TOLSTOY, Leo.
Anna Karenin.
Anna Karenin.
A novel by Leo Tolstoy. A new and complete translation from the Russian, by Constance Garnett.
Stock Code 123130
London, William Heinemann, 1901
Garnett (1861-1946) was an important translator of Russian literature of the late nineteenth century, with her editions of works by Anton Chekov and Fyodor Dostoevsky marking their first serious appearance in English.
In 1893, Garnett made her first trip to Russia, becoming an acquaintance of Tolstoy's the following year when she visited the author at his country estate at Yasnaya Polyana, where he praised her translation of The Kingdom of God is Within You and encouraged her future work.
'In the remote countryside she witnessed the poverty and sickness of the peasantry, tempered by their intelligence and dignity. Her seven-week tour gave her valuable first-hand experience of Russian life and ways of thinking, and improved her facility with the language' (ODNB).
First Constance Garnett edition; 2 vols, 8vo (20 x 14.5 cm); black and white frontispiece to each vol. with tissue-guard, text in English, half-titles and titles to each vol., a little light spotting to prelims, occasional minor spot or mark throughout, else clean; full red morocco, covers ruled in gilt, gilt spines in 6 compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, a handsome set; [iv], 494pp, [vi], 428pp.
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