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Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,” Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and thereby exposes herself to...

As Karenin prevents Anna from seeing her son, Anna appeals to her brother for help in obtaining a divorce, but her husband proves resistant to their efforts. Anna's jealousy and insecurity drive a wedge into her relationship with Vronsky, leading her to take control of her destiny at last.

After recovering from her difficult childbirth, Anna and Vronsky flee to Italy to live as if they were a married couple. Levin and Kitty announce their engagement, but their relationship is off to a rocky start.

Set in late 19th century Russia high-society, the aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.

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Thomas Mann once named Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina "the greatest social novel of world literature." When reading the novel, John Neumeier was deeply fascinated by Tolstoy's work: not only by the main characters and the plot, but also by the extraordinary variety of thematic connections. It is a story of three families. John Neumeier states: "Tolstoy himself wrote and published 'Anna Karenina' as a serial story over a number of years. The feeling in...

Tragedy strikes as Anna and the Count find their passionate affair challenged by society.

As Viv Groskop knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened to a person has already happened in the Russian classics: from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina), to being hopelessly in love with someone who doesn't love you back (Turgenev's A Month in the Country), or being socially anxious about your appearance (all of Chekhov's work). In The Anna Karenina Fix, a sort of literary self-help memoir, Groskop mines...

ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura Anna Karenina, una de las obras más grandes de la historia de la literatura. El nombre de la novela es el de su protagonista, que Tolstói sitúa en el centro de una trama de historias de pasión humana y adulterio enmarcadas en la vieja Rusia, dividida por las clases sociales. ¡Ya no tienes que leer y resumir todo el libro, nosotros lo hemos hecho por ti! Esta guía incluye: •...