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Everything was in confusion in the oblonskys house. The brothers karamazov is the final novel by the russian author fyodor dostoevsky, and is generally considered the culmination of his lifes work. Anna karenina by leo tolstoy, john bayley, richard pevear. Fyodor dostoyevsky, maire jaanus, constance garnett. This translation by richard pevear and larissa volokhonsky has been acclaimed as the definitive english version of tolstoys masterpiece. When she refuses to conduct the discreet affair that her cold, ambitious husband and russian high society would. Described by william faulkner as the best novel ever written and by fyodor dostoevsky as flawless, anna karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious anna and the dashing officer, count vronsky. Considering, then, the novel as epic prose, we must analyze its temper by contrasting tolstoy with homer, rather than his contemporaries like flaubert or james. Anna awakes from a loveless marriage to find herself drawn irresistibly to the dashing cavalry officer, count vronsky. Richard pevear, along with his wife larissa volokhonsky, has translated works by tolstoy, dostoevsky, chekhov, gogol, bulgakov and pasternak.
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