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A famous legend surrounding the creation of Anna Karenina tells us that Tolstoy began writing a cautionary tale about adultery and ended up by falling in love with his magnificent heroine. It is rare to find a reader of the book who doesn't experience the same kind of emotional upheaval: Anna Karenina is filled with major and minor characters who exist in their own right and fully embody their mid-nineteenth-century Russian milieu, but it still belongs...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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[2013]
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1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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In Tolstoy's powerful tale of family passions set in Russia in the 1870s, Anna, the young and beautiful wife of a powerful older man, risks more than she can imagine when she runs away with the dashing Count Vronsky.
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León Tolstói (1828-1910) es reconocido como uno de los escritores más importantes de la novela rusa y de la literatura mundial. Nacido en una antigua familia de la nobleza, sus obras constituyen un fiel reflejo de la sociedad rusa de la época, convirtiéndolo en uno de los representantes más reconocidos del realismo.
En "Anna Karenina" (que empezó a publicarse como un folletín en 1875, y se publicaría por primera vez entera en 1877), Tolstói...
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Anna Karenina (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Leo Tolstoy
Making the reading experience fun!
Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides: chapter-by-chapter analysis
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Lively and accessible, these guides are perfect for late-night...
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Die komplexe und sympathische Protagonistin Anna Karenina ist zwischen Pflichtgefühl und Lust hin-und hergerissen. Entgegen den gesellschaftlichen Normen der russischen Gesellschaft des 19. Jahrhunderts lässt sie sich auf eine verbotene Romanze mit dem Grafen Alexej Wronskij ein.
Anna Kareninas Zerissenheit spiegelt die des feudalen russischen Kaiserreichs wider, das von den Herausforderungen der Moderne zunehmend überfordert ist. Tolstoi gelingt...
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Warner Home Video
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2005
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1 DVD (ca. 93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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Anna Karenina, dutiful wife and doting mother, knows contentment but not passion. That changes when she meets ardent Count Vronsky. For him, she throws away marriage, family, social position and finally her life.
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As Viv Groskop knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened to a person has already happened in the Russian classics: from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina), to being hopelessly in love with someone who doesn't love you back (Turgenev's A Month in the Country), or being socially anxious about your appearance (all of Chekhov's work). In The Anna Karenina Fix, a sort of literary self-help memoir, Groskop mines...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, which he claimed as his first true, novel despite having written several before it.
As an 1877 realist novel, Anna Karenina follows a Russian wife in the midst of a love affair, who risks all she has for a lover. Moreover, Tolstoy discusses the betrayal by weaving in themes such as forgiveness, social class, and jealousy. This Bright Notes...
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As Viv Groskop knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened to a person has already happened in the Russian classics: from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina), to being hopelessly in love with someone who doesn't love you back (Turgenev's A Month in the Country), or being socially anxious about your appearance (all of Chekhov's work). In The Anna Karenina Fix, a sort of literary self-help memoir, Groskop mines...
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ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura Anna Karenina, una de las obras más grandes de la historia de la literatura. El nombre de la novela es el de su protagonista, que Tolstói sitúa en el centro de una trama de historias de pasión humana y adulterio enmarcadas en la vieja Rusia, dividida por las clases sociales.
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The story behind the origins of Anna Karenina and the turbulent life and times of Leo Tolstoy.
Anna Karenina is one of the most nuanced characters in world literature and we return to her, and the novel she propels, again and again. Remarkably, there has not yet been an examination of Leo Tolstoy specifically through the lens of this novel. Critic and professor Bob Blaisdell unravels Tolstoy's family, literary, and day-to-day life during the period...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Anna Karenina with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy is one of his most famous novels and a masterpiece of Russian literature. It tells the story of a young woman of noble birth in 19th century Russia, and her tragic adulterous love. More than a love story, this work is a portrait of the Russia of the author's time and...
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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[2010]
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4 DVDs (610 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Anna Karenina: When the young wife of a statesman runs off with a young officer, she is outcast and forbidden to see her son. Desperate, the woman comes to believe that life is no longer worth living.
A farewell to arms: When an injured American ambulance driver and English nurse desert to Switzerland, the danger they've struggled to escape is replaced by a more serious threat.
Les misérables: 1935 and 1952 adaptations of the Victor Hugo classic...
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