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Anna Karenina;Leo Tolstoy;Anna Arkadyevna Karenina: Stepan Oblonskys sister, Karenins wife and Vronskys lover. Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky: Lover of Anna, a cavalry officer Prince Stepan Stiva Arkadyevich: a civil servant and Annas brother, a man about town Princess Darya Dolly Alexandrovna Oblonskaya: Stepans wife;Anna Karenina is the tragedy of married aristocrat and socialite Anna Karenina and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The story starts when she arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brothers unbridled womanizing—something that prefigures her own later situation, though with less tolerance for her by others.;A bachelor, Vronsky is willing to marry her if she would agree to leave her husband Karenin, a government official, but she is vulnerable to the pressures of Russian social norms, her own insecurities and Karenins indecision. Although Vronsky and Anna go to Italy where they can be together, they have trouble making friends. Back in Russia, she is shunned, becoming further isolated and anxious, while Vronsky pursues his social life. Despite Vronskys reassurances she grows increasingly possessive and paranoid about his imagined infidelity, fearing loss of control. ;A parallel story within the novel is that of Konstantin Levin, a country landowner who desires to marry Kitty, sister to Dolly and sister-in-law to Annas brother Oblonsky. Konstantin has to propose twice before Kitty accepts. The novel details Konstantins difficulties managing his estate, his eventual marriage, and personal issues, until the birth of his first child. ;The novel is narrated from a third-person-omniscient perspective, shifting the narrators attention to several major characters. Also of significance is Tolstoys use of real events in his narrative, to lend greater verisimilitude to the fictional events of his narrative.;Anna Karenina is commonly thought to explore the themes of hypocrisy, jealousy, faith, fidelity, family, marriage, society, progress,