Anna Karenina

Author: (Russia) 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 faces a brutal reality in the hypocrisy, indifference of Karenin, and selfishness of Vronsky, ultimately 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, showing sympathy for 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 sway 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 period of transition between the old and the new.