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Dec 10, 2023
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Jun 25, 2023ekhdong rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Rightfully a classic. Glad to have read it. Outstanding character depictions.
Mar 31, 2023dissymissylessy rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
"some of tolstoy's readers were nonplussed by the idea of a novel about an aristocratic woman who has an affair with an army officer./dumas wrote in L'HOMME-FEMME (1872) that a husband ultimately has the right to kill an unfaithful…
Mar 06, 2023SAPL_Teens rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This book follows Anna Karenina and her friends and family through their lives. This book takes place in Russia, around 1874-76. In this book, Anna and her brother, Obolonky, and their friends, Kitty and Levin, go through some tough times.…
Dec 24, 2022maroon_cat_560 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
It seems intimidating at first, not just because of length but also because the old-fashioned writing is somewhat difficult to comprehend before you get the hang of it. Once I got about 100 pages in, I was already absolutely fascinated.…
Mar 14, 2022
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Jan 23, 2022shishiviolin rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
From start to finish, 'Anna Karenina' blew me off my feet. I was able to see the world clearly from each and every single character's eyes and to experience the whole range of their emotions. I didn’t agree with the worldview and/or…
originalpie
Jan 22, 2022originalpie rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
If anyone out there has the grey cover paperback copy of the book can you please send it to the capilano branch? I checked it out at the Capilano branch, but returned it to West Van and it never made it back. :(
Jul 12, 2021The_Most_Casual_Observer rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
The main plot deals with Anna and Vronsky, who defy their society's rules of marriage, first secretly, and then flagrantly. Society grinds them down, and neither of them is strong enough to withstand it. The modern reader, accustomed to…
May 04, 2021
Which translation is this?
Feb 21, 2021alexqise rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
The book begins with the Dolly Oblonskaya catching her husband, Stiva, cheating on her with their children’s governess. She threatens to leave him for what he’s done. Anna Karenina, Stiva’s sister, visits them and is eventually able to…
Nov 29, 2020AlexaLe rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
It is not often that many are able to peer into the lives of Russian nobility while still covering a wide range of universal truths applicable to every individual in a variety of different situations. However, the novel Anna Karenina by…
Sep 21, 2020Anita_Dickey rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I read this book to fulfill the goal read a book that passes the bechdel test. the bechdel test (according to google) is when two girls talk about something as friends other than a man. I didn't think this was a super great example…
Jun 19, 2020
Test comment on completed list book.
Feb 04, 2020EliK1 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
A classic, which I decided to tackle no matter what. While I focused on the romantic part of the plot, I dismissed the talks about society. It wasn't something that interested me. I have to admit that Anna was probably my least favorite of…
Oct 03, 2019flandavis rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I was so absorbed by this book that I read through my bus stop several times.
Jul 17, 2018gomiami1972 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Wow. Anna Karenina is very well written, the characters are true to themselves, you get keen insight into what Russian upper class society was like in the 1870s, an interesting and essentially believable plot and (everybody's favorite…
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Jan 29, 2018dissymissylessy rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
"Koznyshev, experienced in dialectics, made no reply to Levin's question, but at once switched over the conversation to another aspect of the subject." If you are doing a term paper on the relative greatnesses of French and Russian…
Aug 06, 2017dollface_1 rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
I waited until now (retirement) to read Tolstoy's Anna Karenina...on my reading bucket list. My first Tolstoy, and definitely my last. I'm looking forward to everything else on my list, and glad this one is....so to speak...in the…
Apr 05, 2016Janice21383 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Poor Anna. It is perilous to be neither good nor useful. It's not like AK is an unknown story, so just a few observations that surprised me: compared to the film versions, Vronsky is egotistical and empty-headed, but improves as the story…
Sep 29, 2015lnikolai22 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This took quite a while to read, but it was worth it... Anna herself was, maybe somewhat ironically, my least favourite character in the book. Luckily, she isn't really the main character, or at least she isn't the only main character.…
Kereesa
Jul 22, 2015Kereesa rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This was my first Tolstoy novel. It will not be the last.
Jun 09, 2014stepha89 rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
The relationships the book developed were a highlight. However, it dragged in many places, especially in the parts that dealt with the Russian peasantry and agriculture. If you like a slow pace and a lot of character introspection, you'll…
May 05, 2014anahperic rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I loved this book