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Landmarks of world literature Leo Tolstoy ANNA KARENINA Landmarks of world literature General Editor: J. P. Stern Dickens: Bleak House - Graham Storey Homer: The Iliad - Michael Silk Dante: The Divine Comedy - Robin Kirkpatrick Rousseau: Confessions - Peter France Goethe: Faust. Part One - Nicholas Boyle Woolf: The Waves - Eric Warner Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther - Martin Swales Constant: Adolphe - Dennis Wood Balzac: Old Goriot - David Bellos Mann: Buddenbrooks - Hugh Ridley Garcia Mdrquez: 100 Years of Solitude - Michael Wood Homer: The Odyssey - Jasper Griffin Tolstoy: Anna Karenina - Anthony Thorlby Conrad: Nostromo - Ian Watt Camus: The Stranger - Patrick McCarthy Flaubert: Madame Bovary - Stephen Heath Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji - Richard Bowring Sterne: Tristram Shandy - Wolfgang Iser LEO TOLSTOY Anna Karenina ANTHONY THORLBY The right of the University of Cambridge to print and sell all manner of books was granted bv Henry VIII in 1534. The University has printed and published continuously since 1584. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge New York Port Chester Melbourne Sydney CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo, Delhi, Dubai, Tokyo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521313254 © Cambridge University Press 1987 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1987 Reprinted 1991 A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Thorlby, Anthony Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina. (Landmarks of world literature). Bibliography. 1. Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. Anna Karenina I. Title II. Series PG3365.A63T48 1987 891.73'3 87-15167 ISBN 978-0-521-32819-7 Hardback ISBN 978-0-521-31325-4 Paperback Transferred to digital printing 2010 Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Information regarding prices, travel timetables and other factual information given in this work are correct at the time of first printing but Cambridge University Press does not guarantee the accuracy of such information thereafter. Contents Chronology page vi Note on translations xi 1 The background to Anna Karenina 1 2 The novel The stories and their theme 11 The composition of the real 22 Beauty 40 Love 50 Married life 65 The tragedy of Anna Arkadyevna Karenina 77 Ideas and beliefs 87 3 The critical context 105 Guide to further reading 113 Chronology Tolstoy's life and publications Major literary events Important historical events 1828 28 August (old style, 9 September new style) Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy born at Yasnaya Polyana, 200 km S.W. of Moscow 1830 Mother dies Stendhal's The Red and the Black Louis Philippe constitutional king of France 1832 Constitutional monarchy in Belgium, Reform Bill in Britain 1847 Inherits Yasnaya with serfs 1848 Abortive revolutions in Europe 1850 Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' Wagner's Lohengrin 1851 Goes with brother Nikolay Tolstoy to Crystal Palace Exhibition Caucasus; serves as a volunteer in the Coup d'etat of Louis Napoleon army; writes Childhood 1852 Thackeray's Henry Esmond 1852-3 Campaigns in Caucasus; writes Dickens's Bleak House Boyhood; starts The Cossacks 1854-5 Receives commission; serves at Outbreak of Crimean War Sevastopol; writes Sevastopol Sketches and Youth 1856 Death of Dmitry Tolstoy; Two Hussars 1856-7 Flaubert's Madame Bovary 1857 Travels in France, Germany, Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal Switzerland Trollope's Barchester Towers 1857-67 Herzen's The BelP 1859 Establishes a school at Yasnaya Polyana Darwin's Origin of Species 1860-1 Visits Germany, France, Italy, England, and Belgium Death of Nikolay Tolstoy at Hyeres (October 1860) 1861 Quarrel with Turgenev Emancipation of the serfs in Russia United Kingdom of Italy proclaimed 1861-2 Briefly a local magistrate 1861-5 American Civil War 1862 Police search Yasnaya Polyana. Turgenev's Fathers and Children Marries Sofya Andreyevna Behrs; Hugo's Les Miserables Shuts school 1863-9 At Yasnaya; visits to Moscow; Writes War and Peace 1864 Goncourts's Germaine Lacerteux The First International 1866 Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment 1867 Ibsen's Peer Gynt Zola's The'rese Raquin 1869-71 Studies Schopenhauer, Greek 1870 Prussia defeats France 1871 Bad health; kumys cure in Samara. Paris Commune 1871-2 Eliot's Middlemarch 1872 Reopens school, writes ABC Book 1873-7 Writes Anna Karenina 1878 Moral crisis and conversion to a non- supernatural Christianity 1879 Writes A Confession 1879-80 Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov Meredith's The Egoist 1879-83 Theological studies 1881 Appeals to Tsar to pardon Ibsen's Ghosts Tsar Alexander II assassinated assassins of Alexander II Verga's / Malavoglia 1883 Writes What I Believe Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra 1884 What I Believe banned Huysmans's A Rebours 1885 Founds The Intermediary to supply Zola's Germinal reading matter for peasants; writes parable stories, 'Ivan the Fool', 'Two Old Men', 'Does a Man Need Much Earth?' 1886 What Then Must We Do? Death of Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge Ivan Ilyich (story) 1886-7 Galdos's Fortunata y Jacinta 1887 On Life, Tolstoyan communities Strindberg's The Father 1887, 1897 Jubilees of Queen Victoria formed 1888 Strindberg's Miss Julie 1889 The Kreutzer Sonata (story) Fabian Essays in Socialism 1891 Renounces his copyrights and divides Hardy's Tess of the d*Urbervilles property among family 1891-2 Undertakes famine relief 1893 The Kingdom of God is Within You 1894 Christianity and Patriotism, Reason Kipling's The Jungle Book and Religion, Religion and Morality D'Annunzio's The Triumph of Death 1894- 1904 Dreyfus Affair in France 1895 Death of son Ivan. Appeals for Wilde's The Importance of Being Dukhobors Ernest Master and man (story) Fontane's Effi Briest 1896 How to Read the Gospels Chekhov's The Seagull Proust's Les Plaisirs et les jours 1898 What is Art? 1899 Finishes novel, Resurrection 1900 The Slavery of our Times 1901 Virtual excommunication by Holy Mann's Buddenbrooks Synod, Reply to the Synod*s Edict; illness; taken to Yalta 1902 What is Religion? Gorky's The Lower Depths Conrad's Youth ('Heart of Darkness') 1903 James's The Ambassadors 1904 Bethink Yourselves! (against war) Outbreak of Russo-Japanese War
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