Creating Anna Karenina: Tolstoy and the Birth of Literature's Most Enigmatic Heroine

by Bob Blaisdell

Book Overview

Anna Karenina is one of the most nuanced characters in world literature and we return to her, and the novel she propels, again and again. Remarkably, there has not yet been an examination of Leo Tolstoy specifically through the lens of this novel.

Critic and professor Bob Blaisdell unravels Tolstoy's family, literary, and day-to-day life during the period that he conceived, drafted, abandoned, and revised Anna Karenina. In the process,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643134620
• ISBN13: 9781643134628
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.9" x 9.1"