Author(s): Tolstoy, Leo,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 04/02/2010,
Pagination: 992 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Vintage Classics,
Published By: Vintage Publishing,
Book Classification: Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Dimensions: 193 x 126 x 44mm
Weight: 676g
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780099540663

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'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.