Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Pros: Beautifully written, highly engaging prose
Cons: See review

Reading “Anna Karenina” a few years ago was my last encounter with Leo Tolstoy’s fiction, and I credit the book for finally making me realize what it was that had always bothered me about Tolstoy.

Generally considered Tolstoy’s runner-up...

Pros: Compelling Characters and Relevant Plots
Cons: As in real life, the good are not saints and the wicked are not punished enough.

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way".

Thus begins Anna Karenina, a novel by Tolstoy which explores the depths of the soul, leaving the reader with a clear picture of human...

Pros: Amazing settings, perfectly realised characters
Cons: I did not like Anna

Anna Karenina is a rich, young, beautiful socialite. She has a successful, respected husband, a large group of wealthy and influential friends, and an intelligent young son. Yet she is bored, and feels as though her life is empty because she has never ...

Pros: Interesting Characters, Highlights Historical Russian Society
Cons: Long, boring narratives from the author, About 400 pages too long

This novel is an 800 page paradox. There is the classic fight between good and evil, which every character seems to be grappling with. The characters themselves seem to be personified as either good or evil also. Each character seems to dapple with...

Pros: A classic of human nature, right and wrong
Cons: Some boring political passages

In 1877, in Russia, Leo Tolstoy wrote one of his two masterpieces, Anna Karenina. What makes the book a classic is that even though social mores have changed dramatically in last 100+ years and the book takes place in a very culturally different country...

Pros: Great book, strong characters, wonderful interweaving of characters.
Cons: none, for me at least.

This was a comment at first(to a review by gietzeng on Anna Karenina)-but it got too long so I'm posting it as a review.

"gietzeng" stated that "the ultimate message of Anna Karenina is that it is better to sacrifice...

Pros: Powerful drama, well-developed characters, great themes
Cons: long and a challenging style of writing

In Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina we are given two main stories that occupy the reader for 800 pages. The first is the story of Anna and her search for love and fulfillment with her husband and lover. The second is the drama of Constantine Levin who is...

Pros: Political and cultural value
Cons: Drawn out at times. Skips around

Anna Kareina is a story about women in an unhappy marriage, who runs off with her lover. She is tortured by three things, the guilt of her affair, no being about to be near and take care of the son subsidy loves, and the conflict she feels in dealing ...

Pros: Emotion is justified, beautifully psychological
Cons: So detailed! A lot of it has no point and does no contribute to plot/emotion.

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy exhibits extreme amounts of romantic elements. It goes very much in depth of thoughts and emotions and eventually ends in a tragedy. The story takes place in the aristocratic society of Russia. Anna Karenina is a very ...