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Part 1, Chapter 1

The Oblonsky household is in chaos. Stiva Oblonsky's wife Dolly has discovered he had an affair with their children's French governess and refuses to speak to him.

Part 1, Chapter 2

Stiva goes through his morning routine and interacts with his household staff. He reads a liberal newspaper that matches his politics, though his politics are mostly a matter of h…

Part 1, Chapter 3

Levin arrives in Moscow. He has come specifically to propose to Kitty Shcherbatskaya, Dolly's younger sister, and he is nervous and hopeful.

Part 1, Chapter 4

Levin goes to visit the Shcherbatsky family and sees Kitty. The visit does not go as he hoped.

Part 1, Chapter 5

Levin has dinner with Stiva at a restaurant. The two men talk about love, marriage, and what they want from life.

Part 1, Chapter 6

Levin arrives at the Shcherbatsky house hoping to propose to Kitty. He's been in love with her for years and has convinced himself she feels the same.

Part 1, Chapter 7

Levin has dinner with his half-brother Koznyshev and their friend Oblonsky. The conversation ranges over farming, philosophy, and city versus country life.

Part 1, Chapter 8

Levin visits the skating rink and sees Kitty there. She's radiant and he's immediately undone.

Part 1, Chapter 9

This chapter follows Vronsky as he prepares to meet his mother at the train station. He's confident, well-liked, and completely at ease in the world Levin finds suffocating.

Part 1, Chapter 10

Anna arrives in Moscow and goes to stay with the Oblonskys. She immediately sets to work smoothing over the crisis in Dolly and Stiva's marriage.

Part 1, Chapter 11

Levin leaves Moscow after being rejected by Kitty. He boards a train and tries to make sense of what just happened.

Part 1, Chapter 12

Oblonsky runs into Levin before he leaves and the two have a brief, warm exchange. Oblonsky is breezy and affectionate as always, and Levin is honest with him about the rejection.

Part 1, Chapter 13

The chapter moves to Kitty and her state of mind after the evening of the ball. She is shaken.

Part 1, Chapter 14

Anna and Vronsky's connection deepens, though nothing explicit happens. They are both aware of each other in a way that goes beyond ordinary social interest.

Part 1, Chapter 15

Anna prepares to leave Moscow and return to Petersburg. Before she goes, the situation with Vronsky has become something she needs to leave behind.

Part 1, Chapter 16

Levin leaves Moscow after being rejected by Kitty. He boards a train back to his estate, feeling humiliated and certain that city life and romantic hope are both behind him.

Part 1, Chapter 17

Kitty is at a ball and becomes aware that Vronsky's attention has shifted away from her and toward Anna. This chapter is about the moment Kitty realizes she has been wrong about V…

Part 1, Chapter 18

Anna and Vronsky's connection deepens at the ball. Vronsky is openly drawn to Anna, and she is aware of his attention in a way she cannot easily dismiss.

Part 1, Chapter 19

Anna prepares to leave Moscow and return to Petersburg. Before she goes, the encounter with Vronsky at the train station the previous day lingers.

Part 1, Chapter 20

On the train back to Petersburg, Anna encounters Vronsky, who has followed her. A snowstorm outside mirrors the turbulence of what is building between them.

Part 1, Chapter 21

Levin leaves Moscow after being rejected by Kitty. He is hurt and embarrassed, and he tries to make sense of what happened by retreating into familiar routines.

Part 1, Chapter 22

Vronsky and Anna travel together on the train back from Moscow to Petersburg. A snowstorm traps the train, and during the stop Vronsky follows Anna onto the platform.

Part 1, Chapter 23

Anna arrives in Petersburg and is met by her husband Karenin. Seeing him after the train journey, she notices things about him she had not paid attention to before, particularly t…

Part 1, Chapter 24

Stiva visits Levin in the country. Levin is absorbed in estate work and farming, and the visit gives Tolstoy a chance to show how Levin lives when he is not in Moscow being humili…

Part 1, Chapter 25

Part 1 closes with Kitty falling ill. After turning down Levin and being passed over by Vronsky, who has clearly become interested in Anna, Kitty is in a bad state.

Part 1, Chapter 26

Levin leaves Moscow after being rejected by Kitty. He feels humiliated and heartbroken, but also strangely relieved to be returning to his estate and his work.

Part 1, Chapter 27

Kitty is left shaken after the ball. She had expected Vronsky to propose, but he did not, and she realizes she turned down Levin for a man who was never seriously interested in he…

Part 1, Chapter 28

Anna prepares to leave Moscow and return to Petersburg. She feels the pull of her ordinary life but also something new and unsettling that she cannot name.

Part 1, Chapter 29

On the train to Petersburg, Anna and Vronsky are traveling in proximity. Anna tries to read and distract herself but cannot.

Part 1, Chapter 30

The train arrives in Petersburg. Anna is met by her husband Karenin, and the contrast between him and Vronsky hits her immediately.

Part 1, Chapter 31

Anna prepares to leave Moscow and return to Petersburg. At the train station, a snowstorm is raging.

Part 1, Chapter 32

Anna arrives back in Petersburg and is met by her husband Karenin. Seeing him after the Moscow trip, she notices his ears in a way she never had before, and the observation fills…

Part 1, Chapter 33

Back in Petersburg society, Anna resumes her social life. Betsy Tverskaya, a fashionable and morally relaxed aristocrat, becomes a key figure in Anna's circle.

Part 1, Chapter 34

This chapter focuses on Karenin and his perception of Anna's changed behavior. He notices something is different but frames it in bureaucratic, rational terms rather than emotiona…

Part 2, Chapter 1

Part Two opens with Princess Shcherbatskaya ill and the family consulting doctors. This is partly a satirical passage in which Tolstoy mocks the medical profession's self-importan…

Part 2, Chapter 2

Anna returns to St. Petersburg after her time in Moscow, and the distance from Vronsky does nothing to quiet her feelings.

Part 2, Chapter 3

Vronsky settles back into his life in Petersburg and his social world, but Anna is now a fixed point in his thoughts.

Part 2, Chapter 4

Anna and Vronsky meet at a social gathering, and the tension between them is barely contained. They manage a private conversation, and Vronsky makes clear that his feelings haven'…

Part 2, Chapter 5

Karenin begins to notice that something is wrong, though he can't or won't name it directly. He observes Anna's changed behavior and feels a vague unease, but his response is to r…

Part 2, Chapter 6

The affair between Anna and Vronsky moves closer to becoming physical. Anna is increasingly unable to maintain the distance she has tried to keep, and Vronsky is patient but relen…

Part 2, Chapter 7

Levin returns to his estate after being rejected by Kitty and throws himself into farm work. He tries to find meaning in managing his land and the lives of his peasants, but the r…

Part 2, Chapter 8

Anna and Vronsky's relationship intensifies after the horse race disaster. Vronsky is consumed by his passion for Anna, and Anna is increasingly unable to hide her feelings from K…

Part 2, Chapter 9

Karenin decides to speak to Anna about her behavior in society. He raises the issue carefully and coldly, focusing on appearances rather than feelings.

Part 2, Chapter 10

Vronsky and Anna meet privately and the affair becomes physical. This is the consummation scene, handled by Tolstoy with Anna experiencing it as something close to shame and horro…

Part 2, Chapter 11

In the aftermath of the consummation, Anna and Vronsky are both processing what happened but separately and differently.

Part 2, Chapter 12

Vronsky visits Anna at the Karenins' home under the pretense of a social call. The visit is tense because both of them know the real reason he is there, and Karenin is present for…

Part 2, Chapter 13

Anna and Vronsky find a moment alone and the tension between them breaks into open declaration. Vronsky presses Anna to acknowledge what is happening between them, and she can no…

Part 2, Chapter 14

Karenin notices that something is wrong with Anna's behavior and begins to pay closer attention. He is not an emotional man, and his response to suspicion is analytical rather tha…

Part 2, Chapter 15

Karenin speaks to Anna about her behavior, specifically about how much time she is spending with Vronsky and how it looks to others.

Part 2, Chapter 16

The affair between Anna and Vronsky becomes physical. This is the chapter where the relationship is consummated, and Tolstoy treats it as a catastrophe for Anna even as it is what…

Part 2, Chapter 17

Levin returns to his estate after being rejected by Kitty and throws himself into farm work as a way to stop thinking about his failure.

Part 2, Chapter 18

Anna and Vronsky's affair becomes harder to conceal. Vronsky is fully consumed by his feelings for Anna, and Anna is caught between her growing attachment to him and her awareness…

Part 2, Chapter 19

Karenin becomes aware that something is wrong. He notices the changed dynamic between Anna and Vronsky and confronts Anna about her behavior in public.

Part 2, Chapter 20

The affair between Anna and Vronsky is consummated. This is the turning point the novel has been building toward.

Part 2, Chapter 21

In the aftermath of the consummation, Anna and Vronsky are both changed but in different directions. Anna pulls inward, struggling with guilt and a new sense of her own position.

Part 2, Chapter 22

Levin returns to his estate after being rejected by Kitty and throws himself into farm work. He tries to find meaning in the physical labor and the rhythms of rural life, but the…

Part 2, Chapter 23

Anna and Vronsky's affair deepens. Vronsky is now fully committed to Anna, having given up other pursuits to be near her.

Part 2, Chapter 24

Karenin begins to notice that something is wrong. He has been deliberately not looking, but the signs are now too obvious to ignore.

Part 2, Chapter 25

Karenin speaks to Anna about her conduct. The conversation is stiff and formal on his side, and Anna responds with a kind of cold defiance.

Part 2, Chapter 26

The chapter shifts back toward the social world and the ripple effects of Anna's situation. Vronsky's position in his regiment and among his peers is touched on, and the cost of t…

Part 2, Chapter 27

Levin returns to his estate after being rejected by Kitty and throws himself into farm work as a way to cope. He finds meaning in physical labor alongside the peasants, but the sa…

Part 2, Chapter 28

Anna and Vronsky's affair has become an open secret in Petersburg society. Anna feels the weight of her position but has not yet broken with Karenin.

Part 2, Chapter 29

Karenin becomes more aware that something is wrong in his marriage, though he resists naming it directly. He is a man who processes everything through propriety and procedure, and…

Part 2, Chapter 30

Karenin confronts Anna about her behavior with Vronsky. The conversation is cold and formal on his side.

Part 2, Chapter 31

After the confrontation with Karenin, Anna goes to see Vronsky. The meeting is intense.

Part 2, Chapter 32

Anna and Vronsky are now openly together, but the aftermath of their affair is complicated. Anna is recovering from childbirth and is emotionally raw.

Part 2, Chapter 33

Karenin is processing the situation and deciding how to respond to Anna's affair and her new child. He is a man who operates through rules and appearances, so the scandal is as mu…

Part 2, Chapter 34

Anna is near death after a very difficult childbirth, and the crisis forces all three people in the triangle into the same space emotionally.

Part 2, Chapter 35

Anna recovers from her illness, and the brief window of honesty and forgiveness closes. Karenin's magnanimity fades as the social reality reasserts itself.

Part 3, Chapter 1

Part 3 opens with a shift to Levin and the countryside. After his rejection by Kitty, Levin has thrown himself into managing his estate and thinking about agriculture and the peas…

Part 3, Chapter 2

Levin throws himself into farm work on his estate, trying to find meaning through physical labor alongside his peasants.

Part 3, Chapter 3

Levin's brother Sergei Koznyshev visits the estate, and the two brothers have very different relationships to the countryside.

Part 3, Chapter 4

Levin continues working his estate and thinking about how to reorganize it so that the peasants have a real stake in the land's productivity.

Part 3, Chapter 5

The narrative shifts back to Anna and Vronsky. They are living together in the country, but the arrangement is already showing strain.

Part 3, Chapter 6

Vronsky visits a local election or social gathering, and Anna is left alone. Her time alone sharpens her anxiety.

Part 3, Chapter 7

Levin throws himself into the mowing work alongside his peasants, and something shifts in him. The physical labor stops feeling like effort and starts feeling like rhythm.

Part 3, Chapter 8

The mowing continues into a second day, and Levin's pleasure in it deepens. He eats with the peasants, rests when they rest, and starts to feel that this life is more honest than…

Part 3, Chapter 9

Levin returns home after the mowing days and finds his brother Sergei Ivanovich visiting. The contrast is immediate: Sergei is intellectual, urban, and comfortable with abstractio…

Part 3, Chapter 10

Dolly arrives at Levin's estate with her children for a summer visit, and the house fills up in a way it hasn't before.

Part 3, Chapter 11

Dolly and Levin talk more openly, and she brings up Kitty directly. She tells him that Kitty is back from abroad, that she has recovered from her illness, and that she is changed.

Part 3, Chapter 12

Levin throws himself into the mowing work alongside his peasants. He starts the day struggling to keep pace, but as the morning goes on, something shifts and the labor becomes alm…

Part 3, Chapter 13

The mowing continues into the afternoon and evening. Levin eats with the peasants, rests in the grass, and feels a closeness with them he has never managed in polite society.

Part 3, Chapter 14

Levin returns home from the fields and finds a letter from Kitty's family. She is recovering from her illness abroad and will be back in Russia.

Part 3, Chapter 15

Oblonsky arrives at Levin's estate for a visit and the two go hunting together. The mood is warm and easy between old friends, but Oblonsky casually mentions that Kitty is back an…

Part 3, Chapter 16

Levin goes to visit Dolly at the Shcherbatsky estate, telling himself it is just a friendly call. He finds her overwhelmed, managing the children and the house with little help an…

Part 3, Chapter 17

Levin throws himself into the mowing work alongside his peasants, finding a kind of peace he hasn't felt in years. The physical labor quiets his mind in a way that intellectual li…

Part 3, Chapter 18

The mowing continues and Levin's absorption in the work deepens. He begins to see the peasants not as an economic category but as individual people with their own rhythms and wisd…

Part 3, Chapter 19

Levin returns home from the mowing and encounters Dolly, who has come to stay at a nearby estate with her children. Their conversation pulls Levin back into the social world he ha…

Part 3, Chapter 20

Levin visits Dolly and they talk more openly about life, marriage, and what people actually want versus what they settle for.

Part 3, Chapter 21

Levin leaves Dolly's and rides home, turning over everything they discussed. He thinks about Kitty again with renewed intensity and begins to feel that his earlier decision to giv…

Part 3, Chapter 22

Levin throws himself into the mowing work alongside his peasants, finding a kind of physical and mental relief he hasn't felt in years.

Part 3, Chapter 23

Levin continues working in the fields and his sense of contentment deepens. He begins to think more seriously about what kind of life he actually wants, and the contrast between h…

Part 3, Chapter 24

The narrative shifts back to Anna and Vronsky. Their affair is now an established fact in their private lives, but the social consequences are starting to press in.

Part 3, Chapter 25

Levin receives a visit from his half-brother Koznyshev and a friend, Katavasov. The contrast between Levin's current contentment and his visitors' urban intellectual energy is imm…

Part 3, Chapter 26

The visit continues, and the group goes out to watch the mowing together. Koznyshev and Katavasov observe the peasants with the detached curiosity of intellectuals studying a soci…

Part 3, Chapter 27

Levin watches the mowing with his peasants and finds unexpected satisfaction in the physical labor. The rhythm of the work takes over, and for stretches he stops thinking entirely.

Part 3, Chapter 28

Levin's contentment from the mowing fades when he returns to the house and his usual worries. Dolly arrives at Pokrovskoye with her children for the summer, and the domestic chaos…

Part 3, Chapter 29

Dolly and Levin have a longer, more honest conversation about marriage and happiness. Dolly defends the institution even though her own marriage to Oblonsky is a disaster.

Part 3, Chapter 30

Kitty is abroad at a German spa, trying to recover from her illness. She meets a pious Russian woman named Varenka and a sickly man named Petrov who is devoted to her.

Part 3, Chapter 31

Kitty's attempt to live like Varenka runs into trouble. Petrov's wife grows suspicious of Kitty's attention to her husband, and Kitty realizes her motives weren't as pure as she t…

Part 3, Chapter 32

Levin returns to his estate after his failed proposal to Kitty and throws himself into farm work. He tries to find meaning in labor and the peasant life, but the emptiness he feel…

Part 4, Chapter 1

Oblonsky and Karenin meet to discuss the state of the Karenin marriage. Karenin has decided on a formal separation and wants to proceed legally.

Part 4, Chapter 2

Anna is ill after giving birth to Vronsky's daughter. Believing she may be dying, she sends for Karenin, and when he arrives, something unexpected happens: he forgives her.

Part 4, Chapter 3

Anna recovers, and the emotional openness of the sickroom quickly fades. Karenin's forgiveness doesn't translate into a new arrangement.

Part 4, Chapter 4

Oblonsky visits Karenin again and pushes him toward granting Anna a divorce. Karenin, who had experienced genuine forgiveness, is now retreating back into formality and wounded pr…

Part 4, Chapter 5

Karenin is in a strange, suspended state after Anna's near-death from childbed fever. He had forgiven Anna and Vronsky at her bedside, and that act of forgiveness left him feeling…

Part 4, Chapter 6

Stiva Oblonsky visits Karenin to discuss what should happen now. He pushes Karenin toward granting Anna a divorce.

Part 4, Chapter 7

Anna is recovering at home and Karenin is living in the same house, but the two of them can barely be in the same room.

Part 4, Chapter 8

Vronsky, back in Petersburg after his time away, attempts suicide. He shoots himself but survives, the wound serious but not fatal.

Part 4, Chapter 9

Anna and Vronsky leave Russia together. Karenin has not granted a divorce, so they go abroad without one.

Part 4, Chapter 10

Karenin meets with a lawyer to explore the possibility of divorce. The lawyer is careful and indirect, but the conversation makes clear that divorce in Russia is a humiliating, co…

Part 4, Chapter 11

Anna is gravely ill after giving birth to Vronsky's daughter. Believing she is dying, she sends for Karenin and, in a feverish, emotional state, begs his forgiveness.

Part 4, Chapter 12

Anna recovers from her illness. The crisis has passed, but the situation is now stranger and more uncomfortable than before.

Part 4, Chapter 13

Oblonsky visits Karenin to discuss Anna's situation and push for a divorce. Karenin, who had been moving toward a more forgiving and even spiritual state, is now being pressured f…

Part 4, Chapter 14

Anna and Vronsky leave Russia together for abroad. Karenin has not granted a divorce, so Anna leaves without legal freedom.

Part 4, Chapter 15

Karenin, still reeling from Anna's near-death experience after childbirth, finds himself in an unexpected position of moral superiority.

Part 4, Chapter 16

The aftermath of the crisis settles into an uncomfortable new normal. Karenin is praised in society for his Christian behavior, but the praise feels hollow to him.

Part 4, Chapter 17

Vronsky, having survived his suicide attempt, begins to recover physically and mentally. He decides to leave Russia with Anna.

Part 4, Chapter 18

The Levin and Kitty storyline returns. Levin, still living on his estate and working through questions about meaning and labor, hears that Kitty is back from abroad and has recove…

Part 4, Chapter 19

Levin visits the Shcherbatsky household and sees Kitty again for the first time since her rejection of him. The meeting is awkward and charged.

Part 4, Chapter 20

Karenin, left alone after Anna's near-death experience and apparent reconciliation, finds himself in a strange new position.

Part 4, Chapter 21

Anna has recovered and the false peace of the sickroom is gone. She and Karenin are now living in the same house with no pretense of normal marriage, and she is consumed by her de…

Part 4, Chapter 22

Anna and Vronsky leave St. Petersburg together.

Part 4, Chapter 23

This chapter closes out Part 4 by returning briefly to the aftermath in Petersburg. Karenin is now firmly under Lydia Ivanovna's influence and has settled into a posture of injure…

Part 5, Chapter 1

Part 5 opens with Levin and Kitty's wedding. After all the delays and misunderstandings, they finally marry, and the chapter gives the ceremony real weight.

Part 5, Chapter 2

Levin and Kitty arrive in Moscow for their wedding. Levin is nervous and out of his element in the city, while Kitty's family bustles around with preparations.

Part 5, Chapter 3

Levin has a crisis of doubt just before the wedding. He loses his shirt and is nearly late, and more seriously, he questions whether he truly wants to go through with the marriage.

Part 5, Chapter 4

The wedding ceremony itself takes place. Tolstoy describes the religious ritual in detail, and Levin moves through it in a state of emotional overwhelm.

Part 5, Chapter 5

Anna and Vronsky are now living abroad, in Italy. They have settled into a life of leisure and travel, but something is already off.

Part 5, Chapter 6

Still in Italy, Vronsky and Anna encounter Golenishchev, an old acquaintance. The three spend time together, and Golenishchev talks at length about art and ideas.

Part 5, Chapter 7

Levin and Kitty settle into married life, and Levin finds the reality of it more complicated than he imagined. The small frictions of daily domestic existence catch him off guard.

Part 5, Chapter 8

Anna and Vronsky are living abroad, and the chapter gives a clear picture of how their life together actually looks day to day.

Part 5, Chapter 9

A Russian artist named Mikhailov is introduced. Vronsky visits his studio, and the encounter becomes a quiet study in the difference between real artistic talent and fashionable d…

Part 5, Chapter 10

The focus returns to Karenin in Petersburg. He is in a difficult position socially and emotionally after Anna's departure.

Part 5, Chapter 11

Anna secretly returns to Petersburg to see Seryozha on his birthday. She slips into the house early in the morning before Karenin is awake.

Part 5, Chapter 12

Anna and Vronsky have settled into their life in Rome, but something is off. Anna feels a growing unease she cannot name.

Part 5, Chapter 13

Vronsky's painting hobby gets a test when a professional artist named Mikhailov visits and evaluates his work. The encounter is humbling.

Part 5, Chapter 14

The chapter shifts to Levin and Kitty, who are now married and adjusting to life together on Levin's estate. The honeymoon glow has faded and the ordinary friction of shared life…

Part 5, Chapter 15

Levin's half-brother Nikolai is dying, and Levin and Kitty travel to be with him. The deathbed scene is one of the most direct confrontations with mortality in the novel.

Part 5, Chapter 16

Nikolai dies. The chapter handles the death quietly, without melodrama.

Part 5, Chapter 17

Levin and Kitty settle into married life, and Levin discovers that the reality of marriage is messier and more demanding than he imagined.

Part 5, Chapter 18

Anna and Vronsky are living abroad, and on the surface their life looks enviable. They have money, freedom, and each other.

Part 5, Chapter 19

A Russian painter named Mikhailov is living in Rome, and Vronsky and Anna visit his studio. Mikhailov is a genuine artist, and the contrast with Vronsky's amateur efforts is uncom…

Part 5, Chapter 20

Levin's brother Nikolai is dying, and Levin and Kitty travel to be with him. Kitty takes charge of the nursing in a way that surprises Levin.

Part 5, Chapter 21

Nikolai dies. Levin is left with grief and with the same unanswerable questions about death that have followed him through the novel.

Part 5, Chapter 22

Anna and Vronsky are back in Russia and settling into a life together, but the social world refuses to accept Anna. She tries to visit her son Seryozha and is turned away by Karen…

Part 5, Chapter 23

After leaving Seryozha, Anna is shaken and raw. She and Vronsky attend the theater that evening, partly to assert their presence in society.

Part 5, Chapter 24

Levin and Kitty are now married and adjusting to life together. This chapter focuses on the small frictions of early marriage.

Part 5, Chapter 25

Levin visits his dying brother Nikolai. The visit is hard.

Part 5, Chapter 26

Nikolai dies. Levin and Kitty are present.

Part 5, Chapter 27

Anna and Vronsky have settled into their life in Italy, but something is off. Anna feels the hollowness of their situation more sharply now that they are away from Russia.

Part 5, Chapter 28

The Russian artist Mikhailov receives Anna and Vronsky in his studio. He shows them his paintings, and the visit becomes a study in contrast between real artistic talent and Vrons…

Part 5, Chapter 29

Levin and Kitty are now married and have moved to the country. The chapter follows their early domestic life, which is warmer than Anna and Vronsky's Italian idyll but also full o…

Part 5, Chapter 30

Levin's half-brother Nikolai is dying, and Levin and Kitty travel to be with him. Nikolai's condition is grim.

Part 5, Chapter 31

Nikolai dies. Levin and Kitty are present.

Part 5, Chapter 32

Anna and Vronsky's life in Italy is starting to show cracks. Anna is restless and dissatisfied despite the comfort and freedom they have.

Part 6, Chapter 1

The action shifts to Levin and Kitty, now settled into married life at Levin's country estate. The chapter opens the novel's sixth part by contrasting the Levin household with the…

Part 6, Chapter 2

Dolly settles in at Levin's estate and the women talk openly about their lives. The chapter focuses on the gap between Dolly's exhausted reality and Kitty's hopeful new start.

Part 6, Chapter 3

Dolly decides to visit Anna, who is living with Vronsky at his nearby estate. This is a significant decision.

Part 6, Chapter 4

Dolly arrives at Vronsky's estate and sees Anna's life up close. Anna looks beautiful and seems at ease, but Dolly notices things that trouble her.

Part 6, Chapter 5

Levin is at his estate, increasingly absorbed in farming and philosophical questions about the meaning of his work. He watches the peasants labor and feels a growing gap between h…

Part 6, Chapter 6

Dolly arrives at Levin and Kitty's estate for a visit. The contrast between her worn, difficult life as a mother of many children and the relative freshness of Kitty's household i…

Part 6, Chapter 7

Dolly and Kitty spend time together, and conversation turns to Anna. Dolly defends Anna more than Kitty does, partly because Dolly has more experience with a bad marriage and can…

Part 6, Chapter 8

Dolly decides to visit Anna at the estate where she and Vronsky are living. The journey itself is described in some detail, and Dolly arrives to find a household that looks prospe…

Part 6, Chapter 9

Dolly and Anna talk more openly during the visit. Anna reveals her anxieties about her position, including her fear of losing Vronsky and her complicated feelings about the child…

Part 6, Chapter 10

Levin continues to feel out of place among the aristocratic guests at Vronsky's estate, while Anna tries to draw him into conversation and charm him.

Part 6, Chapter 11

Levin leaves Vronsky's estate in a complicated state. He's charmed by Anna but also troubled by it.

Part 6, Chapter 12

Anna is increasingly consumed by jealousy over Vronsky. She suspects him of interest in other women and can't stop herself from watching his every move.

Part 6, Chapter 13

Vronsky prepares to leave for an election or local affairs, and Anna's dread at being left alone intensifies. She tries to hold him back without openly saying so.

Part 6, Chapter 14

Anna and Vronsky have an argument that neither fully resolves. Anna's jealousy and fear push her to say things she regrets, and Vronsky responds with a coldness that frightens her.

Part 6, Chapter 15

Levin is restless and dissatisfied at the estate, watching the peasants work and feeling cut off from the simple, purposeful life they seem to have.

Part 6, Chapter 16

Levin joins the peasants in mowing the fields and finds, to his surprise, that physical labor brings him a kind of peace he has not felt before.

Part 6, Chapter 17

Kitty and the children arrive at the estate, and Levin's mood shifts. Domestic life reasserts itself.

Part 6, Chapter 18

Dolly visits the Levins at their country estate. She has traveled from her own difficult household, and the contrast between the two homes is immediate.

Part 6, Chapter 19

Dolly, still visiting, begins to think about Anna. She has not seen Anna in a long time, and Anna's estate is not far away.

Part 6, Chapter 20

Levin is at home on the estate, restless and dissatisfied with himself. He watches the peasants working and feels a growing sense that his own life lacks the simple purposefulness…

Part 6, Chapter 21

Anna and Vronsky are living together at his estate, and the chapter shows the cracks in their domestic arrangement. Anna is increasingly anxious about her position and about Vrons…

Part 6, Chapter 22

Dolly visits Anna and Vronsky at their estate. The visit gives Tolstoy a way to show Anna's life from an outside perspective.

Part 6, Chapter 23

The visit continues, and Anna and Dolly talk more openly. Anna says things about her situation that she probably hasn't said aloud before.

Part 6, Chapter 24

Dolly's visit ends and she returns home. On the journey back she thinks over everything she saw and heard at the estate.

Part 6, Chapter 25

Levin is out hunting with Oblonsky and a visiting landowner named Vasenka Veslovsky, and the dynamic between them is already strained.

Part 6, Chapter 26

Levin's jealousy reaches a breaking point. He asks Veslovsky to leave, which is a socially mortifying thing to do to a guest.

Part 6, Chapter 27

After Veslovsky leaves, Levin and Kitty work through the aftermath. Kitty is still annoyed, and Levin feels both justified and ashamed at the same time.

Part 6, Chapter 28

Levin goes back out to the fields and immerses himself in the harvest work alongside the peasants. Physical labor calms him in a way that conversation with Kitty could not.

Part 6, Chapter 29

Anna and Vronsky are at their estate, and the chapter gives a clear-eyed look at how their life together has settled into something that is comfortable on the surface but quietly…

Part 6, Chapter 30

Levin and Kitty are settled at Pokrovskoye when Varenka and Sergei Koznyshev take a walk together that everyone expects will end in a marriage proposal.

Part 6, Chapter 31

Levin spends time with the peasants during the harvest and feels a pull toward their way of life that he can't quite explain or dismiss.

Part 6, Chapter 32

The summer at Pokrovskoye winds down. Kitty is visibly pregnant and Levin is attentive to her in a way that mixes genuine love with anxiety.

Part 7, Chapter 1

Part 7 opens in Moscow. Anna and Vronsky are back in the city, and the social situation has hardened against them.

Part 7, Chapter 2

Levin arrives in Moscow for Kitty's confinement and immediately feels out of place in the city. He has business to attend to but finds Moscow's pace and social world grating.

Part 7, Chapter 3

Anna and Vronsky's relationship has settled into a tense, suffocating routine. Anna is increasingly consumed by jealousy and suspicion, reading hostility into Vronsky's every abse…

Part 7, Chapter 4

Vronsky returns and Anna confronts him, but the confrontation goes badly. She accuses him of indifference and he responds with cold patience, which she reads as contempt.

Part 7, Chapter 5

Anna's mental state worsens. She begins to see her situation with a kind of terrible clarity: she has no legal standing, no social position, and no security.

Part 7, Chapter 6

Anna goes out into Moscow society, or attempts to. She attends a gathering where she is made to feel her exclusion without anyone saying so directly.

Part 7, Chapter 7

Anna and Vronsky have another difficult exchange. She is increasingly convinced he is interested in another woman, and she says so.

Part 7, Chapter 8

Anna's jealousy over Vronsky has reached a breaking point. She convinces herself that he no longer loves her and is pursuing other women, particularly Sorokina.

Part 7, Chapter 9

Anna sends Vronsky a note and waits for his reply, but the waiting only feeds her anxiety. When she does not get the response she needs, she decides to go out, partly to escape he…

Part 7, Chapter 10

Anna visits Dolly and then Kitty, but neither visit gives her what she is looking for. She watches the domestic happiness around her and feels more alien to it than ever.

Part 7, Chapter 11

Anna returns home and the confrontation with Vronsky goes badly. He is cold, she is accusatory, and neither of them can find a way back to the warmth they once had.

Part 7, Chapter 12

Anna goes to the train station, and the chapter follows her thoughts as she rides there and waits on the platform. Her thinking becomes increasingly detached from ordinary logic.

Part 7, Chapter 13

Anna's mental state continues to deteriorate. She fixates on Vronsky's supposed indifference and convinces herself he is falling for another woman.

Part 7, Chapter 14

Anna sends Vronsky a note and then waits, which only makes things worse. The waiting becomes its own torment.

Part 7, Chapter 15

Anna's thoughts turn darker and more erratic. She begins to see her situation as completely without exit.

Part 7, Chapter 16

Anna decides to go to Vronsky. She gets into a carriage and travels toward him, but the journey becomes a kind of internal monologue about everything she finds unbearable.

Part 7, Chapter 17

Anna throws herself under a train. The chapter is brief and deliberately disorienting.

Part 7, Chapter 18

Anna's mental state continues to deteriorate. She is consumed by jealousy and suspicion about Vronsky, convinced he is pursuing other women, particularly Sorokina.

Part 7, Chapter 19

Anna writes a note to Vronsky and then waits. She thinks about going to see Dolly or the Princess Shcherbatskaya but talks herself out of it, certain she would be unwelcome or pit…

Part 7, Chapter 20

Vronsky returns and he and Anna have another painful conversation. She accuses him, he defends himself, and neither reaches the other.

Part 7, Chapter 21

Anna goes out alone by carriage, moving through Moscow while her thoughts race. She observes people on the street and finds everything around her ugly, false, and hostile.

Part 7, Chapter 22

Anna arrives at the station and waits on the platform. Her thoughts continue to spiral.

Part 7, Chapter 23

Anna's mental state continues to deteriorate. She is consumed by jealousy and suspicion about Vronsky, convinced he is losing interest in her and pursuing other women.

Part 7, Chapter 24

Anna goes to see Vronsky and the encounter does not go the way she hoped. The conversation is strained.

Part 7, Chapter 25

Anna's thoughts grow darker and more fragmented. She moves through the city and her mind races, jumping between memories, grievances, and a growing sense that there is no path for…

Part 7, Chapter 26

Anna arrives at the railway station. Her thoughts continue their dark, circular pattern.

Part 7, Chapter 27

Anna steps in front of the train and dies. The chapter is brief and does not dramatize the moment in graphic detail.

Part 7, Chapter 28

Anna's mental state continues to deteriorate. She is consumed by jealousy over Vronsky and convinced that he has stopped loving her.

Part 7, Chapter 29

Anna writes a note to Vronsky and then goes out, unable to stay still. She rides through Moscow in a carriage, watching ordinary people go about their lives, and everything she se…

Part 7, Chapter 30

Vronsky's reply arrives and it is not what Anna needed. She goes to the train station, ostensibly to meet someone, but her thoughts are now fully unmoored.

Part 7, Chapter 31

The aftermath of Anna's death is shown through Vronsky. He is told what happened and the news destroys him.

Part 8, Chapter 1

The novel shifts to Part 8, which is essentially an epilogue. The focus moves away from Anna entirely and toward Levin and the broader social world.

Part 8, Chapter 2

Koznyshev's book on the Eastern Question has just been published after years of work, but the public ignores it completely.

Part 8, Chapter 3

Levin watches the volunteer movement from a skeptical distance. He cannot understand why Russians are so worked up about Slavic suffering when there is plenty of suffering at home.

Part 8, Chapter 4

Vronsky is preparing to leave Russia with a detachment of volunteers. He has been devastated since Anna's death and has no interest in surviving the war.

Part 8, Chapter 5

Levin is at Pokrovskoye with Kitty and their son. He has been wrestling for months with questions about the meaning of life and has come close to despair, even hiding ropes so he…

Part 8, Chapter 6

Levin continues to sit with his new feeling, testing it against his old doubts. He notices that the peace he felt after Fyodor's words does not disappear when he thinks hard about…

Part 8, Chapter 7

Levin continues to wrestle with the question of how to live a good life. He has been reading philosophy and theology, trying to find a rational basis for the moral sense he feels…

Part 8, Chapter 8

Levin's inner transformation deepens. He tests his new understanding against his old doubts and finds that the doubts have not disappeared, but they no longer have the same power…

Part 8, Chapter 9

Levin is outside on his estate when a storm approaches. His son Mitya is out with Kitty, and Levin suddenly panics that they are in danger.

Part 8, Chapter 10

Anna's story ends in Part 7, but Tolstoy now closes the novel by returning fully to Levin. This chapter shows Levin at home in the evening, still turning over his new understandin…

Part 8, Chapter 11

The novel closes with Levin under the night sky, thinking about his life and the lives of the people around him. He knows that others will not see the change in him.

Part 8, Chapter 12

Levin continues wrestling with the spiritual crisis that has consumed him. He reads philosophy and theology but finds no satisfying answers in books alone.

Part 8, Chapter 13

Levin's internal search sharpens when he has a conversation with a peasant named Fyodor, who describes a neighbor as a man who lives for his soul rather than for his belly.

Part 8, Chapter 14

Levin walks home after the conversation with Fyodor and experiences something close to a religious awakening. He looks at the sky, thinks about the peasant's words, and feels for…

Part 8, Chapter 15

Levin returns home to Kitty and their son. He tries to explain what has happened to him but finds he cannot put it into words that satisfy either of them.

Part 8, Chapter 16

The novel closes on Levin. He acknowledges that he will keep making mistakes, losing his temper, and falling short.

Part 8, Chapter 17

Levin's spiritual crisis deepens as he wrestles with the gap between his new faith and his old habits of anger and selfishness.

Part 8, Chapter 18

Levin continues thinking through his new understanding of life and God. He is not trying to build a theology.

Part 8, Chapter 19

The novel ends with Levin at home, watching a thunderstorm pass over the fields while his family is outside. He feels a moment of fear for Kitty and the baby, then relief when the…