Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
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“950 pages later. The greatest. What should I read next | A great novel that I have read three times. | I really wasn't expecting to like it. I thought I wouldn't want to finish an 800page book, but then I started slowing down and reading the same chapters over and over. You fall in love with the characters; you grow up with. | If you've never read a novel pick up "Anna Karenina" and you will have the most intensely jolting and cinematic experience ever. Great book. | Rereading Tolstoy s Anna Karenina one would have to wonder wether a better book was ever written With great respect to Dostoevsky, Marquez,Dickens ,Allende ,Coelho, Soyinka, Sembene, Conrad,Eco,Kafka, Murukami, Roth ,Achebe and many many others”
Source →“950 pages later. The greatest. What should I read next | A great novel that I have read three times. | I really wasn't expecting to like it. I thought I wouldn't want to finish an 800page book, but then I started slowing down and reading the same chapters over and over. You fall in love with the characters; you grow up with. | If you've never read a novel pick up "Anna Karenina" and you will have the most intensely jolting and cinematic experience ever. Great book. | Rereading Tolstoy s Anna Karenina one would have to wonder wether a better book was ever written With great respect to Dostoevsky, Marquez,Dickens ,Allende ,Coelho, Soyinka, Sembene, Conrad,Eco,Kafka, Murukami, Roth ,Achebe and many many others”
Source →“950 pages later. The greatest. What should I read next | A great novel that I have read three times. | I really wasn't expecting to like it. I thought I wouldn't want to finish an 800page book, but then I started slowing down and reading the same chapters over and over. You fall in love with the characters; you grow up with. | If you've never read a novel pick up "Anna Karenina" and you will have the most intensely jolting and cinematic experience ever. Great book. | Rereading Tolstoy s Anna Karenina one would have to wonder wether a better book was ever written With great respect to Dostoevsky, Marquez,Dickens ,Allende ,Coelho, Soyinka, Sembene, Conrad,Eco,Kafka, Murukami, Roth ,Achebe and many many others”
Source →“950 pages later. The greatest. What should I read next | A great novel that I have read three times. | I really wasn't expecting to like it. I thought I wouldn't want to finish an 800page book, but then I started slowing down and reading the same chapters over and over. You fall in love with the characters; you grow up with. | If you've never read a novel pick up "Anna Karenina" and you will have the most intensely jolting and cinematic experience ever. Great book. | Rereading Tolstoy s Anna Karenina one would have to wonder wether a better book was ever written With great respect to Dostoevsky, Marquez,Dickens ,Allende ,Coelho, Soyinka, Sembene, Conrad,Eco,Kafka, Murukami, Roth ,Achebe and many many others”
Source →“950 pages later. The greatest. What should I read next | A great novel that I have read three times. | I really wasn't expecting to like it. I thought I wouldn't want to finish an 800page book, but then I started slowing down and reading the same chapters over and over. You fall in love with the characters; you grow up with. | If you've never read a novel pick up "Anna Karenina" and you will have the most intensely jolting and cinematic experience ever. Great book. | Rereading Tolstoy s Anna Karenina one would have to wonder wether a better book was ever written With great respect to Dostoevsky, Marquez,Dickens ,Allende ,Coelho, Soyinka, Sembene, Conrad,Eco,Kafka, Murukami, Roth ,Achebe and many many others”
Source →“950 pages later. The greatest. What should I read next | A great novel that I have read three times. | I really wasn't expecting to like it. I thought I wouldn't want to finish an 800page book, but then I started slowing down and reading the same chapters over and over. You fall in love with the characters; you grow up with. | If you've never read a novel pick up "Anna Karenina" and you will have the most intensely jolting and cinematic experience ever. Great book. | Rereading Tolstoy s Anna Karenina one would have to wonder wether a better book was ever written With great respect to Dostoevsky, Marquez,Dickens ,Allende ,Coelho, Soyinka, Sembene, Conrad,Eco,Kafka, Murukami, Roth ,Achebe and many many others”
Source →“950 pages later. The greatest. What should I read next | A great novel that I have read three times. | I really wasn't expecting to like it. I thought I wouldn't want to finish an 800page book, but then I started slowing down and reading the same chapters over and over. You fall in love with the characters; you grow up with. | If you've never read a novel pick up "Anna Karenina" and you will have the most intensely jolting and cinematic experience ever. Great book. | Rereading Tolstoy s Anna Karenina one would have to wonder wether a better book was ever written With great respect to Dostoevsky, Marquez,Dickens ,Allende ,Coelho, Soyinka, Sembene, Conrad,Eco,Kafka, Murukami, Roth ,Achebe and many many others”
Source →“950 pages later. The greatest. What should I read next | A great novel that I have read three times. | I really wasn't expecting to like it. I thought I wouldn't want to finish an 800page book, but then I started slowing down and reading the same chapters over and over. You fall in love with the characters; you grow up with. | If you've never read a novel pick up "Anna Karenina" and you will have the most intensely jolting and cinematic experience ever. Great book. | Rereading Tolstoy s Anna Karenina one would have to wonder wether a better book was ever written With great respect to Dostoevsky, Marquez,Dickens ,Allende ,Coelho, Soyinka, Sembene, Conrad,Eco,Kafka, Murukami, Roth ,Achebe and many many others”
Source →“950 pages later. The greatest. What should I read next | A great novel that I have read three times. | I really wasn't expecting to like it. I thought I wouldn't want to finish an 800page book, but then I started slowing down and reading the same chapters over and over. You fall in love with the characters; you grow up with. | If you've never read a novel pick up "Anna Karenina" and you will have the most intensely jolting and cinematic experience ever. Great book. | Rereading Tolstoy s Anna Karenina one would have to wonder wether a better book was ever written With great respect to Dostoevsky, Marquez,Dickens ,Allende ,Coelho, Soyinka, Sembene, Conrad,Eco,Kafka, Murukami, Roth ,Achebe and many many others”
Source →“950 pages later. The greatest. What should I read next | A great novel that I have read three times. | I really wasn't expecting to like it. I thought I wouldn't want to finish an 800page book, but then I started slowing down and reading the same chapters over and over. You fall in love with the characters; you grow up with. | If you've never read a novel pick up "Anna Karenina" and you will have the most intensely jolting and cinematic experience ever. Great book. | Rereading Tolstoy s Anna Karenina one would have to wonder wether a better book was ever written With great respect to Dostoevsky, Marquez,Dickens ,Allende ,Coelho, Soyinka, Sembene, Conrad,Eco,Kafka, Murukami, Roth ,Achebe and many many others”
Source →Recommended by 12 notable people, including Jordan Peterson and Oprah Winfrey
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Recommended by 25 sources and appears in Fiction, Classic, and Books Recommended by CEOs.
The novel opens with a scene introducing Prince Stepan Arkadyevich Oblonsky ("Stiva"), a Moscow aristocrat and civil servant who has been unfaithful to his wife Darya Alexandrovna ("Dolly"). Dolly has discovered his affair with the family's governess, and the household and family are in turmoil. Stiva's affair and his reaction to his wife's distress show an amorous personality that he cannot seem to suppress. In the midst of the turmoil, Stiva informs the household that his married sister, Anna Arkadyevna Karenina, is coming to visit from Saint Petersburg. Meanwhile, Stiva's childhood friend, Konstantin Dmitrievich Levin ("Kostya"), arrives in Moscow with the aim of proposing to Dolly's…
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Recommended by 25 sources and appears in Fiction, Classic, and Books Recommended by CEOs.
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“950 pages later. The greatest. What should I read next | A great novel that I have read three times. | I really wasn't expecting to like it. I thought I wouldn't want to finish an 800page book, but then I started slowing down and reading the same chapters over and over. You fall in love with the characters; you grow up with. | If you've never read a novel pick up "Anna Karenina" and you will have the most intensely jolting and cinematic experience ever. Great book. | Rereading Tolstoy s Anna Karenina one would have to wonder wether a better book was ever written With great respect to Dostoevsky, Marquez,Dickens ,Allende ,Coelho, Soyinka, Sembene, Conrad,Eco,Kafka, Murukami, Roth ,Achebe and many many others”
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