Anna Karenina (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

About the book

A glittering affair begins in Russian high society.
Tolstoy follows its consequences through marriage, family and the search for meaning.

Anna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her towards ruin.
Yet Anna Karenina is far more than one of world literature's great love stories. Twinned with Anna's story is that of Levin, an awkward idealist whose happy marriage and domestic trials become part of his own search for meaning.
Moving between Moscow, St Petersburg and the Russian countryside, Tolstoy creates a rich social novel about desire, family, morality and spiritual uncertainty. Anna's defiance of society is set against Levin's attempts to understand work, faith, marriage and goodness,...