Anna Karenina

Set against the backdrop of Russian high society, this novel charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer who pursues Anna after becoming infatuated with her at a ball.

''The greatest love story I''ve ever read'' Andrew Davies

Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set against the backdrop of Russian high society. Tolstoy charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer who pursues Anna after becoming infatuated with her at a ball. Although she initially resists his charms Anna eventually succumbs, falling passionately in love and setting in motion a chain of events that lead to her downfall. In this extraordinary novel Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, while evoking a love so strong that those who experience it are prepared to die for it.

• | Author: Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude
• | Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• | Publication Date: Feb 04, 2010
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• | Language: eng
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780099540663
• | ISBN-10: 0099540665