Anna Karenina
- ISBN-10
- 1610252101
- ISBN-13
- 9781610252102
- Series
- Anna Karenina
- Category
- Adultery
- Pages
- 897
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1966
- Publisher
- CCEL
- Author
- graf Leo Tolstoy
Description
A married woman falls blindly in love with a handsome military officer. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. States Leo Tolstoy in his great modern novel of an adulterous affair set against the backdrop of Moscow and St. Petersburg high society in the later half of the nineteenth century. A sophisticated woman who is respectably married to a government bureaucrat, Anna begins a passionate, all-consuming involvement with a rich army officer. Refusing to conduct a discreet affair, she scandalizes society by abandoning both her husband and her young son for Count Vronsky--with tragic consequences. Running parallel is the story of the courtship and marriage of Konstantin Levin (the melancholy nobleman who is Tolstoy's stand-in) and Princess Kitty Shcherbatsky.
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