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TOLSTOI, COUNT LYOF N. Anna Karenina. In Eight Parts. Translated by Nathan Haskell Dole. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [1886]. 8vo. 773 pp. Orig. cloth. $650.00
Line, Bibliography of Russian Literature in English Translation, 39. The first translation of Anna Karenina into English. With a glossary. A bright copy. Laid in is a printed 12mo broadside, a passage of intense passion between Vronsky and Anna, which according to a pencilled note in the margins, was refused publication by Crowell, the publisher. Dole, the translator, is quoted as declaring that this passage is "the very centre of the whole novel."