Leo Tolstoy and Anna Karenina

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Anna Karenina was published in 1878 and it has come to be regarded as one of the greatest novels ever written. Tolstoy himself came to dislike and to view all fiction with suspicion, but his devoted wife Sonya copied it out by hand and urged him to write more. Learn more about Tolstoy (a brilliant writer but a difficult man) and his classic novel.

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