Anna Karenina (Audio book)

Informationen zum Autor Leo Tolstoy was born in central Russia on 9 September 1828. In 1852 he published his first work, the autobiographical Childhood . He served in the army during the Crimean War and his Sevastopol Sketches (1855-6) are based on his experiences. His two most popular masterpieces are War and Peace (1864-69) and Anna Karenina (1875-8). He died in 1910. Klappentext Tolstoy's story of one woman's fate is brought powerfully to life in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation starring Teresa Gallagher and Toby Stephens. Anna Karenina enjoys a privileged and aristrocratic lifestyle as the wife of influential government official Alexy Karenin. Yet their ten-year marriage is devoid of tenderness, and when Anna falls in love with the handsome Count Vronsky they embark upon a deep and passionate affair. Reflecting the social conditions of the era in which it was written, Tolstoy's masterpiece sets a doomed love story against a harsh and unforgiving backdrop. Zusammenfassung Tolstoy's story of one woman's fate is brought powerfully to life in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation starring Teresa Gallagher and Toby Stephens. Reflecting the social conditions of the era in which it was written, Tolstoy's masterpiece sets a doomed love story against a harsh and unforgiving backdrop.

Product details

• Authors: Leo N. Tolstoi, Leo Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
• Assisted by: Hugh Dickson (Reader / Narrator), Teresa Gallagher (Reader / Narrator), Toby Stephens (Reader / Narrator)
• Publisher: BBC Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: CD-Audio
• Released: 03.08.2012
• EAN: 9781445830810
• ISBN: 978-1-4458-3081-0
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 125 mm x 24 mm
• Series: BBC Audiobooks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Radio, Russland, Klassische Belletristik, Liebesromane, FICTION / Classics, Russe, Rundfunk - Privater Rundfunk, Radio / Rundfunk, Hörfunk, Südrußland, Radiotechnik, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Hörbuch, Russische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Hörbuch / Hörspiel / Roman, Erzählung