Posts Tagged ‘ Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky Translation ’

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina. Bottomless Deep.

Alexei Alexandrovich was not a jealous man. Jealousy, in his opinion, was insulting to a wife, and a man ought to have trust in his wife. Why he ought to have trust – that is, complete assurance that his young wife would always love him – he never asked himself; but he felt no distrust, [ READ MORE ]

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina. Warm, very warm, hot!

The hero of the novel was already beginning to achieve his English happiness, a baronetcy and an estate, and Anna wished to go with him to this estate, when suddenly she felt that he must be ashamed and that she was ashamed of the same thing. But what was she ashamed of? ‘What am I [ READ MORE ]

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina. Most Definite And Firm Opinions

Anna smiled, as one smiles at the weaknesses of the people one loves, and, putting her arm under his, accompanied him to the door of the study. She knew his habit, which had become a necessity, of reading in the evenings. She knew that in spite of the responsibilities of service which consumed almost all [ READ MORE ]

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina. Blue Mist.

‘Oh! how good to be your age’, Anna went on. ‘I remember and know that blue mist, the same as in the mountains in Switzerland. The mist that envelops everything during the blissful time when childhood is just coming to an end, and the path away from that vast, cheerful and happy circle grows narrower [ READ MORE ]

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina. Two sorts of girls.

He knew so well this feeling of Levin’s, knew that for him all the girls in the world were divided into two sorts: one sort was all the girls in the world except her, and these girls had all human weaknesses and were very ordinary girls; the other sort was her alone, with no weaknesses [ READ MORE ]

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