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  • Published: 29 May 1992
  • ISBN: 9781857150582
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 964
  • RRP: $49.99

Anna Karenina





'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies


'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies

Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set against the backdrop of Russian high society. Tolstoy charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer who pursues Anna after becoming infatuated with her at a ball. Although she initially resists his charms Anna eventually succumbs, falling passionately in love and setting in motion a chain of events that lead to her downfall. In this extraordinary novel Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, while evoking a love so strong that those who experience it are prepared to die for it.

  • Published: 29 May 1992
  • ISBN: 9781857150582
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 964
  • RRP: $49.99

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