Anna Karenina

Primary Sources:

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• Free, full online text of this book: Click here

• Gutenberg Project e-book options: Click here

• Quotes compiled from this book: Click here

• Quotes compiled from this author: Click here

• Quotes about this book/author: Click here

• Audiobook recording on Youtube: Click here

  • Audiobook with Maggie Gyllenhaal: Link

Classroom Sources:

Secondary Sources:

• Russian BBC mini series film of Anna Karenina. In Russian with English subtitles, (rated R because of brief nudity):

  • Part 1

  • Part 2

  • Part 3

  • Part 4

  • Part 5

  • Part 6

  • Part 7

  • Part 8

• 2000 English film of Anna Karenina, with some changes:

  • • Part 1

    • Part 2

    • Part 3

    • Part 4

• Fascinating true story how Anna Karenina saved the life of a prisoner in solitary confinement: Link

• New Yorker Essay: Is Anna Karenina a love story? Link

• The Guardian Essay: Rereading Anna Karenina: Link

• New York Times Article: What Anna Karenina taught me about living with depression: Link

• The Moral Urgency of Anna Karenina: Link

• Lectures with Dr. Rosamund Bartlett, professor at Oxford:

  • Great hour long intro to Anna Karenina, contextual info and issues with translating (guest lecture at Univ of Michigan): Link

  • Why is Tolstoy's Anna Karenina still so popular? Link

  • On Modernity and the Meaning of Life in Anna Karenina: Link

  • Tolstoy's Depiction of Women: Link

  • On the challenges of translating Anna Karenina: Link

  • Blog post by Dr. Bartlett about Anna K as the "Woman's Iliad": Link

• Irwin Weil on Anna Karenina:

  • Lecture 4: Part 1 and Part 2

  • Lecture 5: Part 1 and Part 2

• Irwin Weil on Tolstoy:

  • Lecture 1: Part 1 and Part 2

  • Lecture 2: Part 1 and Part 2

• Nabokov lectures on Anna Karenina:

  • Part 1

  • Part 2

• Tolstoy or Dostoevsky? 8 experts weigh in: Link

• Tolstoy or Dickens: 2 professors debate with dramatic scenes to illustrate (starring Tom Hiddleston): Link

• Andrew Kaufman, professor at UVA, TED Talk, "The Inmate, the Student, and Tolsoy: Link

• Andrew Kaufman, professor at UVA, lecture on Understanding Tolstoy's Humanity: Link

• Andrew Kaufman, professor at UVA, lecture on "Was Tolstoy Too Optimistic About Human Nature?": Link

• SPOILER ALERT: Film comparison of different Anna Karenina scenes: Link

  • 1967 Russian trailer: Link

  • 1967 Full Russian Film (in French): Link

• Rare Video Footage of Leo Tolstoy: Link

• Rare audio of Leo Tolstoy's Speaking: Link

• SPOILER ALERT: New Yorker video article about train subway operators: Link

• New York Books Article: Dreams and Anna Karenina: Link