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Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina sets a private catastrophe beside the ordinary work of a large social world. The catalog points to a public-domain English translation of the novel.

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Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

1877 · Novel · Romance

Anna’s affair and Levin’s search for a workable life run side by side in imperial Russia. Tolstoy gives the social world as much weight as the passion. The link is to a public-domain English translation.