Oprah Chooses Anna Karenina

On Monday, May 31, Oprah announced the Summer 2004 selection for Oprah's Book Club: the Penguin Classics Deluxe edition of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

In a break from tradition, Oprah will be reading the title along with her book club members. It is the first time she has selected a title for the club without having read it.

In a prepared statement, Kathryn Court, president and publisher of Penguin Classics, said, "I am ecstatic that Oprah has selected our Penguin Classics Deluxe edition of Anna Karenina. It is one of my favorite novels -- a story of love, marriage, and adultery that in the Pevear/Volokhonsky superb translation, is absolutely enthralling."

For more about Anna Karenina and the Oprah Book Club, visit www.oprah.com.