Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina is an 1877 novel by Leo Tolstoy, widely regarded as one of the greatest works of literary fiction.
The story follows a Russian aristocrat's affair and tragic downfall.
The title character's name has become shorthand for doomed romantic passion or a woman destroyed by social constraints: She saw herself as a kind of Anna Karenina, trapped by convention.
Romantic entanglement outside commitment
- passionIntense emotional drive
- infidelityDisloyalty to a partner
- forbiddenNot allowed
- desireIntense wanting
seduction · jealousy · heartbreak · adultery · scandal · devotion · yearning · renunciation
Voluntary death by oneself
- trainRail vehicle or instruct
- despairTotal absence of hope
- downfallSudden loss of power
- fatePredetermined course of events
doom · anguish · isolation · madness · morphine · unraveling · jealousy · paranoia
- realismAccepting things as they are
- literatureBody of written works
- fictionImagined narrative work
- epicImpressively grand in scope
narrative · prose · chapters · serialization · Levin · Kitty · Moscow · Petersburg
Russia's capital city
- PetersburgCity name, multiple locations
- samovarWater-heating tea vessel
- troikaSet of three, Russian-derived
- dachaSeasonal rural dwelling
steppes · sleigh · provincial · nihilism · emancipation · reform
affair
Romantic entanglement outside commitment
- passionIntense emotional drive
- infidelityDisloyalty to a partner
- forbiddenNot allowed
desire · seduction · jealousy · heartbreak · adultery · scandal · devotion · yearning · renunciation · obsession
suicide
Voluntary death by oneself
fate · doom · anguish · isolation · madness · morphine · unraveling · jealousy · paranoia · alienation
Tolstoy
- realismAccepting things as they are
- literatureBody of written works
- fictionImagined narrative work
epic · narrative · prose · chapters · serialization · Levin · Kitty · Moscow · Petersburg · omniscient
Moscow
Russia's capital city
- PetersburgCity name, multiple locations
- samovarWater-heating tea vessel
- troikaSet of three, Russian-derived
dacha · steppes · sleigh · provincial · nihilism · emancipation · reform
nobility
Titled ruling class
gentry · etiquette · manor · servants · privilege · lineage · salon · protocol · status · wealth
- Russian LiteratureTolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Pushkin, Nabokov
- Russian ClassicsWar and Peace, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Doctor Zhivago, Cherry Orchard
- Slavic LiteratureDostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Pushkin, Nabokov
- TolstoyWar and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy, Resurrection, Strider
- Russian Translationtranslated works, translators, Russian classics, War and Peace, Crime and Punishment
- Tolstoy womenKitty
Anna KareninaJane Eyre
Elizabeth Bennet · Jean Valjean · Ebenezer Scrooge · Odysseus · survivor