'Love...it means too much to me, far more than you can understand.'

Anna Karenina is a beautiful and intelligent woman, whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society around her. Her love affair with Vronsky is played out alongside the developing romance between Kitty and Levin, and in the character of Levin, closely based on Tolstoy himself, the search for happiness takes on a deeper philosophical significance.

Listen to Rosamund Bartlett, editor and translator of the Oxford World’s Classics edition, introduce Anna Karenina and Leo Tolstoy’s style on the links below.

'Love...it means too much to me, far more than you can understand.'

Anna Karenina is a beautiful and intelligent woman, whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society around her. Her love affair with Vronsky is played out alongside the developing romance between Kitty and Levin, and in the character of Levin, closely based on Tolstoy himself, the search for happiness takes on a deeper philosophical significance.

Listen to Rosamund Bartlett, editor and translator of the Oxford World’s Classics edition, introduce Anna Karenina and Leo Tolstoy’s style on the links below.

'Love...it means too much to me, far more than you can understand.'

Anna Karenina is a beautiful and intelligent woman, whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society around her. Her love affair with Vronsky is played out alongside the developing romance between Kitty and Levin, and in the character of Levin, closely based on Tolstoy himself, the search for happiness takes on a deeper philosophical significance.

Listen to Rosamund Bartlett, editor and translator of the Oxford World’s Classics edition, introduce Anna Karenina and Leo Tolstoy’s style on the links below.

'Love...it means too much to me, far more than you can understand.'

Anna Karenina is a beautiful and intelligent woman, whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society around her. Her love affair with Vronsky is played out alongside the developing romance between Kitty and Levin, and in the character of Levin, closely based on Tolstoy himself, the search for happiness takes on a deeper philosophical significance.

Listen to Rosamund Bartlett, editor and translator of the Oxford World’s Classics edition, introduce Anna Karenina and Leo Tolstoy’s style on the links below.

Please note: this episode contains explicit language and references to explicitly sexual artwork and has not been bleeped.

In this episode of the Oxford Comment (the latest in a series produced by the Benezit Dictionary of Artists), Benezit’s Editor in Chief, Dr. Kathy Battista, sits down with painter Betty Tompkins in our New York office. The two discuss the start of Tompkins’ life as an artist in New York in the 1970s, the success of her large-scale sex paintings and other airbrush works, and her new series of text paintings, WOMEN Words. For more insight into Betty’s career and feminist art over the last half-century, Michelle Wilson from Oxford Art Online invites art historian Dr. Betty Ann Brown, curator Stephanie Roach, and gallerist Mitchell Algus to join the conversation. 

This episode was produced by Grove Art assistant editor Lillyan Ling.

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Rihanna and Representations of Black Women – Episode 39 – The Oxford Comment by Oxford University Press

In this episode of the Oxford Comment, we sat down with Eleanor Maier, Senior Editor at the Oxford English Dictionary, Giorgio Riello, co-author of Luxury: A Rich History, Wendy Doniger, author of Redeeming the Kamasutra, Jessica Berson, author of The Naked Result: How Exotic Dance Became Big Business, and Rachel Kuo, contributing writer at everydayfeminism.com, to learn more about the history and usage of the word "exotic."

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An audio recording of the blog post written by isiZulu Oxford Living Dictionary’s celebrity blogger, South African author Nakanjani Sibiya. The post is read by the isiZulu Oxford Living Dictionary’s Language Manager Sibusiso Dlamini.

Umbhalo wekhasi lewebhu okuxoxiswana kulo obhalwe umbhali owusaziwayo wekhasi lewebhu okuxoxiswana kulo Wesichazamazwi Esiphilayo sesiZulu sase-Oxford, umbhali waseNingizimu Afrika uNakanjani Sibiya. Lo mbhalo oqoshiwe ufundwa uMphathi Wolimi LwesiZulu uSibusiso Dlamini Wesichazamazwi Esiphilayo sesiZulu sase-Oxford.

Oxford Global Languages (OGL) is a major new initiative which will enable millions of people across the globe to find answers online to their everyday language questions in 100 of the world’s languages. For the first time, large quantities of quality lexical information for these languages will be systematically created, collected, and made available, in a single linked repository, to speakers and learners.

I-Oxford Global Languages (OGL) umsebenzi omkhulu omusha ozokwenza ukuthi izigidi zabantu emhlabeni wonke jikelele zithole izimpendulo kwi-inthanethi emibuzweni yabo yazo yansuku zonke yolimi e-100 lwezilimi zomhlaba. Okokuqala ngqa, inani elikhulu lolwazi olusezingeni eliphezulu lencazelo yamagama yalezi zilimi luzokwakhiwa ngokuhlelekile, liqoqwe, bese lutholakala, endaweni eyodwa lapho luzogcinwa khona, ezikhulumini nakubafundi.

Find out more about Oxford Living Dictionaries: https://zu.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/about?language_pair=isizulu-english&locale=en

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This episode of the Oxford Comment is the second in our two-part series in conjunction with the Benezit Dictionary of Artists. We resume our roundtable conversation at the New York office with artist Robert Whitman, Benezit Editor in Chief, Dr. Kathy Battista, and Experiments in Art and Technology Director Julie Martin, to discuss many of E.A.T.’s noteworthy and laudable undertakings. To learn more, our multimedia producer, Sara Levine, also interviews Dr. Julia Robinson, a Grove Dictionary of Art contributor and professor of Art History at New York University, about E.A.T.’s role in the development of the performance art medium in New York in the 1960s and 1970s.

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