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- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Literary Fiction
- Publication Date: 1877
- Publisher: Penguin Classics (paperback edition)
- Pages: 864 (Penguin Classics edition)
- ISBN 0140449175
- Awards/Distinctions: "The Greatest Novel Ever Written" according to 125 contemporary authorsTime.com: The Ten Greatest Books of All Time (January 15, 2007)
- Adaptations: screen, stage, opera
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Plot Synopsis
The central theme explored in Anna Karenina is the conflict to be true to one's self against the expectations of society and family.Anna Karenina would be happiest with Count Vronsky, her lover, but is held to her marriage by her husband Alexei Karenin's unwillingness to grant her a divorce. Karenin, though he does nothing to prevent the lovers from being together, is influenced by his place in society and the advice of a spiritualist. When Anna and Vronsky flee to Europe, they cannot find friends who will accept them, and so return to Russia. Vronsky is nearly driven to suicide out of shame when Anna's husband forgives him for the affair. When Vronsky's passion cools, Anna's desperation drives her to make her own tragic choice.
Conflicting relationships in Anna Karenina mirror the tensions in a changing 19th Century Russian society as the land-owning aristocracy is confronted by the growing influence of liberal Western thinking.Spark Notes: Anna Karenina themes
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Anna Karenina Questions
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Anna Karenina Author Information
- Mahalo's Guide to Leo Tolstoy
- Wikipedia: Leo Tolstoy
- Books and Writers: Leo Tolstoy Biography
- Wikiquote: Leo Tolstoy
- Barnes & Noble: Meet the Writers: Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina Adaptations
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- 1910: Anna Karenina
- 1952: Anna Karenina
- 1961: Anna Karenina
- 1974: Anna Karenina
- 1985: Anna Karenina
- 1997: Anna Karenina
- 2000: Anna Karenina
- 2007: Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina Culture and Humor
- Google Image Search: Anna Karenina
- YouTube: Anna Karenina Trailer (1997 Film) (Time: 02:15)
- YouTube: Anna Karenina Film Clip (Time: 02:04)
- YouTube: Florida Grand Opera presents Anna Karenina (Time: 01:54)
- <related>Leo Tolstoy; Fyodor Dostoevsky; Vladimir Nabokov; James Joyce; Virginia Woolf; William Faulkner; War and Peace; Oprah Winfrey</related>
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@Lavender_Lines I read Anna Karenina last year. I'm good on long, socially important novels for a while.
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Adísia Sá dá desfecho diferente na trama de 3 mulheres da literatura universal, Madame Bovary, Capitu e Anna Karenina. Freud decifra! Leiam!
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Opera Naţională din Bucureşti reia spectacolul Anna Karenina, la 11 ani de la premiera absolută - Opera Naţional http://twurl.nl/vusttc
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Coffee, Anna Karenina, and a snuggly blanket, Can't the holiday start now?
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#BookTuesday Para ser eclética - Indico Anna Karenina, Tolstói ; Vivendo com Propósitos, Ed Renne ; O Amor nos tempos do Cólera, G GMarquez
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