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Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo
Although Anna Karenina has been described as "the European novel" by Frank Leavis, the geographical setting of the novel and, increasingly, its temporal and cultural setting, render it a foreign novel to most readers. A Karenina Companion offers a...
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Although Anna Karenina has been described as "the European novel" by Frank Leavis, the geographical setting of the novel and, increasingly, its temporal and cultural setting, render it a foreign novel to most readers. A Karenina Companion offers a wealth of information, including a great deal that has previously not been available in English, for the scholarly and literary appreciation of this great novel. Chapter 1 is a biographical introduction and Chapter 2 an examination of the way in which the novel was composed. In Chapter 3 the author brings together Tolstoi's own substantial comment Although Anna Karenina has been described as "the European novel" by Frank Leavis, the geographical setting of the novel and, increasingly, its temporal and cultural setting, render it a foreign novel to most readers. A Karenina Companion offers a wealth of information, including a great deal that has previously not been available in English, for the scholarly and literary appreciation of this great novel. Chapter 1 is a biographical introduction and Chapter 2 an examination of the way in which the novel was composed. In Chapter 3 the author brings together Tolstoi's own substantial comm
Contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1 Tolstoi's Life between the Completion of War and Peace and the Completion of Anna Karenina; CHAPTER 2 The Drafts for Anna Karenina; CHAPTER 3 Tolstoi about Anna Karenina; CHAPTER 4 A Recent Edition of Anna Karenina and its New Readings; CHAPTER 5 Tolstoi's Reading, 1869-77; CHAPTER 6 Notes to the English Text of Anna Karenina; CHAPTER 7 A Survey of Criticism and Scholarship; APPENDIX 1 English-Language Works Cited in Chapter 7; APPENDIX 2 English-Language Bibliography since 1979; Index;
