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Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Start date: March 6, 2022

Finish date: June 11, 2022

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Feb 17, 2011 Leonard rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: literature-russian, literary-novels

To seek happiness Anna left the proper and dull Karenin for the dashing and exciting Vronsky, but in the end, committed suicide to end her misery. Rather than a comment on morality, Tolstoy through Anna Karenina, as in War and Peace, sought to contrast those who like Anna ignored or opposed the ubiquitous force which direct the destiny of individuals and nations and those who like Levin flowed with it. Both Anna and Levin, unlike Stiva and Dolly, could not passively regurgitate accepted behavior ...more

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Aug 23, 2014 Soneso rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I was expecting to read a novel about passions, jealousy, infatuation and frustrations, a sort of Russian Madame Bovary. What a big mistake. It was a thrilling surprise to come across in fact with an in-depth study about life (in XIXth century Russia). All the characters are desperate to find a meaningful direction in their lives and an answer to their daily despairs. Each of them in a very different way. Eventually, it seems to me, they all fail with the exception of Levin, Tolstoy's alter-ego, ...more

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Aug 30, 2012 Susan rated it liked it · review of another edition

I'm not a big fan of Russian literature and this was extremely tedious. So much time is spent analyzing each look or comment by a character that it became very tiresome...will be a long time before I return to a Russian author. ...more

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