- Published: 6 June 2003
- ISBN: 9780141902838
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 864
Anna Karenina
'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies
Acclaimed by many as the world's greatest novel, this is the story of a wife, Anna Karenina, who abandons her empty existence as the wife of a Petersburg government minister for a passionate relationship with a young officer, Count Vronsky.
- Published: 6 June 2003
- ISBN: 9780141902838
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 864
Other books in the series
About the author
Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Tula province. He studied at the University of Kazan, then led a life of pleasure until 1851 when he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus. He established his reputation as a writer with The Sebastopol Sketches (1855-6). After a period in St Petersburg and abroad, he married, had thirteen children, managed his vast estates in the Volga Steppes and wrote War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). A Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life, and in 1901 he was excommuincated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in 1910, in the course of a dramatic flight from home, at the railway station of Astapovo.
Related titles
Discover more
Some of the biggest burns from classic literature.
