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Now that I've read Dosty's "Brothers Karamazov", a great book, I can easily say "Anna Karenina" is my favorite Russian novel. And "A.K." is among my favorite novels ever. It just feels so true.
Tolstoy takes the dualities of "War and Peace" (1869) into the spectacular and far more intimate "Anna Karenina" (1877). Anna must be one of the most finely drawn characters in all of literature: she is at war, from page 1, with herself and her surroundings. She never learns that what she wants from the w ...more
Tolstoy takes the dualities of "War and Peace" (1869) into the spectacular and far more intimate "Anna Karenina" (1877). Anna must be one of the most finely drawn characters in all of literature: she is at war, from page 1, with herself and her surroundings. She never learns that what she wants from the w ...more
"Anna Karenina" was written by Leo Tolstoy in the late 19th century Russia and is considered by many as the greatest work of literature ever written.
The title is quite a misleading one. The book belongs as much to Anna Karenina as it does to Konstantin Levin, the other main character. The novel deals with various themes like faith, marriage, politics, art, war, economics and betrayal. Both the main characters go through various emotional hardships. The novel depicts a contrast in the way Anna an ...more
The title is quite a misleading one. The book belongs as much to Anna Karenina as it does to Konstantin Levin, the other main character. The novel deals with various themes like faith, marriage, politics, art, war, economics and betrayal. Both the main characters go through various emotional hardships. The novel depicts a contrast in the way Anna an ...more
Dec 12, 2017
James
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it was amazing
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After failing miserably as a teen to finish Crime and Punishment, Russian literature for the most part has always remained something that I would get to later on. Especially Tolstoy and his two monolithic tomes War and Peace and Anna Karenina looming on my shelf intimidatingly. Many times I have gone to start my copy of War and Peace, and always I have shied away at the last minute, mainly from the fear of having to print out a character map just to memorize so many long russian names that I am
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Apr 06, 2022
Evelyn Jane
marked it as to-read
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