Anna Karenina Summary
Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy was born into a noble family in 1828. Tolstoy's youth was spent among the world of the upper-class gentry during the last decades of serfd... Read more

Chapter 1 Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house.  The wife had discovered that the husband was c... Read more

The Russian novelist and moral philosopher Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) ranks as one of the world's great writers, and his War and Peace has been called the greatest novel ever written.Leo Tolstoy was one ... Read more

Leo Tolstoy is one of the most important novelists in Western literature. The breadth of his vision and the range of his accomplishments are immense. His 1928- 1958 collected works comprise 90 volumes... Read more

Just to the east of riotous, industrialising Western Europe sat Imperial Russia, pendent between tradition and modernity, a vast empire of duality. As if trying to vent her frustrations, 19th century ... Read more

Religion in Anna Karenin and Madame Bovary Religion is seen in both Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenin and Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary; it is not a major theme, nevertheless, both authors skilfully pro... Read more

Anna Karenina Book Notes is a free study guide on Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. Browse the summary below:   Author Biography / Context of the Work   One-Page Plot Summary   Charac... Read more