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Creating Anna Karenina : Tolstoy and the birth of literature's most enigmatic heroine
- Title
- Creating Anna Karenina : Tolstoy and the birth of literature's most enigmatic heroine / Bob Blaisdell ; foreword by Boris Dralyuk.
- Author
- Blaisdell, Robert
- Publication
- New York : Pegasus Books, 2020.
- ©2020
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 21-7512 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Dralyuk, Boris
- Description
- xxiii, 389 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- "The story behind the origins of Anna Karenina and the turbulent life and times of Leo Tolstoy"--
- Anna Karenina is one of the most nuanced characters in world literature. Readers often assume that Tolstoy, a nobleman-turned-mystic would write himself into the principled Levin. But in truth, Anna's fateful suicide is the road that Tolstoy nearly traveled himself. Blaisdell unravels Tolstoy's family, literary, and day-to-day life during the period that he conceived, drafted, abandoned, and revised Anna Karenina. In the process, we see where Tolstoy's life and his art intersect in obvious and unobvious ways. -- adapted from jacket
- Alternative Title
- Tolstoy and the birth of literature's most enigmatic heroine
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-377) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Readying for "a new big labor": September 1872-March 1873 -- A very very rough rough draft: March 18, 1873-June 2, 1873 -- Summering in Samara -- Distractions and family woes: August 22-December 31, 1873 -- Anna Karenina's false start: January 1-August 14, 1874 -- For love or money?: August 15-December 31, 1874 -- Anna Karenina: the serial: January-June 1875 -- Summer, Fall, Winter, 1875 -- The serialization of Anna Karenina resumes: January-May 1876 -- From idle to full steam ahead: June-December 1876 -- The end of serialization: January-May 1877 -- Suicidal tendencies -- Finishing off: May 7, 1877-January 1878.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-7512
- ISBN
- 9781643134628
- 1643134620
- OCLC
- 1181891726
- Author
- Blaisdell, Robert, author.
- Title
- Creating Anna Karenina : Tolstoy and the birth of literature's most enigmatic heroine / Bob Blaisdell ; foreword by Boris Dralyuk.
- Publisher
- New York : Pegasus Books, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Edition
- First Pegasus books edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-377) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1533-1917
- Added Author
- Dralyuk, Boris, writer of foreword.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-7512