num_pages: 808
description: Anna Karenina was begun in 1873, seven years after the publication of War &amp; Peace, and appeared in installments from 1875-1877. It's one of Tolstoy's masterpieces, written at the height of his power and reflecting almost every aspect of his method and attitudes.Set in the period following the Emancipation of the Serfs in 1861, a time of intense social change, it's the story of a woman who refuses to be fettered by social conventions, the wife of a government bureaucrat who falls in love with a rich army officer and leaves husband and child for her lover: As Matthew Arnold wrote, "We are not to take 'Anna Karenina' as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life."
language: English
title: Anna Karenina
titlecomplete: Anna Karenina
characters: Prince Stepan "Stiva" Arkadyevitch Oblonsky, Konstantin "Kostya" Dmitrievitch Levin, Princess Ekaterina "Kitty" Aleksandrovna Shcherbatskaya, Anna Arkadyevna Karenina, Count Aleksei Kirillovich Vronsky
genres: Fiction, Historical, Romance, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Russian Literature, Historical Fiction, Russia
ratings_count: 819477
places: Russia
awards: awardedAt: 1325404800000
name: Premio literatura rusa en España, awardedAt: 1325404800000
name: Read Russia Prize
category: Classic Russian Literature for Victor Gallego Ballestero
publisher: A Signet Classic