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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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Few writers and thinkers have had the widespread, long-lasting influence of Russia's Leo Tolstoy. Besides creating War and Peace and Anna Karenina, two of the most celebrated novels in world literatur...
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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 ...
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"Vengeance is mine; I will repay," states the darkly foretelling epigraph of Leo Tolstoy's famous novel Anna Karenina. Throughout the work, the author seems torn between feminist and misogynist sym...
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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...
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