Ambition, Bureaucracy, and Society

From Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Karenin's hollow officialdom and Vronsky's military-social ambitions critique the empty striving of Petersburg society.
Part 5, Chapter 24

Karenin under the spell of Countess Lydia Ivanovna and the spiritualist Landau, his career and personal life unraveling.

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Part 2, Chapter 5

Vronsky's mother's Petersburg circles and the social codes he obeys.

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