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The Master and Margarita is one of the most famous and best-selling Russian novels of the 20th century, despite its surreal environment of talking cats, Satan and mysterious happenings. Naxos AudioBooks presents this careful abridgement of a new translation in an imaginative reading by the charismatic Julian Rhind-Tutt. With War and Peace and Crime and Punishment among the Naxos AudioBooks best-sellers, this too promises to be a front title.

Anna Karenina has been described as the perfect Russian novel. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Anna Karenina is defenseless against the power of her passions once they are unleashed by the adoration of Count Vronsky. Having defied the rules of 19th century Russian society, Anna is forced to pay a heavy price. Human nature, with all its failings, is the fabric of which this great and passionate work is composed.

Filled with unforgettable characters, rich in history and social realism, Anna Karenina is a masterpiece of world literature, a story that fires the imagination and touches the heart.

Das moderne russische Nationalepos. Der zwanzigjährige Eugen Onegin zieht, nachdem er ein Landgut erbt, von Petersburg in die Provinz zurück. Er freundet sich mit dem jungen Dichter Wladimir Lensky an. Dessen Verlobte, die verträumte Tatjana, fühlt sich Onegins Eloquenz und Weltgewandtheit angezogen. Während Onegin Tatjana anfangs nur als einen flüchtigen Flirt betrachtet, verliebt sich Tatjana schicksalhaft in den jungen Mann.