Anna Karenina: A Popular Edition of World Literature Classics

Author: (Russia) Leo Tolstoy
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: Anna Karenina is one of the major works of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. The noblewoman Anna pursues love and happiness but is ultimately crushed by the hypocrisy, indifference of Karenin, and selfishness of Vronsky, ending up taking her own life by lying on the tracks and being found dead at the station. The landlord Levin opposes private land ownership and resists the capitalist system, sympathizing with the poor peasants, yet he cannot escape the aristocratic habits that trap him in an inescapable conflict. The contradictions of the era, the contradictory systems, the contradictory characters, and the contradictory psychology make the entire novel tossed in the whirlpool of conflicts. This novel is deeply loved by readers in my country, as it depicts the tense and anxious Russian society during the transition period between the old and the new.