Anna Karenina in Our Time [ Association Copy: Anne Rice's Personal Copy ]

Gary Saul Morson

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. First Edition, Later Printing. Hardcover boards. / No dust jacket. Item #5285
ISBN: 9780300100709

Later printing of Gary Saul Morson’s collection of essays on Leo Tolstoy’s "Anna Karenina," special for its provenance. From the private library and estate of renowned author Anne Rice. Association copies, particularly those signed by an author, provide collectors with a valuable degree of confidence in the authenticity of the signature. Association copies have become increasingly sought-after collectibles, offering a unique and personal alternative to traditional limited or signed editions.

No dust jacket present. Some light wear to the boards, with bumping to the head and foot of the spine and to the corners. The volume remains tightly bound and in solid condition. Used sticker to the back panel.

This copy is heavily annotated throughout the first half of the book, with numerous underlined passages, markings, and extensive handwritten notes in the margins and between lines. The interior remains clean aside from Rice’s own red-ink annotations, written in her elegant penmenship. Anne Rice has signed the front free endpaper: Anne Rice / June 3rd / 2021

She has filled the pages with additional notes and reflections drawn from the text. Rice seems to have annotated her Tolstoy research material extensively as she studied his works and related critical essays. Her markings show a meticulous process as she frequently examined and commented on sources, cross-references, and footnotes within the essays themselves.

Many annotations throughout. As an example: On page 11, Rice has dated her notes twice at the top of the page, 6/9/21 and 6/3/21, likely reflecting multiple readings. She comments in the margin that a passage “makes me think of Kerouac (On the Road).” Elsewhere, she includes personal anecdotes, expresses occasional disagreement with Morson’s interpretations (notably in the chapter “Dolly and Stiva: Prosaic Good and Evil”), and poses many thoughts and questions about Tolstoy’s treatment of gender and morality, particularly in “Anna and the Kinds of Love,” where she explores Tolstoy’s handling of the “woman question” and sexual freedom.

A truly unique and intimate edition, offering a window into Anne Rice’s intellectual and creative engagement with Tolstoy and her research process in her later years.

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