The Anna Karenina Fix

Author : Viv Groskop
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683353447
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anna Karenina Fix written by Viv Groskop and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In this hilarious, candid, and thought-provoking memoir, [Groskop] explains how she used lessons from Russian classics to understand herself better.” —Gretchen Rubin, #1 New York Times–bestselling author As Viv Groskop knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened to a person has already happened in the Russian classics: from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina), to being hopelessly in love with someone who doesn’t love you back (Turgenev’s A Month in the Country), or being socially anxious about your appearance (all of Chekhov’s work). In The Anna Karenina Fix, a sort of literary self-help memoir, Groskop mines these and other works, as well as the lives of their celebrated creators, and her own experiences as a student of Russian, to answer the question “How should you live your life?” This is a charming and fiercely intelligent book, a love letter to Russian literature and an exploration of the answers these writers found to life’s questions. “[Groskop is] a delight, a reader’s reader whose professional and personal experiences have allowed her to write the kind of book that not only is complete unto itself, but makes you want to head to the library and revisit or discover the great works she loves.” —The Washington Post “Learn how to hack life nineteenth-century Russian style! You’ll totally be like Anna Karenina without getting (spoiler alert) run over by a train!” —Gary Shteyngart, New York Times-bestselling author “For anyone intimidated by Russia’s daunting literary heritage, this humorous yet thoughtful introduction will serve as the perfect entrée.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 922 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anna Karenina written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leo Tolstoy’s classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature. Generations of readers have been enthralled by his magnificent heroine, the unhappily married Anna Karenina, and her tragic affair with dashing Count Vronsky.

Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1613102968
Total Pages : 1501 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anna Karenina written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 1501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abstracts of Free Communications written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0345803922
Total Pages : 978 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anna Karenina written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude originally published in 1918.

Author : Viv Groskop
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683357973
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Au Revoir, Tristesse written by Viv Groskop and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Groskop skillfully juggles memoir, biography, philosophy, and literary criticism to create a delightful tour through some of French literature’s greats.” —Madeline Miller, New York Times–bestselling author Like many people the world over, Viv Groskop wishes she was a little more French. A writer, comedian, and journalist, Groskop studied the language obsessively starting at age 11, and spent every vacation in France, desperate to escape her Englishness and to have some French chic rub off on her. In Au Revoir, Tristesse, Groskop mixes literary history and memoir to explore how the classics of French literature can infuse our lives with joie de vivre and teach us how to say goodbye to sadness. From the frothy hedonism of Colette and the wit of Cyrano de Bergerac to the intoxicating universe of Marguerite Duras and the heady passions of Les Liaisons dangereuses, this is a love letter to great French writers. With chapters on Marcel Proust, Victor Hugo, Gustave Flaubert, Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Albert Camus, and of course Françoise Sagan, this is a delectable read for book lovers everywhere. “Ms. Groskop is a skilled raconteuse who brings people—and the page—to life. She writes with a self-deprecating appreciation of the Frenchman or -woman manqué(e) that lurks in us all. You don’t have to be a savant to enjoy this book . . . Au Revoir, Tristesse will make a witty, seductive companion.” —The Wall Street Journal “Groskop’s combination of her own memories, what the novels meant to her at different stages in her life, her description of the authors, along with her description of the novels, will have readers eagerly turning the book’s pages.” —Forbes

Author : Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331599046
Total Pages : 1046 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anna Karenina written by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Anna Karenina: A Novel Most unpleasant of all was the first minute when, on coming, happy and good-humored, from the theatre, with a huge pear in his hand for his wife; he had not found his wife in the drawing-room, to his surprise had not found her in the study either, and saw her at last in her bedroom with the unlucky letter that revealed everything in her hand. She, his Dolly, forever fussing and worrying over household details, and limited in her ideas, as he considered, was sitting perfectly still with the letter in her hand, looking at him with an expression of horror, despair, and indignation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Allan Lane
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anna Karenina written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by Allan Lane. This book was released on 2000 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society around her. The love affair of Anna and Vronsky is played out alongside the developing romance of Kitty and Levin, and in the character of Levin, closely based on Tolstoy himself, the search for happiness takes on a deeper philosophical significance. One of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Karenina combines penetrating psychological insight with an encyclopedic depiction of Russian life in the 1870s. The novel takes us from high society St Petersburg to the threshing fields on Levin's estate, with unforgettable scenes at a Moscow ballroom, the skating rink, a race course, a railway station. It creates an intricate labyrinth of connections that is profoundly satisfying, and deeply moving. Rosamund Bartlett's new translation conveys Tolstoy's precision of meaning and emotional accuracy in an English version that is highly readable and stylistically faithful. Like her acclaimed biography of Tolstoy, it is vivid, nuanced, and compelling.

Author : Anthony Thorlby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521313254
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tolstoy: Anna Karenina written by Anthony Thorlby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-11-26 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close reading of this classic novel that explores the subtle psychology in Tolstoy's characterisation.

Author : Lynn Ellen Patyk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Funny Dostoevsky written by Lynn Ellen Patyk and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tapping into the emergence of scholarly comedy studies since the 2000s, this collection brings new perspectives to bear on the Dostoevskian light side. Funny Dostoevksy demonstrates how and why Dostoevsky is one of the most humorous 19th-century authors, even as he plumbs the depths of the human psyche and the darkest facets of European modernity. The authors go beyond the more traditional categories of humor, such as satire, parody, and the carnivalesque, to apply unique lenses to their readings of Dostoevsky. These include cinematic slapstick and the body in Crime and Punishment, the affective turn and hilarious (and deadly) impatience in Demons, and ontological jokes in Notes from Underground and The Idiot. The authors – (coincidentally?) all women, including some of the most established scholars in the field alongside up-and-comers – address gender and the marginalization of comedy, culminating in a chapter on Dostoevsky's "funny and furious" women, and explore the intersections of gender and humor in literary and culture studies. Funny Dostoevksy applies some of the latest findings on humor and laughter to his writing, while comparative chapters bring Dostoevsky's humor into conjunction with other popular works, such as Chaplin's Modern Times and Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton. Written with a verve and wit that Dostoevsky would appreciate, this boldly original volume illuminates how humor and comedy in his works operate as vehicles of deconstruction, pleasure, play, and transcendence.