THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (1)

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Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here. The 2024 and 2025 archives are here. This episode, of which the first 10 minutes are free, is the first in a three-part sequence on Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. We discuss the novel’s style, symbols, and motifs; its portraits of nature and labor, sex and death, aristocracy and peasantry, ideology and life, virtue and religion, and more. Please like, share, comment, and subscribe! The slideshow corresponding to the episode can be downloaded behind the paywall: