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	Full text and plot summary of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
		Anna Karenina is widely regarded to be an even greater achievement of tragedy and of the novel form than War and Peace had been the decade before.
		It is the story of a fashionable married woman, Anna Karenina, who arrives in St Petersberg to meet Stepan Arkadyevitch but meets with him another man. This man, Count Vronsky, is strangely attracted to Anna from the outset and she begins to feel for him too.
		Anna is brought down by others’ passions and power over her and she is driven, after many twists and turns in her fortunes and those of her lovers, to throw herself under the wheels of a train.
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	BBC - Radio 4 - Woman's Hour -Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy
		Anna Karenina is happily married to the prominent Karenin when she visits her brother to help him sort out his marriage.
		Anna, Kitty, and Dolly were a revelation to me that despite the passing of generations, changes or differences in culture, being a woman and the feelings and experiences that entails, hardly seem to alter
		Anna's first entrance and last exit are both marked by death beneath the wheels of a train.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/womanshour/wwf_anna_karenina.shtml (847 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Anna Karenina Study Guide - Major Themes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The only fully successful marriage in Anna Karenina is between Levin and Kitty, and it only becomes that way when they understand that a man and a woman occupy separate social roles, and that it is necessary for a couple to give each other space.
		One of Tolstoy's major projects in Anna Karenina is to question the "improvements" that are happening to Russia due to Western "progress." The train, for example, a symbol of evil and death in Anna Karenina, came from the West.
		Anna and Vronsky do not create but destroyAnna becomes sterile, Vronsky abandons his career, Karenin is ruined, and Seroyzha loses his motherall in the name of carnal desire.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/karenina/themes.html (1227 words)

	Anna Karenina Summary
		Anna was both delighted and flattered by this, but it was simply unthinkable that anything could come of his attraction to her.
		When Anna made her confession, Alexey, instead of showing jealousy or indignation, merely warned his wife against "public displays of flirtation." His sole concern was to preserve his social and business reputation; a duel or a divorce would only serve to disgrace him.
		Suddenly, Anna turned on Vronsky, cursing him for the sacrifices she had made to be with him - her marriage, her son, her social position...
	www.awerty.com /annak2.html (1585 words)

	Masterpiece Theatre \| Anna Karenina \| The Making of Anna Karenina
		Anna Karenina is often called the greatest novel ever written.
		The temptation is to focus on Anna and Vronsky, but the strength of the novel is in how it explores these other relationships as well: Kitty and Levin, Dolly and Oblonsky, Anna and Karenin.
		Anna's interpretation is that Karenin is a coward, which is probably true.
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	Anna Karenina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Anna, miserable in her loveless marriage, does the barely thinkable and succumbs to her desires for the dashing Vronsky.
		Anna Karenina is a novel that is rich and expansive enough to shadow any flaws.
		I would say without hesitation that Anna Karenina, along with War and Peace, are novels every lover of books should read at least once, as both will enrich your appreciation of, naturally enough, Russian culture and history, but also of life and human nature in general.
	www.classic-literature.co.uk /book-store/1565111915/Anna-Karenina.html (1988 words)

	Glasgow Citizens Theatre - Anna Karenina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Constantly playing through and around Anna's character and her tragedy, this superb team of actresses demonstrate again and again that her passion - denied, repressed, sublimated, mortified, distorted, or tempered on the anvil of happy marriage - exists in all his female characters.
		The role of Anna is divided between five actresses, each of them also playing one of the women across whose lives her fatal affair with Vronsky (Tim Woodward) casts shadows of suffering scandal or mere distaste.
		The social choreography of the Annas and the men in their lives, behind the cenotaph and along the narrow red carpets dusted with falling snow, is as ritualised as the manners prescribed by nineteenth-century sexual convention and Christian teaching.
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	SparkNotes: Anna Karenina: Part One, Chapters I–XVII
		Although Anna Karenina is renowned as a study of romantic passion, the novel shows us the dark and discouraging side of romance from the first page.
		Though Anna Karenina is on the surface a novel about romantic love and courtship, it is actually far more wide-ranging in its focus, delving into public and social topics such as technology, agriculture, and administration.
		Anna appears in the novel near a train, and thrillingly meditates on Vronsky as she rides the train to St. Petersburg.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/anna/section1.html (1233 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics S.): Books: L.N. Tolstoy,John Bayley,Richard Pevear,Larissa Volokhonsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Acclaimed by many as the world's greatest novel, this is the story of a wife, Anna Karenina, who abandons her empty existence as the wife of a Petersburg government minister for a passionate relationship with a young officer, Count Vronsky.
		Anna, despite the fact she is central to the plot, is almost blur-like: no one defining characteristic is set down for the reader, despite the fact that her emotions and feelings are clearly set down for the reader.
		In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy reaches the height of the C19th psychological novel and to read it is to live it.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Anna-Karenina-Penguin-Classics-S/dp/0140449175 (1734 words)

	m3review: ANNA KARENINA
		ANNA KARENINA follows the fate of two souls desperate to know true love -- Anna Karenina (played by Sophie Marceau) and Constantin Levin (played by Alfred Molina).
		Anna's emptiness leads her to an affair with the dashing Count Vronsky (played by Sean Bean).
		When Anna inwardly decides to capitulate to Count Vronsky's advances, the next shot is of a frozen river, thawed in the foreground, ice chunks undulating.
	mdoyle.com /m3review/1997/annakarenina.htm (1076 words)

	Buy.com - Anna Karenina (Oprah's Classic Book Club #5) : Larissa Volokhonsky : ISBN 0143035002
		Anna Karenina has beauty, social position, wealth, a husband, and an adored son, but her existence seems empty.
		Anna turns to Vronsky, a dashing military man, as a refuge from her passionless marriage to a pompous, chilly bureaucrat--a move that results in social ostracization, the loss of her position in the world, and the relentless self-doubt that destroys her confidence and leads to her sad end.
		In ANNA KARENINA, Tolstoy reaches deep into his own experiences and his observations of family and friends to create a picture of Russian society that reaches from the high life in St. Petersburg and Moscow to the idyllic rural existence of Kitty and Levin.
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	Anna Karenina
		Leo Tolstoy's novel, Anna Karenina, upon its release received a mix critical reception, with Russian critics either condemning or applauding the novel primarily on its views of Russian society.
		In the end as Anna traces the career which drives her to suicide in her long soliloquy, she discovers that her love had turned to hate, that her life has become a "stupid delusion" and death provides the only alternative.
		Anna's death is an affirmation of her deep commitment to life and that death is the final truth to her illustrious career.
	www.studyworld.com /newsite/ReportEssay/literature/Novel\Anna_Karenina-171.htm (1238 words)

	Anna Karenina \| Leo Tolstoy
		When he is about to confront Anna about her relationship with Vronsky, Alexei Alexandrovich hesitates, feeling that he stands "face to face with something illogical and senseless," with "life [itself]" (p.
		The first sentence of Anna Karenina is one of the best-known openings of any novel: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Such a pronouncement, with the appearance of thoughtfully dispensed wisdom, holds the promise of a narrator who will illuminate all that follows.
		When Vronsky first meets Anna, "it was as if a surplus of something so overflowed her being that it expressed itself beyond her will..." (p.
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	Anna Karenina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина) is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy first published in periodical installments from 1875 to 1877.
		Tolstoy's style in Anna Karenina is considered by many critics to be transitional, forming a bridge between the realist and modernist novel.
		Anna Karenina is filled with themes and imagery that illustrates Tolstoy's disdain of his aristocratic peers, and of a litany of human weaknesses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anna_Karenina (2905 words)

	NovelGuide: Anna Karenina: Top Ten Quotes
		It is the first sentence in Anna Karenina and gives the reader a glimpse of what the entire novel is about, as it follows the stories of three married couples and their happiness or unhappiness.
		He does not handle Anna’s affair in a way that is good for either of them, and she feels that he is more concerned about what Society thinks than about her or their marriage.
		Anna’s need for Society and for her position before she started her affair becomes very important to her after she loses them when she has forsaken husband and child.
	www.novelguide.com /annakarenina/toptenquotes.html (816 words)

	Amazon.fr : Anna Karenina: Livres en anglais: Leo Tolstoy,Richard Pevear,Larissa Volokhonsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky.
		Anna who is married to the wealthy and older Karenin lives a life of comfort without any excitement, a life that is full of routines and no zest.
		On the other hand is Levine who is in search of the meaning of life and abandons the zest of life for a purposeful life that includes a family, ideas on the advancement of humanism, being at peace with ones world and hard work in is farm and being at peace with God.
	www.amazon.fr /Anna-Karenina-Leo-Tolstoy/dp/0143035002 (769 words)

	Melodramatic 'Karenina' lacks depth - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Theater/Arts - A&E
		An example: Anna's small son is more cipher than real child, and her love for him is alluded to only in passing.
		The opening music in ''Anna Karenina," for instance, is the sonatina movement from the ''Serenade for Strings" that Balanchine used in ''Serenade," the first ballet he made in America and an unassailable icon in the history of dance.
		The rhythm of ''Anna Karenina" is pendulum-like and predictable.
	www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2005/05/20/melodramatic_karenina_lacks_depth (510 words)

	CliffsNotes::Anna Karenina:Book Summary and Study Guide
		Anna, followed by Vronsky, returns to her husband and son in St. Petersburg, while the disappointed Levin returns to his country estate.
		Anna is confined of a daughter, but dangerously ill from puerperal fever.
		Anna, seeing the irreversible decline of her love affair, has no more will to live and commits suicide.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-15,pageNum-2.html (746 words)

	Rand and Anna Karenina
		She presented her negative analysis of "Anna Karenina" in the article "What is Romanticism?" in her book "The Romantic Manifesto," and in several places in her book "The Art of Fiction." Rand was opposed to the fact that social ostracism was sufficient to destroy Anna's attempt to find happiness outside her unhappy marriage.
		She was also opposed to the graphic details of Anna's death under the wheels of a running train as unnecessarily horrific and cruel.
		A reader's enjoyment of "Anna Karenina" does not imply a philosophical deficiency -- it is possible to enjoy the novel on a literary level.
	www.objectivistcenter.org /cth--1270-Rand_and_Anna_Karenina.aspx (438 words)

	Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. Search, Read, Study, Discuss.
		Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
		But she was in the book, and I was on the outside looking in, and no amount of effort on my part could stop her, so I had to drop all my desires for her life, all my thoughts about her story, all my thoughts about anything, and silently, helplessly watch.
		Anna Karenina, is the most real character I've ever read about & Anna Karenina the novel is indeed the one where all the characters seem to be part of our lives.
	www.online-literature.com /tolstoy/anna_karenina (1348 words)

	Eifman Ballet - Anna Karenina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the first scene, Anna says goodnight to her little boy who is playing with a toy train, foreshadowing the locomotive which will kill her at the end.
		At a ball, the good people of the town are dressed in shades of gray while Anna and her husband stand out in fl.
		Anna’s breakdown is set to cacophonous modern music, not Tchaikovsky and danced in flesh-colored unitards by the heroine and the corps.
	www.culturevulture.net /Dance2/EifmanAnnaK.htm (567 words)

	eBay - Book: Anna Karenina (ISBN: 0140440410) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Anna Karenina is the wife of a prominant Russian government official.
		Reading Anna Karenina a few years ago was my last encounter with Leo Tolstoy s fiction, and I credit the book for finally making me realize what it was that had always bothered me about Tolstoy.
		The novel, Anna Karenina, is founded on a problem that by today's standards would not be as destructive as it was in 1880s Russian society.
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	DVD Verdict Review - Anna Karenina
		Thus, it was hard to fathom how a woman who had one dance with a soldier in Moscow could, upon their next on-camera meeting, be ready to consider leaving her husband and son for him, especially since sparks of passion between Garbo and March are rarely seen.
		More than a tale of passion, it's a tale of loss, as Anna is separated from the son she dotes on.
		Garbo's Anna Karenina barely scratches the surface of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, and suffers from lack of romantic chemistry between the leads, but I still enjoyed it.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/annakarenina.php (1206 words)

	Anna Karenina eBooks - Leo Tolstoy - Visit eBookMall Today!
		In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy moved away from the vast historical sweep of War and Peace to tell, with extraordinary understanding, the story of an aristocratic woman who brings ruin on herself.
		Anna's tragedy is interwoven with the courtship and marriage of Kitty and Levin as well as the lives of many other characters.
		A startling portrayal of aristocracy, Anna Karenina is heralded as one of the greatest novels of all time.
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	NovelGuide: Anna Karenina: Theme Analysis
		Anna is shunned from Society when she openly leaves her husband for Vronsky.
		Anna has many moral conflicts after she begins her affair with Vronsky, although she tries not to think about them.
		We see the importance of Society in how desperate Anna becomes when she is deprived of it.
	www.novelguide.com /annakarenina/themeanalysis.html (735 words)

	Amazon.de: Anna Karenina.: Bücher: Leo N. Tolstoi,Leo N. Tolstoj (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Annas Bruder Stepan (Stiwa) Oblonskij, charmant und äußerst sinnenfroh, gibt sich in seiner kinderreichen Ehe mit Darja (Dolly) wiederholt Liebesaffären hin, kehrt jedoch stets reumütig zu seiner leidgeprüften Frau zurück.
		Anna kehrt überstürzt nach Petersburg zurück, wo sie in dem alltäglichen Leben an der Seite ihres Mannes Alexej zur Ruhe zu kommen hofft.
		Wirkung: Anna Karenina wurde neben Madame Bovary (1856) von Gustave R Flaubert und Effi Briest (1895) von Theodor R Fontane zu einer der berühmtesten Ehebrecherinnen der Weltliteratur.
	www.amazon.de /Anna-Karenina-Leo-N-Tolstoi/dp/3423124946 (1949 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Anna Karenina (Wordsworth Classics): Books: Leo Tolstoy,E.B. Greenwood,Louise Maude,Aylmer Maude (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In a way Anna's fall from grace is similar to bonfire of the vanities.
		At one moment you are reading from the viewpoint of Anna Karenina, the next from her husband's or her lover's.
		She is an aristocrat in the true sense of the word, not just born into a noble family, but possessing a nobility of spirit as well.
	amazon.co.uk /Anna-Karenina-Wordsworth-Classics-Tolstoy/dp/1853262714 (1885 words)

	NovelGuide: Anna Karenina: Metaphor Analysis
		In this novel they are special symbols of change because of all of the additional important things that occur on or at them that cause things to change.
		Anna and Vronsky first meet at a railway station; Anna first becomes dissatisfied with Karenin at a railway station (his large ears); Vronsky declares his love for Anna at a railway station; Anna kills herself by jumping under a train; Vronsky's intention to go to war is revealed on a train.
		This symbolizes Anna's trying to escape her situation through reading about others.
	www.novelguide.com /annakarenina/metaphoranalysis.html (315 words)

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