Defining the classic novel Nov 6, 2008
For instance, Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo or Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. In fact, there arent many foreign authors on the list which is later explained in a talking points section of the librarys Web site stating only English-language novels had been considered. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
Carrie Bradshaw slept on a fold-out couch Oct 3, 2008
"They found themselves in situations they wouldn't have expected and the character Janey Wilcox is a woman who is a borderline narcissist personality, which is something that I find fascinating and I think that character is a classic. "You could say Madame Bovary is that kind of character; you could say that Anna Karenina is that kind of character The difference is that those books are written by men and they never really get into the heads of those characters. You are never in there all the... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Carlos Fuentes's 'Happy Families' Oct 3, 2008
Did Tolstoy really believe the throw-down challenge with which he began "Anna Karenina". Are happy families really all alike. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
IN MY LIBRARY: PAUL SCHRADER Sep 21, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008 Last Update: 08:00 AM EDT. Last updated: 4:25 amSeptember 21, 2008 Posted: 4:03 amSeptember 21, 2008. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Roundup: Fiction, in brief Sep 12, 2008
Brave writer: Irina Ryen tackles the classic Anna Karenina ... One character is fashioned after Anna Karenina ... It takes hubris to attempt a modern version of Anna Karenina, arguably the greatest novel ever written. (USA Today -- Life)
Kid sister a serious player Aug 27, 2008
"But I tried," she says, and did read "Anna Karenina," whose heroine's serve was broken at the end. As a player who tries, Safina has few equals. (Boston Globe -- Sports)
Council on Aging Notes Jul 31, 2008
Discuss Anna Karenina. Belmont librarian Miram MacNair continues the book discussion on part three of Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy at 11 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 8. (Belmont Citizen Herald, MA)
Slate's Audio Book Club: Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoyclick to play audio Jun 5, 2008
ID3 X\TPOS TRCK 695TIT2 7 Slate's Audio Book Club: Anna Karenina, by Leo TolstoyTPE1 Slate Magazine PodcastsTALB Slate Magazine PodcastsTYER 2008TCON PodcastCOMM eng Slate's Audio Book Club. Stephen Metcalf, Troy Patterson, and Katie Roiphe discuss Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy. (Slate)
Best of times, worst of times Apr 12, 2008
MONTREAL - In perhaps one of the best-known opening sentences in world literature, Leo Tolstoy in Anna Karenina wrote that all happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. What goes for families evidently does not go for equity markets. (Asia Times Online)
Readers vote on top books Feb 20, 2008
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 49. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald 50. (Melbourne Herald Sun)
Anna Karenina: Plot Jan 30, 2008
Anna Karenina ranks among the world s most influential pieces of literature ... Countless authors such as George Bernard Shaw, Vladimir Nabokov, Orhan Pamuk, and Virginia Woolf, amongst many others, have cited Anna Karenina s importance and effect on their own work ... From the famous opening sentence, All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way , Anna Karenina is concerned with differentiating good and bad (to put it roughly) family relationships. (Suite101.com)
A life of their own Jan 26, 2008
If I refine the thought by repeating that a character at least has some essential connection to an interior life, to inwardness, is seen "from within", I am presented with the nicely opposing examples of those two adulterers, Anna Karenina and Effi Briest, the first of whom does a lot of reflection, and is seen internally as well as externally, the second of whom, in Theodor Fontane's eponymous novel, is seen almost entirely from the outside, with little space set aside for represented... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Tolstoy's tapestry sprawls across the big screen Jan 18, 2008
This year, two new English translations have hit the market (one by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose 2004 version of Anna Karenina got a huge boost from Oprah when she chose it for her book club). And the novel has been filmed six times; still another film is in the works. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
They're the greatest Jan 11, 2008
In part, because we want readers to engage in the discussion we plan to provide a forum for outraged advocates or critics, clever ripostes and tut-tutting over obvious oversights and in part because in making distinctions, we implicitly reject the postmodern view that won't allow privileging (in the fashionable term) Anna Karenina over the James Bond books though I confess I look forward to the next one, by the highly literary Sebastian Faulks. Related Articles. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Engrossed by great writers, dazzled by Tendulkar Jan 5, 2008
Before the great American writer, she found Dickens and the great Russians, Tolstoy - War And Peace and Anna Karenina - and Dostoevsky, whose Crime And Punishment slowed her walk, making it necessary to leave home a little earlier. Her joyful journey through great books brought to mind similar voyages of discovery, for example, those of Gough Whitlam, Margaret Graham, John McGahern and the Queen. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
What to buy the reader who has read everything Nov 28, 2007
Acclaimed translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky ( Anna Karenina, The Brothers Karamazov ) offer a new edition of War and Peace (Knopf, $37), bringing a poetic rhythm to the prose and capturing Tolstoy s dry humor and irony. Or discover a lost classic with The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy (NYRB Classics, $14. (Newton Tab, MA)
2 translations tackle Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' Nov 26, 2007
The team of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky became famous because of the Oprah's Book Club selection of their "Anna Karenina" in 2004, while earning snipes from academics for the stiff literalness of their many Russian translations ... " ) Of course, the truth is everyone understands and loves Natasha, and (to her mother's consternation) she loves everyone. Because the rough draft ends in 1813, Natasha suffers none of motherhood's diminishments, as in the real version's epilogue. The... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Researchers detail cancer DNA damage Nov 6, 2007
"Happy families are all the same. Unhappy families are each unhappy in their own way," he said, quoting Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina." ... (Correction: Because of a reporting error, a Page One story yesterday about cancer research gave a wrong author for the Russian novel "Anna Karenina." It was written by Leo Tolstoy. (Boston Globe)
Tierney Gearon's art is all in the family Nov 2, 2007
It's as famous a sentence as there is: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Yet if Anna Karenina had been an artist, Tolstoy would have had to add another clause: "But let's talk about me.". Part of the fascination of "Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project," which runs at the Museum of Fine Arts as part of its "Art on Film" series, is that the documentary is so firmly planted at the intersection of - maybe that should be collision between - artistic... (Boston Globe)
COLLEEN LONG shows you the best endings in literary history. In her opinion, at least. Oct 31, 2007
Best tragic ending: ``Anna Karenina,'' by Leo Tolstoy. Beautiful, smart and enchanting Anna has an affair and ends up throwing herself under a train, all because Victorian society said it was OK for a man to cheat, but not a woman. (Rensselaer Republican, IN)
The Oprah Effect Oct 23, 2007
Winfrey, who wouldn't talk to USA Today for this story, made the 800-page Russian classic Anna Karenina a best seller in 2004 just by telling her viewers to read it. Steve Ross, a professor at the University of Southern California who is writing a book about celebrity endorsements, says Winfrey could have a measurable effect. (CBS News)
Publishers weigh into War and Peace battle Oct 23, 2007
But that has not stopped their previous work from finding success, most notably a translation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina that was included on Oprah Winfrey's list of recommended reading and became a bestseller. But Pevear's suggestion that Ecco is being cavalier in its treatment of Tolstoy appears unfounded. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
War, no peace in Tolstoy translation spat Oct 23, 2007
The Paris-based duo, who are married, shot to fame in 2004, when their version of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina became a bestseller after being selected for TV talk-show host Oprah Winfrey's book club. For their latest translation, the couple remained faithful to the traditionally weighty version of Tolstoy's epic about members of Russian society dealing with the Napoleonic Wars. (CBC Ottawa)
Tolstoy's voice echoes in new 'War and Peace' translations Oct 11, 2007
Translators: Husband-and-wife team Pevear and Volokhonsky hit it big when their 2001 translation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina became a No. 1 USA TODAY best seller in 2004 after Oprah Winfrey chose it for her book club. (He's American, she's Russian; they live in Paris. (USA Today -- Life)
The Power Of Darkness Oct 9, 2007
Unfortunately, it's also more than a little heavy-handed, lacking the rich texture of Tolstoy's novels "Anna Karenina" and "War and Peace," or the glossy sheen provided in their simplistic Hollywood film versions. Not helping matters is the director's blunt English adaptation, which at times seems far too contemporary. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Fall books preview: Here's what's big and why Sep 6, 2007
In 2004, their translation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina became a No. 1 USA TODAY best seller after Oprah Winfrey chose it for her book club. Knopf's is not the only new edition of War and Peace. (USA Today)
Beautiful tapestry from ugly threads Aug 6, 2007
Married to retired academic Clifford Hospital for 42 years, she says, "There's no point [looking to my life for inspiration]. I love my husband. I'm happy. Happy isn't interesting. Unhappy is. It's like Tolstoy wrote at the beginning of Anna Karenina: 'All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way'.". A stable, happy home and family life is all that Turner Hospital has ever known. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
From famous lit to the orchestra pit Jul 23, 2007
Others have been taken from The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller and, this year, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. Brett Dean, a Queensland composer, is adapting Peter Carey's novel Bliss. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Harry Potter fans live in the real world Jul 18, 2007
Since discovering their shared interest in Harry Potter and reading in general, Jenny read Homer s The Odyssey and Sarah has plans to tackle Tolstoy s Anna Karenina. The two also share an interest in Japanese comic books. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Why TV Addiction Links to Liberalism Jun 13, 2007
The great TV critic Leo Tolstoy began Anna Karenina with the wise, unforgettable declaration: All happy families are the same, but unhappy families are different in dramatic and compelling ways ... The great TV critic Leo Tolstoy began Anna Karenina with the wise, unforgettable declaration: All happy families are the same, but unhappy families are different in dramatic and compelling ways. (Townhall.com)
Hidden treasures Jun 2, 2007
He also brought a copy of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. Tim and Kim Sweet looked through books that tell the value of collectibles. (Big Bear Grizzly, CA)
Sopranos Final Season: May 2, 2007
(Before readers chime in to remind me that Anna Karenina and Great Expectations appeared first in magazine serializations, let me point out that Tolstoy and Dickens got to decide how many installments there would be in the and in Dickens actually owned the latterand if they felt they'd botched anything in the serial they could always fix it when the novel was published in book form. . (Slate)
Master of demure Apr 29, 2007
As Leo Tolstoy famously opened Anna Karenina: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Because drama hinges on conflict, domestic bliss is inherently undramatic. "There's no real story in happiness," says Swift, 58, by phone from London. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
OPERA REVIEW Apr 29, 2007
It took David Carlson more years to compose Anna Karenina than it took Leo Tolstoy to write the 800-page novel upon which it is based ... Tolstoy's sprawling canvas of Anna Karenina's illicit affair with Count Vronsky, the residual impact on her aristocratic family circle, and Anna's subsequent tragic decline and death by her own hand seems almost impossible to synthesize ... Despite its flaws and lackluster advocacy from the pit, David Carlson's Anna Karenina has enough compelling dramatic... (The Miami Herald)
Nelson-Atkins Apr 27, 2007
Dance: Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg presents Boris Eifman s hot-blooded interpretation of Tolstoy s Anna Karenina, at City Center. . (New Yorker)
J.R.R. Tolkien lives on in new book Apr 26, 2007
Husband-and-wife translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky were living in Paris and didn't know who Oprah Winfrey was (hard to imagine) when the talk show host chose their translation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina for her book club in 2004 ... Volokhonsky, who is Russian (Pevear is American), credits Winfrey with selling a great many copies of Anna Karenina. (USA Today)
Tolstoy fires passion on the factory floor Apr 25, 2007
The monotony of rolling cigars by hand is relieved by the lector customarily hired to read books to the workers, in this instance Tolstoy's Anna Karenina ... For Conchita's impressionable young sister Marela (Christina Falsone), Anna Karenina offers a pure escape from drudgery. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Great books get their own lists Mar 6, 2007
But you will find two novels by Leo Tolstoy "Anna Karenina" and "War and Peace" and Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary," Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita," Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," William Shakespeare's play "Hamlet," F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time," Anton Chekhov's stories and George Eliot's "Middlemarch." ... These begin with the book most-often cited "Anna Karenina," which got 171 points and ends with nearly 50 that earned one... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
- Can I make up my own mind? Writers' favourite books Mar 4, 2007
The answers to this survey supply the meat of this book, in which Anna Karenina emerges as the All Time Number One Work of Literature ... Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. (Guardian Unlimited)
The kingdom of two prophetsAddMyLinkImage("/news/181_1943554,00300003.htm", "The kingdom of two prophets"); Mar 3, 2007
It is not known whether he actually went through the magnum opus War & Peace (I tried a few times and got lost in the plethora of Russian names) or Anna Karenina, his most readable novel, or collections of his short stories: He does not refer to them but only to his ideas of God, religion and society. They exchanged correspondence and Gandhiji wrote a moving obituary of the greatest novelist of the times when he died in 1910. (Hindustan Times, India)
Behind the curtain Mar 3, 2007
Did Tolstoy kill off Anna Karenina too soon ... Anna Karenina is made up of two narrative lines: Anna's (the drama of the adultery and the suicide) and Levin's (the life of a fairly happy couple) ... Others, thanks to the "story" they contain, do seem recountable (like Anna Karenina, The Idiot, The Trial) and therefore adaptable to film, to television, to theatre, to cartoon strip. (Guardian Unlimited)
Spot the fakerEver read War and Peace? A book bluffer takes on an expert Mar 2, 2007
Anyway I preferred Anna Karenina. Huw Morris, London. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Books you can't live without: the top 100 Mar 1, 2007
31 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy. 32 David Copperfield Charles Dickens. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Top authors name Anna Karenina as their favourite book Feb 24, 2007
Leo Tolstoy appeared twice in the top 20, with Anna Karenina in first place and War and Peace in third. Gustave's Flaubert's Madame Bovary was in second place, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita was fourth, and Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn fifth. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Strange but True: Males Can Lactate Feb 13, 2007
There have been countless literary descriptions of men miraculously breast-feeding, from The Talmud to Tolstoy, where, in Anna Karenina, there is a short anecdote of a baby suckling an Englishman for sustenance while on board a ship. The little anthropological evidence documented suggests it is possible. (Scientific American)
Super Bowl Sunday for a geek without bean dip Feb 11, 2007
How much better to sit serenely with a glass of wine reading "Anna Karenina" or "Great Expectations." Or listening to Bach or Mozart or the Beatles, for that matter. Or knitting, crocheting, quilting, tatting, cross-stitching or executing beadwork. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
The 10 Greatest Books of All Time Jan 16, 2007
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. (Time.com)
Civil War blood is grist for paper Jan 14, 2007
She said she loves reading and recently completed the epic Anna Karenina by Tolstoy. She said it was difficult to get through, but definitely worth it. (Madison Eagle, NJ)
FULL HIGHLIGHTS Jan 5, 2007
Graham School of General Studies Love, Vengeance and Goodness: Tolstoy s Anna Karenina 12:15 p.m. Friday, Jan. 5 Chicago Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph St. Free. This lecture is part of the First Friday Lecture Series, free public lectures offered on the first Friday of every month October through May. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Story of My Wife Jan 1, 2007
In the process, he evoked a lovingly enmeshed family it's hard not to wish you were part of -- yet whose blessings would likely have lulled the author of "Anna Karenina" to sleep. CONTINUED 1. (Washington Post)
