Anna Karenina, Vol 1 Of 2 by Leo Tolstoy
In nineteenth-century Russian high society, a troubled household crisis sets the stage for intersecting lives: a charming but unfaithful nobleman struggles to repair his marriage while his sister, a beautiful and socially admired woman, arrives and sparks an immediate attraction in an officer whose attentions shatter the hopes of a young woman from a country estate; meanwhile a thoughtful landowner wrestles with questions of love, faith and purpose as he seeks to win that young woman’s hand and to manage the burdens of rural life. The narrative traces the contrast between city scandal and country striving, the moral and emotional consequences of desire, and the characters’ search for meaning amid social expectations and personal longing.
- Published
- 1877
- Nationality
- Russian
- Length
- Very Long
- Pages
- 700-900 pages
- Original Language
- Russian
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- Anna Karenin
- Anna Karenine
- Анна Каренина
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