Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Anna Karenina, a collosal work by renound Russian writer Loe Tolstoy was first published in segments in a Russian newspaper between 1873-1877 but comes togeather in this Oxford World Classic as the complete set. Given the standing of realistic fiction, despite the story belonging to the Drama genre, this work underscores the greatness of Russian literature, due to its size and the intricate magnitude of its character developments and subject contents.
The tragic story of Anna Karenina begins with the desire of a young and handsome soldier named Vronsky who is infatuated with Anna, a married woman. Succumbing to a friendship with Vronsky, Anna falls in love and finds herself in an adulterous relationship which threatens her family and her once noble and even saintly position in Russia's high Society. The story also revolves around, mainly, two Russian families who also have marital dramas and the royal family of Russia (tsarist) also figure in this story. Anna Karenina is an amazing journey into the aristocratic society of Russia's 19th century nobility, and the tagic tale of Anna underscores the destructive outcome of adultery for Anna and those connected to her. The treatment of women in this novel is a central thread to the meaning of this book.
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Sean Bean playing the role of Vronsky in the 1997 adaptation film Anna Karenina |
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