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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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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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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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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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
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - One is long, the other is
longer. Two newly published translations of "War and Peace"
have prompted renewed debate over the famed work by Leo
Tolstoy. Translators Richard Peve...
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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...
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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...
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10: 1984
The book that gave us Big Brother also presented Winston and Julia, the lovers who are imprisoned and forced to betray each other before being reduced to emotionless drones. That's love fo...
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Yes, love is a many-splendored thing but sometimes a person, in her down-to-earth moments, may feel as if a relationship is a series of problems to be solved. A few of those problems have to do wi...
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Celebrity political endorsements
do not get much bigger than Oprah Winfrey's. But political experts say it is doubtful the popular U.S.
talk show host can sway votes to fellow-...
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Celebrity political endorsements
do not get much bigger than Oprah Winfrey's. But political experts say it is doubtful the popular U.S.
talk show host can sway votes to fellow-...
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Hey, things are looking good and weird out there! This fall brings Bebe Neuwirth in a surreal textual experiment, Isabelle Huppert in a suicidal frenzy, Patti LuPone hauling around a tuba, and talk...
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Anna Karenina
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
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Recurring Themes in 19th Century Russian Literature
Anna Karenina
"War and Peace" translations duel for Tolstoy fans
