the Crimean War and after the defense of Sevastopol wrote The Sevastopol Sketches (1855), which established his literary reputation. In 1851 he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus. He studied Oriental languages and law at the University of Kazan but left before completing a degree. This award-winning team's authoritative edition also includes an illuminating introduction, a list of principal characters, suggestions for further reading, and full explanatory notes.īeautiful, vigorous, and eminently readable, this Anna Karenina will be the definitive rendition for generations to come.Ĭount Leo Tolstoi was born on the family estate of Yasnaya Polyana (1828-1910) in the Tula province. While previous versions have softened the robust, and sometimes shocking, quality of Tolstoy's writing, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have produced a magnificent translation that is true to his powerful voice. One of the world's greatest novels, Anna Karenina is both an immortal drama of personal conflict and social scandal and a vivid, richly textured panorama of nineteenth-century Russia. When she meets, the dashing officer Count Vronsky she rejects her marriage and turns to him to fulfill her passionate nature-with devastating results. Winner of the PEN/BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB TRANSLATION PRIZEĪnna Karenina has beauty, social position, wealth, a husband, and an adored son, but her existence seems empty. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
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