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9.85k reviews for:

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

3.97 AVERAGE

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

middlemarch’s darker moodier cousin. also def one of the Best Of All Time. now to watch the 3 hr keira knightley movie ……..
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I could quote nearly everything. I consume every word of Tolstoy unlike any other writer. So for now:

"Stepan Arkadyich smiled. He knew so well this feeling of Levin's, knew that for him all the girls in the world were divided into two sort: one sort was all the girls in the world except her, and these girls had all human weaknesses and were very ordinary girls; the other sort was her alone, with no weaknesses and higher than everything human."

Which sets up this horribly painful quote, after Kitty's rejection of Levin's proposal, which awkwardly left him in a group including the man Kitty loved (Vronsky):

"Kitty got up from her little table and, as she passed by, her eyes met Levin's. She pitied him with all her heart, the more so as she was the cause of his unhappiness. 'If I can be forgiven, forgive me,' her eyes said, 'I'm so happy.'

'I hate everybody, including you and myself,' his eyes answered, an he picked up his hat."

¡fiiin!

Lengthy, too lengthy. But it did hold my interest.