Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness.
year: 1965, 2002, 1992, 1970, 2010, 2000, 1997, 1978, 1961, 2008, 2004, 2012, 1995, 1993, 1950, 1980, 1966, 2017
call number/section: 1000, 891.73
subjects: russia, history, 1917-1991, soviet union, fiction, married women, fiction, adultery, wives, historical fiction, russia, love stories, allegories, social life and customs, 1533-1917, didactic fiction, fiction, karenina, anna (fictitious character), fiction, soviet union, karenina, anna (fictional character), romance fiction, allegories
Editions
Tolstoy, Leo
Modern Library (1965)
A woman of fine nature forsakes her husband for a lover, and after a bitter experience commits suicide.
Schools: 5
Tolstoy, Leo
Signet Classic (2002)
In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage.
Schools: 2
Tolstoy, Leo
Distributed by Random House (1992)
In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage.
Schools: 3
Tolstoy, Leo
W. W. Norton (1970)
Schools: 1
Tolstoy, Leo
Vintage Books (2010)
In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage.
Schools: 1
Tolstoy, Leo
Modern Library (2000)
In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage. Includes an introduction by Mona Simpson, commentary, and a reading group guide.
Schools: 10
Tolstoy, Leo
Barnes & Noble Books (1997)
Anna's love for Vronsky causes her to break the rules of Russian society and sacrifice her home and family - and eventually her life.
Schools: 1
Tolstoy, Leo
Penguin (1978)
In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage.
Schools: 3
Tolstoy, Leo
New American Library (1961)
In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage.
Schools: 3
Tolstoy, Leo
Oxford University Press (2008)
In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage.
Schools: 0
Tolstoy, Leo
Barnes & Noble Books (2004)
Schools: 0
Tolstoy, Leo
Vintage Books (2012)
In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage.
Schools: 1
Tolstoy, Leo
Oxford University Press (1995)
Schools: 1
Tolstoy, Leo
QPB (1993)
Story of the doomed love between Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky set during the reign of Czar Nicholas I of Russia.
Schools: 0
Tolstoy, Leo
Modern Library (1950)
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness.
Schools: 0
Tolstoy, Leo
Modern Library
Schools: 0
Tolstoy, Leo
Modern Library (1993)
Presents the nineteenth-century Russian novelist's classic in which a young woman is destroyed when she attempts to live outside the moral law of her society.
Schools: 0
Tolstoy, Leo
New American Library (1980)
Schools: 1
Tolstoy, Leo
Modern Library (1950)
Schools: 0
Tolstoy, Leo
Dodd, Mead (1966)
Schools: 0
Tolstoy, Lev Nikolaevich, Graf, 1828-1910
Novel about a young woman, who is married to a much older man, and her love for a young count.
Schools: 0
Tolstoy, Leo
In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage.
Schools: 3
Tolstoy, Lev Nikolaevich, Graf, 1828-1910
Novel about a young woman, who is married to a much older man, and her love for a young count.
Schools: 0
Tolstoy, Leo
Modern Library (1950)
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness.
Schools: 1
Tolstoy, Leo
Dodd, Mead (1966)
Anna Karenina leaves home and husband to give herself to Count Vronsky.
Schools: 0
Tolstoy, Leo
Story of the doomed love between Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky set during the reign of Czar Nicholas I of Russia.
Schools: 0
Tolstoy, Leo
Oxford University Press (2017)
In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage.
Schools: 1