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The Killing of Anna Karenina
โ Scribed by Freeborn, Richard
- Book ID
- 109008336
- Publisher
- Arcadia Books Limited
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 276 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781909807495
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Richard Freeborn's 2014 release breaks a century and half of mystery to shed light on what really may have happened to Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Thought to have committed suicide by throwing herself under a train, Freeborn's unstoppable imagination opens a new chapter surrounding the heroine's death โ brought to vivid life through his latest release. Anna Karenina, the heroine of Leo Tolstoy's masterpiece and the finest female portrayal in Russian fiction, became a social pariah through adultery. In suicidal despair, she threw herself under a train. This was her alleged death. The truth is much more comlex. When Prince Dmitry Rostove suffers and accident on a cycling holiday beside Wordsworth's 'sylvan Wye', he encounters a ghostly white figure, a strange black boat, a blood=red rose cast on the water, a train whistle and a gunshot. All of which makes him witness to a 'gap in nature' that leads to a unique quest for the truth about a veiled, reclusive lady. Clever...
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