Anna Karenina

Author: Tolstoy, Leo

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 4 February 2010 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 992 pages
193 x 126 x 44 | 676g

'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.