The complete online text of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.

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, and a projected new edition will reach at least 134...

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 literature, Tolstoy was a philosopher whose theories of Christi...

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 of the great rebels of all time, a man who during a l...

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 serfdom in Russia. Throughout his life, Tolstoy felt torn...

Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина), also Anglicised as Anna Karenin, is a long novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical Ruskii Vestnik (Russian: Русский Вестник,...

Colin Graham, the artistic director of the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, died Friday. He was 75.Graham died of respiratory and cardiac arrest at St. John's Mercy Medical Center, a spokeswoman for the organization said.The Opera Theatre of St. Louis was formed in 1976, and...

Colin Graham, the artistic director of the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, died Friday. He was 75.Graham died of respiratory and cardiac arrest at St. John's Mercy Medical Center, a spokeswoman for the organization said.The Opera Theatre of St. Louis was formed in 1976, and...

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Themes of 19th C. Russian literature: Fully sourced from text. Includes Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Fathers and Sons by Turgenev, and The Lady with the Little Dog by Chekhov. All quotes are in Russian.

Examines the novels Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert and Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy. Discusses the different perspectives of religion offered in each book. Compares the heroines in each novel and analyzes their conflicts with religion.

Examines the novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. Reveals how Tolstoy's personal views of 19th century women are made apparent through his depiction of his character Anna.