![]() ![]() Her mother, a princess, also believes that Vronsky would make a better match for his daughter. Because Levin is not part of the high society that Kitty belongs to, she declines his proposal. Before he does, though, Levin, who has been a great friend of Kitty’s family ever since childhood and truly loves her, asks her first. She’s no longer content with her husband, Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin, and is looking for the kind of romance one finds in the novels she enjoys reading.ĭolly’s sister, Kitty, is also looking for the same kind of romance, which is why she gets excited when she thinks an officer named Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky is going to propose to her. Even though she is able to convince her friend to forgive Stiva, Anna herself is not exactly in a state of marital bliss. Stiva’s wife, Dolly, discovered that her husband had been unfaithful to her, and now refuses to talk to him. That story begins when her brother, Stepan Arkadyevich Oblonsky, or Stiva, asks her to come to his home in Moscow to help him with his marital problems. However, one cannot help but feel that, after a while, Anna is just a supporting character in her own story. For the most part, the novel is brilliant in its depiction of the lives and loves of the two main characters-Konstantin Dmitrievich Levin and, of course, Anna Arkadyevna Karenin-who end up taking different moral and spiritual paths. This statement may surprise those who have heard it declared not just one of the greatest, but the greatest novel ever written. But unlike Tolstoy’s other magnum opus, War and Peace, Anna Karenina is much more straightforward in getting that point across. Even though it’s a very Russian novel that occasionally addresses problems in that country during the nineteenth century, it appeals to modern-day readers because Tolstoy’s works show that the events that have the greatest impact on our lives are not the major ones, but the ordinary, everyday ones. ![]() It’s easy to see why: the novel’s two main plots revolve around characters who are just trying to find happiness through love. For the past 140 years, Anna Karenina has been loved by millions of readers all over the world. ![]()
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