Anna Karenina
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Tags: Classics, Novel, Russian
ISBN:067978330X
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In Anna Karenina, faith is challenged, bonds are broken, love dies and is reborn. Originally published in serial form between 1873 and 1877, the novel is set in the glamorous world of the aristocracy in nineteenth century Russia. It is the tale of a woman who is asked to help save a struggling marriage. When she arrives to help her sister's family, Anna Karenina, a respectable married woman, is introduced to a web of intrigue, passion, and transgression. One of Tolstoy's most famous works, Anna Karenina is a dramatic chronicling of the life of a family as it comes together, falls apart, and as its members discover and redefine themselves.
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About the Author
Born into an aristocratic Russian family, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was able to enjoy a life of luxury from the very first. Throughout his life, however, and perhaps inspired by personal losses from which even his financial comfort could not protect him, he remained intrigued by philosophical questions about the nature of human existence. Through military service and well into his career as a writer, Tolstoy sought higher truths and found the materialistic lifestyle of many around him to be quite empty. Best known for his novels Anna Karenina, War and Peace, and The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Tolstoy was an extremely prolific writer, with a full catalog of short stories, plays, and non-fiction to his name.
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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her ...
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Reviewed by renuka.kakad2009 on Feb 7, 2010
Anna Karenina
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Reviewed by jengirl17 on Dec 16, 2009
classic lit but very long
I wanted to read this because it is a significant part of classic literature and I have never read any Tolstoy. It was quite long but I appreciated the detail that Tolstoy put into the descriptions of, well, everything. I really identified with the character of Levin, as I'm often fighting myself on my own personal philosophy of life. I feel very accomplished that I got through the book and look forward to conquering other works by Tolstoy.
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Reviewed by chrway on Jul 8, 2009
good
Good, interesting, but long
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Reviewed by margievo on May 9, 2009
Anna Karenina
Love it, so far.
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Reviewed by wsimpson3144 on Apr 22, 2009
anna karenina
an incredibly wonderful book. getting through this, and reading diligently really paid off. the whole book was amazing in that you could not only understand who the characters are (there were almost no one dimensional characters in the book) but you could also understand, and believe in, their actions and motivations. a wonderful book that gives a great perspective into everyday life, and some of the issues dealt with outside the book.
all in all, i strongly recommend this, if you've got the time.
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