Presents part two of Tolstoy's epic novel about the lives of five aristocratic families in Moscow and St. Petersburg against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars of 1805-14.
In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage.
Contains the title story in which the life of a peaceful public official is permanently changed by a mysterious illness, and includes "Family Happiness," "The Kreutzer Sonata," and "Master and Man," also by the nineteenth-century Russian author.
An English translation of Leo Tolstoy's classic epic novel about the lives of five aristocratic families in Moscow and St. Petersburg against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars of 1805 to 1814.
