Tolstoy, Leo

Anna Karenina leaves home and husband to give herself to Count Vronsky.

Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness.

An epic novel featuring the Russian role in the Napoleonic wars and providing a complex panorama of the life of the time.