Anna Karenina

leo tolstoy

Acclaimed by many as the world's greatest novel, Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general. In it Tolstoy uses his intense imaginative insight to create some of the most memorable characters in literature. Anna is a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty existence as the wife of Karenin and turns to Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature - with tragic consequences. Levin is a reflection of Tolstoy himself, often expressing the author's own views and convictions.

Throughout, Tolstoy points no moral, merely inviting us not to judge but to watch. As Rosemary Edmonds comments, 'He leaves the shifting patterns of the kaleidoscope to bring home the meaning of the brooding words following the title, 'Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.

Genres fictionromancerussiahistorical fictionliteraturerussian literaturenovelsaudiobookhistorical19th century

880 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1878

Literary awards

premio literatura rusa en españa, read russia prize,

Places

russia, russian empire,

This edition

Format: 880 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 2001 by Edaf Antillas
ISBN: 9788441409286
ASIN: 8441409285
Language: Spanish; Castilian

Characters More characters

Princess Ekaterina Kitty Aleksandrovna Shcherbatskaya

Dollys younger sister and later Levins wifemore...
Anna Arkadyevna Karenina

A beautiful, aristocratic married woman from St. Petersburg whose pursuit of love and emotional honesty makes her an outcast from society. Annas adulterous affair catapults her into social exile, misery, and finally suicide. Anna is a beautiful person in ...
Count Aleksei Kirillovich Vronsky

Lover of Anna...
Konstantin Kostya Dmitrievitch Levin

Levin was originally a marginal character in the novel, but by the final version he had grown into its co-protagonist, as central as Anna herself. Levin is a veiled self-portrait of the author: his name includes Tolstoys first name (Lev in Russian), and m...
Prince Stepan Stiva Arkadyevitch Oblonsky

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About the author

leo tolstoy

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.

His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.