Anna Karenina
Tolstoy| Leo
Leo Tolstoy's novel of passion and its consequences in 1870s Russian high society. The beautiful Anna Karenina, trapped in a loveless marriage, begins a consuming affair with the dashing Count…
Leo Tolstoy's novel of passion and its consequences in 1870s Russian high society. The beautiful Anna Karenina, trapped in a loveless marriage, begins a consuming affair with the dashing Count Vronsky — a transgression that sets her on an inexorable path toward isolation and tragedy. Interwoven with the parallel story of the farmer Levin's search for meaning, it is widely regarded as one of the greatest novels ever written.
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divine intervention 619 social expectations 156 marital discord 148 personal fulfillment 95 adulterous relationships 67 rural estate management 64 aristocratic society 39 psychological realism 36 female characters 25 search for personal fulfillment 23 social consequences 20 gender roles 20 moral hypocrisy 19 emotional distress 19 aristocratic social circles 16 psychological realism of female characters 15 district council 15 chariot warfare 14 alexey alexandrovitch 14 marital discord within upper-class families 11 adulterous relationship 11 19th-century russian aristocratic society 10 upper-class families 9 social expectations and gender roles 9 peasant labor 9 adulterous relationships and social consequences 9 landed gentry 9 hunting expedition 9 divorce proceedings 9 anna's adulterous position 9