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If I had known how fascinating this book was, I would have read it a long time ago. Tolstoy is the Russian version of John Galsworthy( the Forsythe Saga). Russian uppercrust society with its moral system, court life is engrossing. The struggle between passionate love, morality, the marriage system and the position of women in society- always being pulled in multiple directions by propriety, children, love and wondering which way to lean. It is written in short chapters giving fascinating glimpses of the characters and situations. I also bought the Russian version of the movie and it used the same treatment of snapshotting characters and situations. Incredible- a must read.
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Anna Karenina (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
vbergus, January 1, 2011
If I had known how fascinating this book was, I would have read it a long time ago. Tolstoy is the Russian version of John Galsworthy( the Forsythe Saga). Russian uppercrust society with its moral system, court life is engrossing. The struggle between passionate love, morality, the marriage system and the position of women in society- always being pulled in multiple directions by propriety, children, love and wondering which way to lean. It is written in short chapters giving fascinating glimpses of the characters and situations. I also bought the Russian version of the movie and it used the same treatment of snapshotting characters and situations. Incredible- a must read.