How you explore Anna Karenina on Literah
The cast, the places, the objects, the plot, and the author’s own words — each one a card in a feed you scroll on your phone. One at a time, at your pace, in any order you like.
- Built for your phone. Literah is designed for mobile, so your worlds travel with you. On a laptop it shows a QR code to carry the world to your phone.
- A feed, not a wall of text. 30 characters, 19 places, 15 objects and 7 plot beats, each its own card with its own illustration.
- The author’s own words. 39 passages of Anna Karenina sit in the feed verbatim, exactly as Leo Tolstoy wrote them, each with a short reading of what it is doing. The map is ours; the prose is always the book’s.
- The same scroll, a better world. The gesture you already give away to feeds, spent on Leo Tolstoy instead.
The Anna Karenina feed, as it appears in your mobile
The plot of Anna Karenina
The story beat by beat, as Literah maps it.
- All Unhappy Families
- Anna and Vronsky
- Levin on the Land
- The Race and the Confession
- Forgiveness and New Beginnings
- Anna's Isolation
- The Station and the Stars
The author's pen in Anna Karenina
The passages themselves, Leo Tolstoy's own words, as Literah maps it.
- Happy and Unhappy Familiesch. 1
- Confusion In the Oblonskys’ Housech. 1
- The Idiotic Smilech. 1
- Forgetting His Despairch. 2
- Pretending She Was Goingch. 4
- Levin Takes The Scythech. 5
- Joy And Dreadch. 5
- Everyone Looks Their Waych. 7
- Approaching Her on the Icech. 9
- A Warning About Vronskych. 9
- Kitty's Jealous Accusationch. 11
- Loading Hay Togetherch. 12
- Living For His Soulch. 12
- The Question In Initialsch. 13
- Kitty Asks To Goch. 14
- Kitty Alive His Son Strangech. 15
- Love And Forgivenessch. 17
- Not Knowing How to Askch. 17
- An Omen of Evilch. 18
- Vronsky’s Double Lifech. 18
The characters of Anna Karenina
Who is who, as Literah maps it.
- Anna Arkadyevna Kareninamajor
- Alexey Kirillovitch Vronskymajor
- Alexey Alexandrovitch Kareninmajor
- Konstantin Dmitrievitch Levinmajor
- Ekaterina Alexandrovna Shtcherbatskaya / Kittymajor
- Darya Alexandrovna Oblonskaya / Dollymajor
- Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky / Stivamajor
- Sergei Alexeyitch Karenin / Seryozhasupporting
- Nikolai Dmitrievitch Levinsupporting
- Sergey Ivanovitch Koznyshevsupporting
- Princess Betsy Tverskayasupporting
- Countess Lydia Ivanovnasupporting
- Varenkasupporting
- Princess Shtcherbatskayasupporting
- Prince Shtcherbatskysupporting
- Countess Vronskayasupporting
The locations in Anna Karenina
Where it happens, as Literah maps it.
- Oblonsky househousehold
- Moscow railway stationrailway station
- Moscow ballballroom
- Shtcherbatsky homefamily house
- Karenin's Petersburg homeurban household
- Princess Betsy's drawing room / Petersburg fashionable societydrawing room
- Racecourseracecourse
- Theatertheater
- Levin's country estateestate
- Mowing fields / haying groundsfield
- German spaspa town
- Nikolai Levin's sickroomsickroom
- Vozdvizhenskoe / Anna and Vronsky's estateestate
- Church / wedding spacechurch
The core concepts in Anna Karenina
What the book keeps returning to, as Literah maps it.
- Every unhappy family is particular
- Society forgives charm more easily than truth
- Marriage is refuge and trap
- Love cannot make a world alone
- Motherhood is love under pressure
- Work tests whether life can be honest
- Seeing and being seen govern social life
- Faith is lived before it is understood
The objects of note in Anna Karenina
The things that carry meaning, as Literah maps it.
- Stiva's incriminating letter
- Anna's black ball dress
- Anna's fan
- Frou-Frou
- Opera-glass
- Theater box
- Seryozha's keepsakes
- Levin's scythe
- The chalk proposal table
- Wedding candles / icons
- Baby Dmitri's cradle and linens
- Letters and telegrams
- Railway carriage
- Karenin's official papers
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