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Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina
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Start date
January 4, 2018
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March 31, 2018
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Elba
Jul 09, 2017 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
This is a complex book about human passion. There are two protagonists in this book, Anna and Levin. Anna has an adulterous affair with the sexy Vronsky that ruins her; while he comes up smelling like roses. Anna looses everything; social status, her son, her reputation and her freedom. She seeks to lead a truthful life and refuses to stay in a loveless marriage and becomes a prisoner, looses her mind, and kills herself. Levin is also in search of a truthful life. In Part 7 he meets Anna, and fi ...more
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ana
Apr 07, 2014 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
It's been a long reading interrupted by many other things going on, but I have to say that I have enjoyed it way more than I evwr thought I would. It's te second book by Tolstoy that I've read (Resurrection is the other one), and 'Anna Karenina' has many virtues, especially in the way thw characters are created, how the story alternates different plots and also, the reflection of a time and a country.
Besides, I think it's also a good reading to depict the reality of women during the 19th century ...more
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Addy Beimford
Feb 04, 2019 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Tolstoy's immense love of life and everything that comes with it came at a time when I needed it most. College has been... stressful for me, yet Anna's downward spiral, Kitty's happiness and understanding of a new life, and most of all Levin's questioning of his purpose allowed me to look inward without even realizing I was doing so. I feel renewed after finishing this book. ...more
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Clara
Oct 19, 2011 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Perishan
Apr 26, 2012 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Kerridelaine
Aug 18, 2012 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Sandy
Sep 03, 2012 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Amanda
Jan 26, 2013 marked it as to-read
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Kate Sidle
Jan 28, 2013 marked it as to-read
Hala
Mar 09, 2013 rated it it was amazing
MJ
Mar 10, 2013 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Sofie
Mar 23, 2013 marked it as to-read
Jimena S.
Dec 19, 2013 rated it it was ok
Selin
Jan 03, 2014 marked it as to-read
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Jan 23, 2014 marked it as to-read
Daria
Nov 05, 2014 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Cynthia Jones
Jul 13, 2015 marked it as to-read
Sady
May 25, 2016 marked it as to-read
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Holly
May 29, 2016 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Mina
Sep 07, 2017 marked it as to-read
Dana
Sep 19, 2017 rated it it was amazing
LS
Jan 04, 2018 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Brandy
Jan 08, 2018 marked it as classics-i-own  ·  review of another edition
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Lindsey LaChute
Jul 05, 2018 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Bryanna
Apr 25, 2019 marked it as to-read
Ana Limas
Dec 03, 2019 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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