Library
Search
Anna Kareninais a novel by Russian authorGraf Leo Tolstoy. The story of woman, who once mediated to solve family problems on account of adulteries of his brother, fall herself in a similar situation later. Anna Karenina, wife of Karenin a statesman. Infatuated, fell in love and later married to a young cavalry officer, Anna’s activities are considered as disgraceful by the society. Her plea for divorce, from her husband is realized in an ironical situation.
Unable to mingle with society unlike her young husband, she started using sedatives to sleep. This novel is written in eight parts and explores many lives of adulteries and social issues existed in the then Russian society. Anna Karenina is considered the flawless work of literature by the literary world and memorized as one the best literary works of yester years.
Saying good-bye to the princess, Sergey Ivanovitch was joined by Katavasov; together they got into a carriage full to overflowing, and the train started. At Tsaritsino station the train was met by a c…
While the train was stopping at the provincial town, Sergey Ivanovitch did not go to the refreshment room, but walked up and down the platform. The first time he passed Vronsky’s compartment he notice…
In the slanting evening shadows cast by the baggage piled up on the platform, Vronsky in his long overcoat and slouch hat, with his hands in his pockets, strode up and down, like a wild beast in a cag…
Sergey Ivanovitch had not telegraphed to his brother to send to meet him, as he did not know when he should be able to leave Moscow. Levin was not at home when Katavasov and Sergey Ivanovitch in a fly…
Agafea Mihalovna went out on tiptoe; the nurse let down the blind, chased a fly out from under the muslin canopy of the crib, and a bumblebee struggling on the window-frame, and sat down waving a fade…
Ever since, by his beloved brother’s deathbed, Levin had first glanced into the questions of life and death in the light of these new convictions, as he called them, which had during the period from h…
These doubts fretted and harassed him, growing weaker or stronger from time to time, but never leaving him. He read and thought, and the more he read and the more he thought, the further he felt from …
When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair, but he left off questioning himself about it. It seemed as though he kne…
The day on which Sergey Ivanovitch came to Pokrovskoe was one of Levin’s most painful days. It was the very busiest working time, when all the peasantry show an extraordinary intensity of self-sacrifi…
Levin strode along the highroad, absorbed not so much in his thoughts (he could not yet disentangle them) as in his spiritual condition, unlike anything he had experienced before. The words uttered by…
Going out of the nursery and being again alone, Levin went back at once to the thought, in which there was something no…
During the whole of that day, in the extremely different conversations in which he took part, only as it were with the …
The old prince and Sergey Ivanovitch got into the trap and drove off; the rest of the party hastened homewards on foot.…
Sergey Ivanovitch, being practiced in argument, did not reply, but at once turned the conversation to another aspect of…
"Do you know, Kostya, with whom Sergey Ivanovitch traveled on his way here?" said Dolly, doling out cucumbers…
Levin looked before him and saw a herd of cattle, then he caught sight of his trap with Raven in the shafts, and the co…
And Levin remembered a scene he had lately witnessed between Dolly and her children. The children, left to themselves, …
Levin strode along the highroad, absorbed not so much in his thoughts (he could not yet disentangle them) as in his spi…
Dale Breckenridgehas written many books on self development including like "How…
Read more
Charlotte-Bronte'sJane Eyrethe story of a poor orphan girl, whose growth from t…
Read more
Our Little Cuban Cousin is written by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade. Written aft…
Read moreWelcome to GoodNovel world of fiction. If you like this novel, or you are an idealist hoping to explore a perfect world, and also want to become an original novel author online to increase income, you can join our family to read or create various types of books, such as romance novel, epic reading, werewolf novel, fantasy novel, history novel and so on. If you are a reader, high quality novels can be selected here. If you are an author, you can obtain more inspiration from others to create more brilliant works, what’s more, your works on our platform will catch more attention and win more admiration from readers.
