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English translation 2014 by Marian Schwartz. This translation is based on the Russian text in L. N. Tolstoy, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii v 90 tomakh [Complete collected works in 90 volumes], vols. 18–19 (Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1929–1958).

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Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828–1910, author.

[Anna Karenina. English]

Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy ; translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz ; edited with an introduction by Gary Saul Morson.

pages   cm.—(Margellos world republic of letters book)

English translation is based on the Russian text in: L. N. Tolstoy, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii v 90 tomakh, vols. 18–19. Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1929–1958.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-0-300-20394-3 (cloth : alk. paper)

I. Schwartz, Marian, translator. II. Morson, Gary Saul, 1948–, editor, writer of introduction.

III. Title. IV. Series: Margellos world republic of letters book.

PG3366.A6  2014

891.73′3—dc23      2014015256

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This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper).

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