​If Anna Karenina has been sitting on your bucket list for years, this is your chance to read it with a guide.

​This series is for people who have always wanted to read classic literature but may have felt intimidated by the size, reputation, or difficulty of the books themselves.

​Join us for a six-week guided reading series on Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, a sweeping novel about love, marriage, family, faith, and the pressures of Russian society.

​Each week, you’ll move through the novel with structure, context, and conversation. You’ll understand what’s happening, appreciate why it matters, and experience the book without feeling like you have to figure it all out alone.

​The Schedule:

​Over six Monday evenings, we’ll move through the novel in roughly equal sections:

​September 28: Part 1

​October 5: Part 2 and Part 3, Chapters 1–10

​October 12: Part 3, Chapter 11 through Part 4

​October 19: Part 5 and Part 6, Chapters 1–7

​October 26: Part 6, Chapter 8 through Part 7, Chapter 8

​November 2: Part 7, Chapter 9 through Part 8

​Each two-hour session, from 6–8 p.m., will combine lecture, guided discussion, and close reading of the text.

​Your Instructor: Theodore Yurevitch

​The series will be led by Theodore Yurevitch, Associate Professor in the Department of Composition and Literary Studies at Austin Community College.

​Theo holds an MA in English from Vanderbilt and an MFA in Creative Writing from Florida State University. His academic background includes Early Modern English literature, nineteenth-century literature, and the novel. He is especially interested in the way deep reading makes people better writers.

​The series runs for six weeks:
Mondays from 6:00-8:00 p.m.
September 28th through November 2nd
at The Rosedale Society.