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3 days ago · A modern mental health reading of Anna Karenina shows a character who is routinely jealous, suspicious, alienating people, and explosive, who ends up totally alone. It is well established that Leo Tolstoy poured some of his own struggles with mental health into his eponymous character, including suicidal ideation.
2 days ago · Anna Karenina (1877) tells parallel stories of an adulterous woman trapped by the conventions and falsities of society and of a philosophical landowner (much like Tolstoy), who works alongside the peasants in the fields and seeks to reform their lives.
5 days ago · Official website. Rated R. 2.0 hours, 10 minutes. Synopsis. A bold, theatrical new vision of the epic story of love, adapted from Leo Tolstoy's timeless novel by Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard. The story powerfully explores the capacity for love that surges through the human heart.
1 day ago · War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy This took me 3 months. It was fairly engaging considering the amount of war strategy and politics but does not compare with Anna Karenina in my personal opinion. The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett A children’s novel about a long-lost prince reclaiming the throne of a warring European nation.
1 day ago · The second book I would say is Anna Karenina, which I read and memorized at the age of ten! It was available in my abuela’s library, so imagine my shock when a film was made. Leo Tolstoy was an excellent writer, so I felt the films didn’t do it enough justice.
5 days ago · Garbo in Anna Karenina (1935) Bettmann/Getty. The star brought the title character to life in this adaptation of Leo Tolstoy‘s great Russian novel, Anna Karenina. 1936: Garbo in a gown Garbo in Camille (1936) Metro Goldwyn-Mayer/De Carvalho Collection/Getty
3 days ago · Product Information. First published in 1878, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is the tragic story of aristocrat Anna Karenina and her ill-fated affair with the cavalry officer Count Vronsky. Although passionately in love, the couple finds their romance doomed by the sexual mores of their time and place, and the double standards that apply to men ...
