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Share Link copied Format epub Published May 02, 2026 Rating No reviews yet ![Anna Karenina](https://fls-a13cb2d7-1b3e-4883-a0bd-297afd110a11.367be3a2035528943240074d0096e0cd.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/works/01kqmxx87gz1b728ym04ww9py3/editions/2026-09-06-html-v1/cover.png?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=d29ce3bb571c165c97a702f29f7aee93%2F20260916%2Fauto%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20260916T142721Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=faa92b50fa329d16815d386cf3d9de7ea829446560599d0e42fbc0a164a47ab9) ## About this work “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” With this unforgettable opening, Leo Tolstoy enters the households, drawing rooms, estates, and public spectacles of nineteenth-century Russia. Anna Karenina follows the consequences of desire and betrayal through Anna’s marriage to Alexey Alexandrovitch and her relationship with Vronsky, while the parallel story of Konstantin Levin and Kitty explores courtship, marriage, work, family, and the search for a meaningful life. Around them move vivid, complicated figures: the unfaithful Stiva Oblonsky, the patient Dolly, doctors and aristocrats, peasants and intellectuals. From a breathless horse race to intimate domestic tensions and searching debates about faith, labor, and society, Tolstoy makes private feeling inseparable from the world that judges it. This edition presents Constance Garnett’s English translation of a vast, humane novel about love, responsibility, and the difficult pursuit of happiness. This Publica.now Classics edition includes a new typographic cover and publisher opening and closing pages. Sample ## Take a look inside PART ONE Chapter 1 Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every person in the house felt that there was no sense in their living together, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one another than they, the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys. The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days. The children ran wild all over the house; the English governess quarreled with the housekeeper, and wrote to a friend asking her to look out for a new situation for her; the man-cook had walked off the day before just at dinner time; the kitchen-maid, and the coachman had given warning. Three days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky—Stiva, as he was called in the fashionable world—woke up at his usual hour, that is, at eight o’clock in the morning, not in his wife’s bedroom, but on the leather-covered sofa in his study. He turned over his stout, well-cared-for person on the springy sofa, as though he would sink into a long sleep again; he vigorously embraced the pillow on the other side and buried his face in it; but all at once he… [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcheckout%2Fanna-karenina) The sample continues in the full work. 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