num_pages: 963
description: A famous legend surrounding the creation of Anna Karenina tells us that Tolstoy began writing a cautionary tale about adultery and ended up 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 entirely to the woman whose name it bears, whose portrait is one of the truest ever made by a writer.
language: English
title: Anna Karenina
titlecomplete: Anna Karenina
characters: Count Aleksei Kirillovich Vronsky, Anna Arkadyevna Karenina, Prince Stepan "Stiva" Arkadyevitch Oblonsky, Princess Ekaterina "Kitty" Aleksandrovna Shcherbatskaya, Konstantin "Kostya" Dmitrievitch Levin
genres: Russia, Historical Fiction, Historical, Novels, Literature, Russian Literature, Classics, Romance, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 819308
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: Everyman's Library