Anna Karenina Easy Classics, Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina Easy Classics, Leo Tolstoy
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Anna Karenina (Easy Classics)

Author: Leo Tolstoy, Gemma Barder

Narrator: Dan Bottomley

Unabridged: 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/08/2021

Synopsis

An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Anna Karenina appears to have the perfect life. Young and beautiful, she lives in a fashionable house in Moscow with her respected husband and their young son. But Anna is deeply unhappy. Her older husband bores her, and she misses the lively city she grew up in. Then Count Vronsky, a dashing young officer, invites her to dance at a ball. Will Anna protect the comfortable life she has, or risk it all for forbidden love?

About Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 at Yasnaya Polyana in central Russia and educated privately. He studied Oriental languages and law at the University of Kazan, then led a life of dissipation until 1851, when he went to the Caucasus and joined an artillery regiment. He took part in the Crimean War, and on the basis of this experience wrote The Sevastopol Stories, which confirmed his tenuous reputation as a writer.

After a period in St. Petersburg and abroad, where he studied educational methods for use in his school for peasant children at Yasnaya Polyana, Tolstoy married Sofya Behrs in 1862. The next fifteen years was a period of great happiness: the couple had thirteen children, and Tolstoy managed his estates, continued his educational projects, and wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

A Confession marked a spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life; he became an extreme moralist, and in a series of pamphlets written after 1880, he expressed his rejection of state and church, indictment of the weaknesses of the flesh, and denunciation of private property. He published his last novel, Resurrection, in 1900.

Tolstoy's teaching earned him many followers at home and abroad, but also much opposition, and in 1901 he was excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church. He died in 1910.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Natalie all_books_great_and_small on May 06, 2021

I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers. Anna Karenina is an adapted version of the classic novel by Leo Tolstoy. In this version for children, it is told of the classic version but broken down in to understandable langu......more

Goodreads review by Becky on April 14, 2021

First sentence: St Petersburg in 1874 was full of the most fashionable and important people in all of Russia. One of the most respected families were the Kareninas. Alexis Karenina was a government official. His wife, Anna, ran their large home. She made sure that everything was perfect when they en......more

Goodreads review by Chandra on May 02, 2021

Anna Karenina (Easy Classics) is an adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic written by Leo Tolstoy. This book is part of the Easy Classics Epic Collection. Set in 1874, the story revolves around the Kareninas, Vronskys and Oblonskys – three important and respectable families of Russia......more

Goodreads review by nαомι on April 22, 2021

Thank you NetGalley for providing an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. I’ve always wanted to read Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and I was extremely excited to find an easy-to-read and illustrated version. Some classics are really hard to read for me and seeing the length of the origina......more

Goodreads review by Andrea on April 15, 2021

Anna Karenina (Easy Classics) as adapted by Gemma Barder initially caught my attention as I have never read the Leo Tolstoy classic, but was curious to see how it was condensed and adapted as a book for a younger audience. As an adult, I was interested to read this reshaping of the Russian classic,......more

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