Is Anna Karenina difficult to read?

Anna Karenina isn’t a difficult book. But it is long, and Tolstoy’s great work is perceived as a difficult book. So here are a few tips for how to read Anna Karenina and make the work much more enjoyable and easy to get through, from a lover, teacher, lecturer, and book club host for the book.

What should I read after Anna Karenina?

Books very similar in plot and method include:

• Clarissa and Pamela by Samuel Richardson.
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
• Middlemarch by George Eliot.
• Miss Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.
• Mansfield Park and Persuasion by Jane Austen.

Which Tolstoy book should I start with?

Tolstoy… Start with some of his stories and novellas. The collected stories is a very large volume, but start with the Sebastopol Stories, Short novels next: Family Happiness, The Cossacks. Death of Ivan Illich. Now it’s time to read War & Peace and Anna Karenina.

How old is Vronsky?

Both Anna and Vronsky are around 25-30 years old. Also both are of the same age. Anna was 27 years old. She was married at 18 and in the movie she said to her husband that they are like 9 years together.

Is Anna Karenina rated PG 13?

Age Appropriate for: 15+. The R rating is mostly for erotic content. There isn’t really any cursing; the most violence is when a man gets cut in half underneath a train; a horse has to be put out of its misery; and a suggested suicide.

What inspired Tolstoy to write Anna Karenina?

Leo Tolstoy wrote with great realism. The character of Anna Karenina was likely inspired by the eldest daughter of Alexander Pushkin, a Russian poet. While Anna Karenina is considered a tragic romance, it also showcases Tolstoy’s thoughts and criticisms of 19th century Russian aristocracy.

How many pages are in the book Anna Karenina?

Anna Karenina. A complex novel in eight parts, with more than a dozen major characters, it is spread over more than 800 pages (depending on the translation), typically contained in two volumes. It deals with themes of betrayal, faith, family, marriage, Imperial Russian society, desire, and rural vs. city life.

What is Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy about?

About Anna Karenina. Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy’s classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg .

Who is the author of “Anna Karenina”?

Anna Karenina (Russian: «Анна Каренина», IPA: [ˈanːə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə]) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878.