Anna Karenina Up and down

Author: (Russian) Leo Tolstoy, translated by Zhou Yang and Xie Sutai
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: Anna Karenina is named after the protagonist, Anna Karenina. In the novel, Anna indeed holds a central position. Anna is a young woman with natural beauty, sincere emotions, and a rich inner world. She was arranged by her aunt to marry a conservative and much older official, Karenin. For many years, she contented herself with the life of a good wife and mother, but her encounter with Vronsky rekindled her pursuit of life and love. In the upper class society of that time, infidelity was not uncommon, but Anna refused to lie to her husband for a long time. She boldly revealed her relationship with Vronsky, thereby being discarded by the upper class society and also facing revenge from Karenin. She fought desperately, but still could not escape her tragic fate and ultimately took her own life by lying on the tracks.