Description

Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is one of the most celebrated novels ever written — a sweeping portrait of Russian aristocratic life, built around one of literature’s most unforgettable characters. First published in full in 1878, it has never left print.

The story follows Anna, a beautiful and married woman of St Petersburg society, whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky sets her on a collision course with the rigid moral world around her. Running alongside her tragedy is the quieter, hopeful story of Levin — a landowner searching for meaning in work, faith, and love — whose arc gives the novel its philosophical depth and its heart. Tolstoy wrote on an epic scale: the book spans ballrooms and farmyards, Moscow and the countryside, passion and philosophy, all rendered with an almost uncanny understanding of human nature. It is a long novel, and worth every page.

This is a clean, carefully typeset edition of the complete text in the classic Constance Garnett translation — the version that introduced Tolstoy to the English-speaking world, and still one of the most readable. The margins, type size, and layout have been considered so that the finished pages sit well in the hand and look right on a shelf — no small task across a novel of this length.

Your purchase includes several files to suit how you want to work. There is a single-volume edition of the complete text, and a two-volume split for those who prefer a more manageable bind — or want to make a matched pair. For illustrations, you have the choice of editions with images already embedded in the text, or a separate image sheet designed to be printed on thicker paper and pasted in by hand, which gives a beautifully finished result and lets you choose your paper stock independently.

This is a project worth doing well. These files help you do exactly that!

Please note that this book and it’s illustrations are in the public domain in Norway. Make sure that it is in the public domain in your country before buying.

Make sure to print on A4 paper, duplex with flip on the short edge. Printing Letter sized paper should work, you would scale it down to fit and get a bit smaller end result. I have included the whole book in one big file, and also every section separate for each version.

• 1172 pages in final book (293 sheets of paper to print)
• Pages per section: 32
• Total sections: 37 (for full book)
• A5 finished book
• File type: PDF
• File size: 31mb
• Separate print guide enclosed

Download. Print. Bind something you’ll be proud to own.