Anna Karenina (Translation from the Classics Library) 046

Author: (Russian) Leo Tolstoy, translated by Gao Huiqun, Shi Guosheng
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a great Russian writer, and Anna Karenina is one of his major works. Anna, a noblewoman, pursues love and happiness but meets with failure in the face of Karenin's hypocrisy, indifference, and Vronsky's selfishness, ultimately leading to her suicide by train and death at the station. Levin, the estate owner, opposes private land ownership and the capitalist system, sympathizes with poor farmers, yet cannot escape noble habits, leaving him trapped in an inescapable conflict. The contradictions of the era, the systems, the characters, and the psychology make the entire novel tossed in the whirlpool of conflict. This novel is deeply loved by Chinese readers and reflects the tense and anxious Russian society during the transition period between the old and the new.