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84 out of 84 people found this review helpful.
beauty
Nook edition of Anna Karenina is the best book.
posted by 8305672 on May 21, 2011
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22 out of 22 people found this review helpful.
Garnett not a good translation
Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is all that and then some, but let's talk translations. This is the same 1901 rendering by Constance Garnett used in most of the e-editions out there. Though familiar (especially for its opening sentence), it is widely criticized for its deficien...Read More
Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is all that and then some, but let's talk translations. This is the same 1901 rendering by Constance Garnett used in most of the e-editions out there. Though familiar (especially for its opening sentence), it is widely criticized for its deficiencies and considered a poor choice among better alternatives. The 1918 Maude translation is far better. It is the one most read in college literature classes. The Norton Critical Edition uses the Maude translation, with some revisions by George Gibian. That edition has not been published for e-readers, but a good NOOK edition of the Maude translation is attached to this review (or search "Anna Karenina Maude"). The 2000 translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky is the one associated with Oprah's Book Club. Oprah selected the novel itself more than a particular translation, but a print edition of the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation was featured on her website, so people think of that one as Oprah's pick. The NOOK edition is attached to this review (or search "Anna Karenina Pevear"). It is a matter of taste which translation is preferable, the Maude or the Peavear and Volokhonsky. The influence of the translator is second only to the author in shaping the text. The quality of the translation is crucial.Show Less
posted by ereaderbookworm on March 12, 2011
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Anonymous
Posted May 21, 2011
beauty
Nook edition of Anna Karenina is the best book.
84 out of 84 people found this review helpful.
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Anonymous
Posted March 8, 2011
AMAZING!
Oprah was right about this one ... a truly amazing, indeed, life changing book. Highly, highly, highly recommended.
83 out of 83 people found this review helpful.
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Nick_The_Book_Lover
Posted February 19, 2011
One of the Greatest Novels Ever Written
This is one of the greatest, most beautiful and most heartbreaking novels ever written. No wonder Oprah Winfrey selected it, even though it was written well over a hundred years ago!
83 out of 83 people found this review helpful.
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Anonymous
Posted May 21, 2011
you read
read this book, you will say wow..
82 out of 82 people found this review helpful.
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Anonymous
Posted May 21, 2011
wow
nice to see this book title anna karenina..
82 out of 82 people found this review helpful.
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Anonymous
Posted March 8, 2011
5 stars!
Excellent, truly excellent.
82 out of 82 people found this review helpful.
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Anonymous
Posted May 21, 2011
nice
this best collection of Leo Tolstoy writings..
81 out of 81 people found this review helpful.
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Anonymous
Posted May 21, 2011
anna best
Anna Karenina story is best..
80 out of 80 people found this review helpful.
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ereaderbookworm
Posted March 12, 2011
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Garnett not a good translation
Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is all that and then some, but let's talk translations. This is the same 1901 rendering by Constance Garnett used in most of the e-editions out there. Though familiar (especially for its opening sentence), it is widely criticized for its deficiencies and considered a poor choice among better alternatives. The 1918 Maude translation is far better. It is the one most read in college literature classes. The Norton Critical Edition uses the Maude translation, with some revisions by George Gibian. That edition has not been published for e-readers, but a good NOOK edition of the Maude translation is attached to this review (or search "Anna Karenina Maude"). The 2000 translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky is the one associated with Oprah's Book Club. Oprah selected the novel itself more than a particular translation, but a print edition of the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation was featured on her website, so people think of that one as Oprah's pick. The NOOK edition is attached to this review (or search "Anna Karenina Pevear"). It is a matter of taste which translation is preferable, the Maude or the Peavear and Volokhonsky. The influence of the translator is second only to the author in shaping the text. The quality of the translation is crucial.
22 out of 22 people found this review helpful.
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ArgoKR
Posted March 29, 2010
Don't buy this e-book
Don't buy this e-book. It is full of typographical errors. I am so disappointed! I am only a few pages into this book and I cannot believe the poor quality. How hard can it be to get it correct. I have asked for a refund, we'll see how that goes...... ArgoKR
18 out of 19 people found this review helpful.
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Great novel but this digital copy has many spelling errors.
This is one of the best novels I've read but this digital copy has so many spelling errors that it became annoying within reading the first few pages. Find another copy if you can. This novel really is worth paying a little extra money.
9 out of 10 people found this review helpful.
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cpkx
Posted January 15, 2010
Extremely poor transcription
I don't recall ever reading an ebook with more blatant errors. Although most of the misspelled/partial words can be deciphered, it greatly detracts from the readability. It is obvious that no effort went into the making of this book other than a likely OCR scan from what may have been a poor quality original text. A simple running of a spell checker could have probably caught at least 95% of the errors, but that would still amount to thousands of corrections.
9 out of 10 people found this review helpful.
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GreekLady
Posted July 20, 2010
Masterpiece, but the e-book is full of typos
There are 6 typos per page on average, the book had gotten digitized, and never corrected. Save your 99 cents and download for free from Project Gutenberg. I expected better quality control from B&N.
6 out of 6 people found this review helpful.
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megsy_g
Posted August 11, 2010
A classic ruined by poor conversion quality
I wish I had read the other reviews before I bought this one! I'd always wanted to read the book, so didn't think I needed to check out ratings. The frequency of typing/spelling errors was mindboggling, and should have been caught by any basic spell check; there was at least one on every page. Every couple of days, I would go back to it and try to give it another shot, but I would give up in irritation after a few pages. There's no excuse for publishing such a poor quality version of this classic.
5 out of 5 people found this review helpful.
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wannabeinbrd
Posted July 3, 2010
This printed version is TERRIBLE!
I have always loved this book but there are so many extreme typos on each page, that the book is unreadable. It looks as though they put a typewriter in a cage of monkeys. A huge disappointment.
5 out of 5 people found this review helpful.
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Irwing
Posted July 2, 2010
Great Book! Horrible publication!
Of course Tolstoy is marvelous. However, this particular E-book publication is horrible. There are at least two spelling errors on each page. Get another printing of this book.
5 out of 5 people found this review helpful.
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Anonymous
Posted August 19, 2010
THIS E-BOOK SHOULD BE WITHDRAWN - FULL OF ERRORS, TYPOS, MIS-SPELLING
The lack of editing in this eBook is a disgrace!!!!! I cannot believe B&N had the audacity to charge for this disaster - Never-ending spelling mistakes and typos - it becomes impossible to read with so many errors.
4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.
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Anonymous
Posted August 3, 2010
Don't buy this version
This story is good and I have no problem with the book itself, however, the B&N version is terrible. There are spelling errors and typos on nearly every "page". Not worth the $.99.
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.
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warlotte
Posted June 6, 2010
Tolstoy must be rolling over in his grave
Like several other reviewers, I was very frustrated by the huge number of typos in this e-book. I'm shocked at the poor quality - it's a disgrace to this amazing work of art. I love my nook -- fortunately I read other typo-free books on it before this one. I was so pleased to see such a great e-book deal for Anna Karenina but have since gone back to my paper version because of all the errors.
Did I hear that there are other e-versions of the book that are typo-free?2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
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Anonymous
Posted April 1, 2010
Great Story-Horribly misspelled
I am a new Nook book reader. I have noticed some spelling and spacing errors in a few of the books I have read. Anna Karenina is a great story but this book is so badly misspelled it was hard to read. The book is 822 pages and trying to read through all the misspelling was horrible. I didn't read any reviews before purchasing it and maybe I should have. I was tempted to go out and purchase a copy of the book so I could appreciate the story better. I don't know where the books are transcribed but it couldn't have been run through a spell check. It was sad to see a classic so poorly treated.
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
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