Anna Karenina (No CD Included)

Author: Leo Tolstoy
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: One of the major works of the Russian literary giant Leo Tolstoy. The noblewoman Anna pursues love and happiness but suffers a brutal fate in the face of Karenin's hypocrisy, indifference, and Vronsky's selfishness, ultimately ending up committing suicide by lying on the tracks and being left for 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 conflicting systems, the contradictory characters, and the conflicting psychology make the entire novel tossed in the whirlpool of contradictions. This novel is deeply loved by readers in my country; it depicts the tense and anxious Russian society during the period of transition between the old and the new.