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Anna Karenina

by Лев Толстой

First Published

1997

Subjects

Fiction
Adultery
Married women
Social life and customs
Social conditions
Upper class women
Russian literature
Upper class
Classic Literature
Literature
Drama
Non-English Fiction
Romance
Russian fiction
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Long Now Manual for Civilization
Reading Level-Grade 11
Reading Level-Grade 12
Continental European fiction (fictional works by one author)
Married people, fiction
History
Manners and customs
Russia
Love stories
FICTION / Classics
FICTION / Literary
Literary
Spanish: Adult Fiction
Slavic philology
Romance fiction
love
marriage
morals
Chang pian xiao shuo
Translations into English
Translations from Russian
English fiction
Mujeres casadas
Novela
Adulterio
Ancient, Classical & Medieval
Russian Novel And Short Story
Literature - Classics / Criticism
Literary Collections
Classics
Romance - General
Cuentos de amor
Vida social y costumbres
Ficción
Literature and fiction, historical fiction
Fiction, romance, historical, general
Adultery -- Fiction
Didactic fiction
Russia -- Fiction
Large type books
Femmes mariées
Romans, nouvelles
Wives
Fiction, general
Youth
Conduct of life
Suicide in literature
Criticism and interpretation
Anna Karenina (Fictitious character)
Suicide
Adultery--russia--fiction
Married women--fiction
Adultery--fiction
Pg3366 .a6 1995
891.73/3
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy, Leo, graf)
Translations into Japanese
Karénine, Anna (Personnage fictif)
Conditions sociales
Mœurs et coutumes

Description

Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,” Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and thereby exposes herself to the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness.

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