Plot points from Part One of Anna Karenina dealing with the way families are portrayed and understood at the beginning of the novel.

Short biographies about Anna Karenina experts Liza Knapp, Andrew Kaufman, Amy Mandelker, Anne Hruska and Judith Armstrong

Read past issues of Oprah's Book Club Newsletters about reading Leo Tolstoy's classic novel 'Anna Karenina.'

Thoughts on characters in Leo Tolstoy's novel, Anna Karenina. From Stiva and Dolly's silent understanding, Kitty and Levin's new marriage, Anna's affair with Vronsky and pending divorce, get new insight into this classic Russian novel of family life.

Thoughts on how Levin and Anna are related in the novel, and how they plots connect and provide a richness to Tolstoy's family novel.