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"The pure narrative power of his work is unequalled. Seldom did art work so much like nature; its immediate, natural power is only another manifestation of nature itself; and to read him again, to be played upon by the animal keenness of this eye, the sheer power of this creative attack, the entirely clear and true greatness, unclouded by any mysticism... is to find one's way home, safe from every danger of affectation and morbid trifling; home to originality and health, to everything within us that is fundamental and sane." -Thomas Mann "flawless as a work of art" -Dostoyevsky, on Anna Karenina |
| TOLSTOY, Leo. Anna
Karenina. Moscow: T. Ris, 1878. Octavo, contemporary marbled boards with
early leather spines. Three volumes. $30,000. First edition of Tolstoy's epic and penetrating tragedy, one of the most influential and widely-read novels of Western Literature. Some minor marginal dampstaining, light wear to bindings. An exceptional copy of an exceedingly rare first edition, most handsomely bound in contemporary boards. more images, please click to enlarge:
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