The first paragraph of the Wikipedia article tells you all you need to know about Anna Karenina. > By the time he was finishing up the last installments, Tolst

The first paragraph of the Wikipedia article tells you all you need to know about Anna Karenina. > By the time he was finishing up the last installments, Tolstoy was in an anguished state of mind and, having come to hate [the book], finished it unwillingly.