Notes on Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

This title came out in three editions in the regular format and two editions in the giant format (duplicating the first and third regular editions).

Regular and giant editions of this title were in print at the same time. Speculation has it that this and a few other extremely popular titles were often used as college texts—the two sizes were available to satisfy the varying demands of instructors, some of whom liked the larger size while others liked the more classic format.

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First copyright page text:     First Modern Library Edition (regular & giant editions)

Dates in print: 1930 - 1950 reg, 1935 - 1965 giant (no intro)
                          1950 - 1965 reg (Troyat intro)
                          1965 - 1975 reg, 1965 - 1975 giant,  1978- 1986(?) giant (Kent & Berberova intro)

Toledano number:    037.2 (reg - no intro)
                                    037.3 (reg - Troyat intro)
                                    037.4 (reg - Kent & Berberova intro)
                                    G023.1 (giant - no intro)
                                    G023.2 (giant - Kent & Berberova intro)

Intro author:     none (1930 - 1950 regular, 1935 - 1965 giant)
                           Henri Troyat (regular edition 1950 - 1965)
                           Leonard J. Kent & Nina Berberova (reg 1965- 1975, giant 1965- 1975)

Genre:     Novel

Curriculum:     19th Century Russian Literature

Original language:      Russian

Translator:      Constance Garnett (all editions),
                          with Kent & Berberova revising the translation for the 1965 editions

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Thanks to the contributors:

Henry Toledano

Vincent Civiletti

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