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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, which he claimed as his first true, novel despite having written several before it.
As an 1877 realist novel, Anna Karenina follows a Russian wife in the midst of a love affair, who risks all she has for a lover. Moreover, Tolstoy discusses the betrayal by weaving in themes such as forgiveness, social class, and jealousy. This Bright Notes...
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A Study Guide for Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Anna Karenina with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy is one of his most famous novels and a masterpiece of Russian literature. It tells the story of a young woman of noble birth in 19th century Russia, and her tragic adulterous love. More than a love story, this work is a portrait of the Russia of the author's time and...
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A famous legend surrounding the creation of Anna Karenina tells us that Tolstoy began writing a cautionary tale about adultery and ended up by falling in love with his magnificent heroine. It is rare to find a reader of the book who doesn't experience the same kind of emotional upheaval: Anna Karenina is filled with major and minor characters who exist in their own right and fully embody their mid-nineteenth-century Russian milieu, but it still belongs...
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León Tolstói (1828-1910) es reconocido como uno de los escritores más importantes de la novela rusa y de la literatura mundial. Nacido en una antigua familia de la nobleza, sus obras constituyen un fiel reflejo de la sociedad rusa de la época, convirtiéndolo en uno de los representantes más reconocidos del realismo.
En "Anna Karenina" (que empezó a publicarse como un folletín en 1875, y se publicaría por primera vez entera en 1877), Tolstói...
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Die komplexe und sympathische Protagonistin Anna Karenina ist zwischen Pflichtgefühl und Lust hin-und hergerissen. Entgegen den gesellschaftlichen Normen der russischen Gesellschaft des 19. Jahrhunderts lässt sie sich auf eine verbotene Romanze mit dem Grafen Alexej Wronskij ein.
Anna Kareninas Zerissenheit spiegelt die des feudalen russischen Kaiserreichs wider, das von den Herausforderungen der Moderne zunehmend überfordert ist. Tolstoi gelingt...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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[2013]
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1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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In Tolstoy's powerful tale of family passions set in Russia in the 1870s, Anna, the young and beautiful wife of a powerful older man, risks more than she can imagine when she runs away with the dashing Count Vronsky.
10) Anna Karenina
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20th Century Fox Entertainment
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c2007
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1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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Story of passion and family conflict set in 19th century upper-class Russia in which the wife of an aristocrat falls in love with a dashing calvary officer.
12) Anna Karenina
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Warner Home Video
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2005
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1 DVD (ca. 93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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Anna Karenina, dutiful wife and doting mother, knows contentment but not passion. That changes when she meets ardent Count Vronsky. For him, she throws away marriage, family, social position and finally her life.
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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[2010]
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4 DVDs (610 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Anna Karenina: When the young wife of a statesman runs off with a young officer, she is outcast and forbidden to see her son. Desperate, the woman comes to believe that life is no longer worth living.
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