Anna Karenina

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.