BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
LEO NIKOLAEVITCH TOLSTOY, the greatest of . Russian novelists and most influential of Russian * thinkers, was born on his ancestral estate of Yasnaya Polyana, near Toula, a hundred miles due south of Moscow, on September 9, 1828. His father, Count Nicholas Tolstoy, died when Leo was less than ten; his mother, six years earlier.
After the death of his parents, he was taken care of by his aunts; and at fifteen he entered the University of Kazan. Though he took part in the social pleasures of the town, Tolstoy's years at the university were neither satisfactory nor very profitable, and before he was nineteen he gave up his studies and returned to the family estates.
He had been reading Rousseau and he attempted to put some of that philosopher's theories into practice, seeking to live according to Nature and to ameliorate the condition of the peasantry. But the difficulties were too great for his inexperience, and he went to St. Petersburg and tried the study of law,
Table of Contents
ANNA KARENIN; PAGE; Biographical Note v; Criticisms and Interpretations:; I By Emile Melciiior, Vicomte de Vogue ix; II By Charles Edward Turner x; III By Matthew Arnold xii; IV By Leo Wiener xiii; V By William Dean Howells xiv; VI By Edward Garnett xvii; VII From "The Nation" xix; VIII By Maurice Baring xx; List of Characters xxiii; PART I; Chapter I i; Chapter II 4; Chapter III 8; Chapter IV 13; Chapter V 19; Chapter VI 28; Chapter VII 31; Chapter VIII 34; Chapter IX 37; Chapter X 44; Chapter XI 52; Chapter XII 57; Chapter XIII 62; Chapter XIV 65; Chapter XV 72; Chapter XVI 75; Chapter XVII 77; Chapter XVIII 81; Chapter XIX 87; Chapter XX 94; Chapter XXI 98; i; PART I-Continued; PACE; Chapter XXII 101; Chapter XXIII 106; Chapter XXIV m; Chapter XXV 116; Chapter XXVI 122; Chapter XXVII 126; Chapter XXVIII 129; Chapter XXIX 132; Chapter XXX 136; Chapter XXXI 139; Chapter XXXII 143; Chapte
LEO NIKOLAEVITCH TOLSTOY, the greatest of . Russian novelists and most influential of Russian * thinkers, was born on his ancestral estate of Yasnaya Polyana, near Toula, a hundred miles due south of Moscow, on September 9, 1828. His father, Count Nicholas Tolstoy, died when Leo was less than ten; his mother, six years earlier.
After the death of his parents, he was taken care of by his aunts; and at fifteen he entered the University of Kazan. Though he took part in the social pleasures of the town, Tolstoy's years at the university were neither satisfactory nor very profitable, and before he was nineteen he gave up his studies and returned to the family estates.
He had been reading Rousseau and he attempted to put some of that philosopher's theories into practice, seeking to live according to Nature and to ameliorate the condition of the peasantry. But the difficulties were too great for his inexperience, and he went to St. Petersburg and tried the study of law,
Table of Contents
ANNA KARENIN; PAGE; Biographical Note v; Criticisms and Interpretations:; I By Emile Melciiior, Vicomte de Vogue ix; II By Charles Edward Turner x; III By Matthew Arnold xii; IV By Leo Wiener xiii; V By William Dean Howells xiv; VI By Edward Garnett xvii; VII From "The Nation" xix; VIII By Maurice Baring xx; List of Characters xxiii; PART I; Chapter I i; Chapter II 4; Chapter III 8; Chapter IV 13; Chapter V 19; Chapter VI 28; Chapter VII 31; Chapter VIII 34; Chapter IX 37; Chapter X 44; Chapter XI 52; Chapter XII 57; Chapter XIII 62; Chapter XIV 65; Chapter XV 72; Chapter XVI 75; Chapter XVII 77; Chapter XVIII 81; Chapter XIX 87; Chapter XX 94; Chapter XXI 98; i; PART I-Continued; PACE; Chapter XXII 101; Chapter XXIII 106; Chapter XXIV m; Chapter XXV 116; Chapter XXVI 122; Chapter XXVII 126; Chapter XXVIII 129; Chapter XXIX 132; Chapter XXX 136; Chapter XXXI 139; Chapter XXXII 143; Chapte
