Through troubled courtships, reconciliations, marriage and the birth of each one’s first child, Anna and Levin experience joy and despair as they each struggle to find their place in the world and meaning for their lives. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family. The author of Anna Karenina seems to talk rather than write. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. By the end of Anna Karenina, however, one is left with the feeling not so much that one has just read something that Tolstoy has written as that the author has just concluded a long, discursive, conversation with the reader. Levin struggles with self-esteem, and even flees to the country, before gaining courage to return and offer himself to the beautiful and pure Kitty. Translated by Constance Garnett Part One Chapter 1 Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Anna awakes from a loveless marriage to find herself drawn irresistibly to the dashing cavalry officer, Count Vronsky. Two love stories are set against the backdrop of high society in Tsarist Russia. Anna Karenina is acclaimed director Joe Wright’s bold, theatrical new vision of the epic story of love, stirringly adapted from Leo Tolstoy’s great novel by Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love).
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