Guide to the Classics: Anna Karenina
- Written by Judith Armstrong, Honorary Associate Professor in Arts and Languages & Linguistics, University of Melbourne
An illustration from a 1914 edition of Anna Karenina.Zahar Pichugin/Shutterstock.com
“In order for a book to be good,” said Leo Tolstoy to his wife Sonya on March 2 1877, “one has to love its basic, fundamental idea. Thus, in Anna Karenina, I loved the idea of the family.” These words Sonya copied into her diary on March 3.
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