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    A Study Guide for Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
    A Study Guide for Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
    A Study Guide for Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
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    A Study Guide for Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

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    A Study Guide for Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 27, 2015
    ISBN9781535827263
    A Study Guide for Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

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      A Study Guide for Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina - Gale

      Novels for Students, Volume 28

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      Anna Karenina

      LEO TOLSTOY

      1873-1877

      INTRODUCTION

      When it was first serialized in the Russian periodical Ruskii Vestnik from 1873 to 1877, Anna Karenina was a powerful and controversial novel. Indeed, to many readers, including Tolstoy himself, it signaled a radical shift in the already impressive history of the novel as a literary form. With its sweeping and complex plot lines, subtle characterizations, and blend of romance and social commentary, Anna Karenina is often mentioned in the same breath as Cervantes's Don Quixote (1605) and Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (1759-1767), both of which have permanently altered and defined the novel. Indeed, these books reset the standard for novel writing.

      Although Anna Karenina is often considered a novel about love, lust, and adultery, it is interesting to realize that one of the most crucial plot elements (the scene during which Anna and Vrónsky consummate their affair) is strategically underdeveloped. It is marked only by a series of ellipses linking chapters ten and eleven in the second part of the novel. Sex is ostensibly erased from a novel about passion and adultery, and thus the book emphasizes ideas rather than actions. Moreover, as Tolstoy underscores, it is the ripple of repercussions stemming from the characters' actions that lead ultimately to disappointment. In the final and tragic act of Anna's suicide, readers recognize the theme that Tolstoy has been building towards:

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