Анна Каренина

Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “impeccable,” Anna Karenina tells the failed love story between the sensual and rebellious Anna and the handsome officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds when Anna dispassionately rejects her marriage and thereby exposes herself to society's hypocrisies. Set against a vast, richly textured canvas of 19th-century Russia, the novel's seven main characters create a dynamic imbalance, representing the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness.

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KARENIN and his wife continued to live under the same roof, met every day, and yet remained completely strangers to each other.

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