All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Happy families are all alike; Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Anna karenin is a novel of Russian writer lev tolstoy and his masterpiece.

The work tells the story that Anna, a noble woman, pursues love and happiness, but encounters karenin's hypocrisy, Lenski's indifference and selfishness, and finally commits suicide on the railway track and stands dead. Levin, the owner of the manor, opposed the private ownership of land, resisted the capitalist system and sympathized with the poor peasants, but he could not get rid of the aristocratic habits and fell into an unavoidable contradiction.

Contradictory period, contradictory system, contradictory characters and contradictory psychology make the book bumpy in the whirlpool of contradictions. This novel is a portrayal of the tense and fearful Russian society in the transitional period between the old and the new.

Through two clues, Anna's pursuit of love tragedy and Levin's exploration of rural reform, the book depicts a vast and colorful picture of Russia from Moscow to other provinces and villages, and describes more than 150 characters successively, which is a social encyclopedia-style work.