Anna Karenina

Author: (Russian) Leo Tolstoy
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Publish Date: 2006-08-10
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 faces a brutal reality in the hypocrisy, indifference of Karenin, and selfishness of Vronsky, 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, trapping himself in an inescapable conflict. The contradictions of the era, the systems, the characters, and the psychology make the entire novel tossed in a whirlpool of conflict. This novel is deeply loved by readers in China, as it depicts the tense and anxious Russian society during the transition period between the old and the new.