Anna Karenina

Alternative covers can be found here, here, here, here and here. Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density.Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses the very nature of society at all levels - of destiny, death, human relationships and the irreconcilable contradictions of existence. It ends tragically, and there is much that evokes despair, yet set beside this is an abounding joy in lifes many ephemeral pleasures, and a profusion of comic relief.Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Introduction and Notes by E.B. Greenwood, University of Kent

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