num_pages: 873
description: Adultery shakes the Oblonsky household when Dolly discovers husband Stiva's affair with a former governess. Stiva's sister, Anna Karenina, arrives to help keep the Russian family together. Heroine Anna takes her own lover, Count Vronsky, which introduces a downward spiral in her marriage to Karenin and, ultimately, in her union with Vronsky. Anna's life ends in suicide. In contrast, Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical hero, Levin, finds salvation in faith.
language: English
title: Anna Karenina
titlecomplete: Anna Karenina
characters: Count Aleksei Kirillovich Vronsky, Princess Ekaterina "Kitty" Aleksandrovna Shcherbatskaya, Anna Arkadyevna Karenina, Prince Stepan "Stiva" Arkadyevitch Oblonsky, Konstantin "Kostya" Dmitrievitch Levin
genres: Historical, Literature, Classics, Novels, Russian Literature, 19th Century, Russia, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 819262
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: Bantam Books