Novel · 1875–77
Anna Karenina
Анна Каренина
A married woman, a dashing officer, and a landowner searching for meaning: two stories side by side.
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Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910 · Russia As an Amazon Associate, The Put’ earns from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you.
Anna, a married woman in high society, falls in love with the dashing officer Count Vronsky and breaks with everything she has been taught to value. Alongside her story runs another: that of Konstantin Levin, a landowner searching for meaning, work and family in the countryside.
Serialised in The Russian Messenger from 1875, it begins with one of the most famous opening lines in literature, and it keeps asking what it means to live honestly in a society that punishes honesty.
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