This Second Norton Critical Edition of Leo Tolstoy’s epic novel is again based on the Louise and Aylmer Maude translation (originally published in 1918; revised with notes in 1939), which has never been surpassed.
A wide range of perspectives is provided by Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, Nikolai N. Strakhov, Matthew Arnold, M. S. Gromeka, D. S. Merezhkovsky, Boris Eikhenbaum, Henry Gifford and Raymond Williams, George Steiner, Lydia Ginzburg, Eduard Babaev, Gary Saul Morson, Caryl Emerson, Donna Tussing Orwin, and George Gibian.
A Chronology of Tolstoy’s life and an updated Selected Bibliography are also included.
Preface
List of the Principal Characters
List of Russian Words
The Text of Anna Karenina
Backgrounds and Sources
Publication History of Anna Karenina
Extracts from Letters, Diaries, and Newspapers
Criticism
Fyodor M. Dostoevsky ? [The Russian View of Human Guilt and Crime]
Nikolai N. Strakhov ? [Levin and Social Chaos]
Matthew Arnold ? [Anna Karenina as Life, Not Literature]
M. S. Gromeka ? [The Epigraph and the Meaning of the Novel]
D. S. Merezhkovsky ? [Tolstoy’s Physical Descriptions]
Boris Eikhenbaum ? [Anna Karenina and the Literary Tradition] ? [The Coposition of Anna Karenina: Its Russian and Western Antecedents] ? [The Puzzle of the Epigraph, N. Schopenhauer]
Henry Gifford and Raymond Williams ? [D. H. Lawrence and Tolstoy: A Critical Debate]
Henry Gifford: Anna, Lawrence, and "The Law"
Raymond Williams: Lawrence and Tolstoy
Henry Gifford: Further Notes on Anna Karenina
George Steiner ? [The Beginning of Anna Karenina] ? [The Ending of Anna Karenina]
George Gibian ? Two Kinds of Human Understanding and the Narrator’s Voice in Anna Karenina
Lydia Ginzburg ? Casual Conditionality
Eduard Babev ? The Tale of Three Portraits
Gary Saul Moson ? Anna Karenina’s Omens
Caryl Emerson ? [Is Tolstoy Monologic?]
Donna Tussing Orwin ? [Children and Peasants in Anna Karenina: From Nature to Culture] ? [Moral Freedom: Schopenhauer and Levin]
Leo Tolstoy: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography
