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Vladimir Nabokov called Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina “oneof the greatest love stories in world literature.” Matthew Arnoldclaimed it was not so much a work of art as “a piece of life.” Setin imperial Russia, Anna Karenina is a rich and complex meditationon passionate love and disastrous infidelity.
Married to a powerful government minister, Anna Karenina is abeautiful woman who falls deeply in love with a wealthy armyofficer, the elegant Count Vronsky. Desperate to find truth andmeaning in her life, she rashly defies the conventions of Russiansociety and leaves her husband and son to live with her lover.Condemned and ostracized by her peers and prone to fits of jealousythat alienate Vronsky, Anna finds herself unable to escape anincreasingly hopeless situation.
Set against this tragic affair is the story of Konstantin Levin,a melancholy landowner whom Tolstoy based largely on himself. WhileAnna looks for happiness through love, Levin embarks on his ownsearch for spiritual fulfillment through marriage, family, and hardwork. Surrounding these two central plot threads are dozens ofcharacters whom Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together, creating abreathtaking tapestry of nineteenth-century Russian society.
Married to a powerful government minister, Anna Karenina is abeautiful woman who falls deeply in love with a wealthy armyofficer, the elegant Count Vronsky. Desperate to find truth andmeaning in her life, she rashly defies the conventions of Russiansociety and leaves her husband and son to live with her lover.Condemned and ostracized by her peers and prone to fits of jealousythat alienate Vronsky, Anna finds herself unable to escape anincreasingly hopeless situation.
Set against this tragic affair is the story of Konstantin Levin,a melancholy landowner whom Tolstoy based largely on himself. WhileAnna looks for happiness through love, Levin embarks on his ownsearch for spiritual fulfillment through marriage, family, and hardwork. Surrounding these two central plot threads are dozens ofcharacters whom Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together, creating abreathtaking tapestry of nineteenth-century Russian society.