Anna Karenina

I'd only read this great novel in English before - I don't know Russian, unfortunately - . In my native language, I enjoyed it even more than I had before. It's one of the greatest tragic love stories ever with very complex characters. If you can read Spanish, do yourselves a favor: purchase it!

A must-read classic

The cleanest prose I've ever read. The balance between the external and internal is flawless. The characters evoke admiration and contempt at the same time - because they are immaculately portrayed. Just stellar. No lover of literature should ignore this work. It is pristine.

Excelente.

This specific translation of the text from English or Russian to Spanish is very mediocre and makes the reading of this masterpiece incredibly difficult. I was truly disappointed that I could not get past page 10 without cringing every ten seconds. The sentences are wordy when they don't need to be, the wrong conjunctions are used very often, and there are missing prepositions. If you want to read it and enjoy it, I recommend you try a different publisher.

I was shocked to see the book arrive used and dirty

Se lo regalé a mi mujer en tapa dura porque el de tapa blanda había perdido tantas páginas que era imposible de leer. El libro estaba pidiendo una muerte digna

I have been an all-time Tolstoy admirer and have almost all his short stories which never cease to amaze me with their intriguing plots and moralistic approach.Anna Karenina outstands in the crowd of classics of its age and an astonishing example of Tolstoy's brilliance at Russian Literature.In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy subtly describes the stories of mirth and miseries in families in medieval Russia.With Anna Karenina, Tolstoy robustly portrays characters of Anna, Karenin, Vronsky, Oblonsky, Dolly, Kitty, Levin, Prince and Princess Scherbatsky who have a strong influence on the flow of the story.Anna Karenina is rich with human emotions, behavior with a detailed view of characteristic approach to problems and issues in real life.Tolstoy has put significant efforts in giving a minute to minute description of mental afflictions owing to varied precarious situations in which there is so much to learn and understand and it makes you almost live the characters of Anna and Levin and Karenin and Dolly etc. They are faces of myriad human moods. Firm, Doubtful, Shaky, Confused, Happy, Envy, Jealousy, Love. Everything about them is so complex yet so riveting. So inconsistent yet so influential. I could relate to it, to all of it, all the instances of utter shock and happiness and confundedness. Because as human-beings that is what we are. We are all like Anna and share a part of her life with ours. And that is one of the reasons why the book gets you gripped head to toe that you are still stuck with the story even after a week of finishing it. It is so immensely rich with human emotions and morals that it is hard to not get into the flow.I loved the way Tolstoy has displayed classism. How easily Dolly forgives and forgets Oblonsky's adultery but which is so hell-hard for Karenin to overlook in the case of Anna. How society condemns women but not men for something that is not acceptable to the society.I loved Anna and the exquisite way she is portrayed. Tolstoy has done an astonishing work with her character.I can keep writing on and on like this. All in all, I admire Tolstoy's work more and more. And with Anna Karenina, it just cant get better than this. Having overalled, Anna Karenina is one of the greatest masterpiece works that I have ever come across. Tolstoy has penned down a stupendous classic of perfection with his literary communication in Anna Karenina.

La imagen dr la portada en pasta dura es absolutamente hermosa. Una historia clásica del maestro Tosltoy; asi que ¡No puedo esperar a leerlo!

Still reading this, as its been a hectic summer, but enjoying what I am reading. Really liking Tolstoy.