Anna Karenina – Modern Library Classics
June 5, July 3, & August 7, 2022 @ 2pm
Brad's Big Fat Book Club:Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Virtual Event
Event Details
Don’t be intimidated by the Big Ones. We'’'re here to help with Brad's Big Fat Book Club, meeting virtually the first Sunday of every month, starting Sunday June 5th @ 2PM with our first meeting on Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, subsequent meetings will be on July, 3rd and August 7th at 2PM. Reading the book is not required for the first meeting - all are welcome to join and learn more about the book club from Brad. Each book will be discussed for three months. This book club is free to join and you simply need to click on the provided link to register.
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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. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer. Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, and in doing so captures a breathtaking tapestry of late-nineteenth-century Russian society. As Matthew Arnold wrote in his celebrated essay on Tolstoy, "We are not to take Anna Karenina as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life."