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Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Start date: March 6, 2022

Finish date: June 11, 2022

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Why we're reading this: Group Read 03/06/22 - 06/11/22

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Jul 24, 2012 Laura rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: book-and-movie, fiction-19th-century, read-2012, drama, audio-books, historical-fiction, russian-fiction

How to resist to this great BBC dramatization?

From BBC Radio 4 Extra:
In 19th century Russia, a bored high society wife embarks on a love affair. Teresa Gallagher and Toby Stephens star in Tolstoy's love story set in 19th century Russia.

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Feb 13, 2008 Laura rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: russian-fiction, book-and-movie, fiction-19th-century, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, classics

Anna Karenina is the tragic story of a married aristocrat/socialite and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The story opens when she arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brother's unbridled womanizing—something that prefigures her own later situation, though she would experience less tolerance by others.

It is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. ...more

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Aug 17, 2009 Amanda rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Anyone who talked to me while I was reading this book will no doubt be surprised by the five star rating. I threatened one star many times and had more than a few mental fights with Tolstoy along the way. I wanted to throw the book across the room and perhaps push Anna under that train myself about 100 pages earlier than Tolstoy did but I still recognize that it is a work of genius and I'm glad I read it. I'm also glad it's over.

This book should really be read slowly, much more slowly than I did ...more

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