Anna Karenina
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (686 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B003VXGAHK |
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| Number of Pages | : | 454 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Vladimir Nabokov called Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina "one of the greatest love stories in world literature." Set in imperial Russia, Anna Karenina is a rich and complex meditation on passionate love and disastrous infidelity.Married to a powerful government minister, Anna Karenina is a beautiful woman who falls deeply in love with a wealthy army officer, the elegant Count Vronsky. Desperate to find truth and meaning in her life, she rashly defies the conventions of Russian society and leaves her husband and son to live with her lover. Set against this tragic affair is the story of Konstantin Levin, a melancholy landowner whom Tolstoy based largely on himself. While Anna looks for happiness through love, Levin embarks on his own search for spiritual fulfillment through marriage, family, and hard work. From its famous opening sentence---"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"---to its stunningly tragic conclusion, this enduring tale of marriage and adultery plumbs the very de
Ryan said Good book. I feel I'm not qualified to review this book. I'm just a regular guy, not a literature professor, but maybe my comments will be helpful to some. This book is really good. It's all about the characters. Many times while I was reading I wondered how all of this was going to end. It wasn't like a regular story where there's a pretty clear end goal, like get the bad guy, or solve the mystery. It was more. Kindle Customer said Tragic love story. The writing is phenomenal! The use of descriptives to describe scenery, culture, and classism was very enlightening of the time period of Russia conveyed in this book. The philosophical debates among characters such as Levin became long suffering. The story of Anna Karenina herself was very sad as she made one bad decision after another and then had to live with her mistakes. I did not like Anna at a. "Slow paced life changer." according to Ryan. This book is in the top 5 books I've ever read. Tolstoy takes a complex theme, love, and teases it out using two different characters to embody two different views on love. Then he takes those views to their fruition. Anna Karenina is one perspective on love, and Nikolai Levin is another. They both have obstacles that they overcome, and both have a surprising ending. I loved it. I'll read and reread