"Anna Karenina" kokkuvõte
Chapters 12-17
It's been many months since Levin's encounter with Kitty, but Levin hasn't gotten her out of his head.
Nonetheless, he spends the majority of his time tending to his farm and writing a book on agriculture that
emphasizes the need to emancipate serfs. Levin says freedom for farmers is just as important to farming
as is soil/vegetation. Stiva, suffering from financial problems, comes again to visit Levin on the farm.
Stiva made a deal there with a dealer named Ryabinin to sell a forest owned by Dolly. Levin doesn't like
the dealer or the deal--he thinks the price is too low and tells Stiva to raise it. But Stiva says it's too late to
change the terms of the deal. Internally, Levin scoffs at city people, who come to the country with little
knowledge of the land and therefore contribute to its destruction. Stiva also comes to the country bearing
news of Kitty, about whom Levin has been trying not to think. Stiva informs the countryman that the love