A beautiful vibrant story with rich colours & words that sing right off the page This is the first picture book featuring Anna Hibiscus & she is very happy in it! So happy in fact that she can't quite decide what to do with herself!! So she turns to her grandparents her aunties her cousins Chocolate Angel & Benz her uncle Tunde & her father who each offer her a way to express her boundless joy But being around the people she loves so much only makes her happiness grow & grow; she is SO happy she is going to EXPLODE! It is her mother who finally helps her to channel her brimming happiness Sitting in her mango tree Anna sings an amazing song Amazing is Africa Amazing is Anna Hibiscus ...

Trapped in a stifling marriage Anna Karenina is swept off her feet by dashing Count Vronsky Rejected by society the two lovers flee to Italy where Anna finds herself isolated from all except the man she loves & who loves her But can they live by love alone? In this novel of astonishing scope & grandeur Leo Tolstoy the great master of Russian literature charts the course of the human heart A masterpiece of realism & illuminated by irresistible characters Anna Karenina is among the best-loved of all novels penetrating to the heart of the ruling class in Tsarist Russia This beautiful Macmillan Collector&s Library edition of Anna Karenina is translated by Aylmer & Louise Maude & features an afterword by Ned Halley Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector&s Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much loved classic titles Macmillan Collector&s Library are books to love & treasure ...

Love it means too much to me far more than you can understand At its simplest Anna Karenina is a love story It is a portrait of a beautiful & intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties
- to her marriage & to the network of relationships & moral values that bind the society around her The love affair of Anna & Vronsky is played out alongside the developing romance of Kitty & Levin & in the character of Levin closely based on Tolstoy himself the search for happiness takes on a deeper philosophical significance One of the greatest novels ever written Anna Karenina combines penetrating psychological insight with an encyclopedic depiction of Russian life in the 1870s The novel takes us from high society St Petersburg to the threshing fields on Levin&s estate with unforgettable scenes at a Moscow ballroom the skating rink a race course a railway station It creates an intricate labyrinth of connections that is profoundly satisfying & deeply moving Rosamund Bartlett&s translation conveys Tolstoy&s precision of meaning & emotional accuracy in an English version that is highly readable & stylistically faithful Like her acclaimed biography of Tolstoy it is vivid nuanced & compelling
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Love it means too much to me far more than you can understand At its simplest Anna Karenina is a love story It is a portrait of a beautiful & intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties
- to her marriage & to the network of relationships & moral values that bind the society around her The love affair of Anna & Vronsky is played out alongside the developing romance of Kitty & Levin & in the character of Levin closely based on Tolstoy himself the search for happiness takes on a deeper philosophical significance One of the greatest novels ever written Anna Karenina combines penetrating psychological insight with an encyclopedic depiction of Russian life in the 1870s The novel takes us from high society St Petersburg to the threshing fields on Levin&s estate with unforgettable scenes at a Moscow ballroom the skating rink a race course a railway station It creates an intricate labyrinth of connections that is profoundly satisfying & deeply moving Rosamund Bartlett&s translation conveys Tolstoy&s precision of meaning & emotional accuracy in an English version that is highly readable & stylistically faithful Like her acclaimed biography of Tolstoy it is vivid nuanced & compelling
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TRANSLATED BY LOUISE & AYLMER MAUDEAnna is a beautiful intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin But her story is also about a search for meaning & by twinning it with that of Levin an awkward idealist whose happy marriage & domestic trials form the backdrop for a similar quest Tolstoy creates a rich & complex masterpiece that has captured the imagination of readers for decades The Vintage Classic Russians Series Published for the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution these are must-have beautifully designed editions of six epic masterpieces that have survived controversy censorship & suppression to influence decades of thought & artistic expression ...

Tolstoy&s epic novel of love destiny & self-destruction in a gorgeous new clothbound edition from Penguin Classics Anna Karenina seems to have everything
- beauty wealth popularity & an adored son But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky Their subsequent affair scandalizes society & family alike & soon brings jealously & bitterness in its wake Contrasting with this tale of love & self-destruction is the vividly observed story of Levin a man striving to find contentment & a meaning to his life
- & also a self-portrait of Tolstoy himself This acclaimed modern translation by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky won the PEN Book of the Month Club Translation Prize in 2001 Their translation is accompanied in this edition by an introduction by Richard Pevear & a preface by John Bayley& The new & brilliantly witty translation by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky is a must&
- Lisa Appignanesi Independent Books of the Year& Pevear & Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators & vivid stylists of English & their superb rendering allows us as perhaps never before to grasp the palpability of Tolstoy&s "characters acts situations"&
- James Wood New Yorker



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Translated by Louise & Aylmer Maude Introduction & Notes by EB Greenwood University of Kent Anna Karenina is one of the most loved & memorable heroines of literature Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness & density Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form & it addresses the very nature of society at all levels- of destiny death human relationships & the irreconcilable contradictions of existence It ends tragically & there is much that evokes despair yet set beside this is an abounding joy in life&s many ephemeral pleasures & a profusion of comic relief ...

Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness & complexity set against the backdrop of Russian high society Tolstoy charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna a beautiful married woman & Count Vronsky a wealthy army officer who pursues Anna after becoming infatuated with her at a ball Although she initially resists his charms Anna eventually succumbs falling passionately in love & setting in motion a chain of events that lead to her downfall In this extraordinary novel Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters while evoking a love so strong that those who experience it are prepared to die for it ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play HANNA director Joe Wright shifts gears from action to classical literature by teaming with Oscar-winning screenwriter Tom Stoppard for this adaptation of Leo Tolstoy&s beloved novel Set in late 19th Century Russia ANNA KARENINA follows the tale of a young debutante (Keira Knightly) who questions her happiness & begins to see her life transform in ways she never thought possible Jude Law Matthew Mac Fadyen & Olivia Williams co-star in a film scored by Academy Award-winning composer Dario Marianelli (ATONEMENT) ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A Nineties adaptation of Leo Tolstoy&s 19th century romantic merry-go-round set in Moscow At its centre stands Anna Karenina (Sophie Marceau) caught between her husband (James Fox) & lover Count Vronsky (Sean Bean) When she falls pregnant she decides to dissolve her marriage & wed Vronsky but true happiness proves elusive ...