Anna Karenina
Tolstoy's tragic epic of a married aristocrat's affair, set against a panorama of Russian society and one man's search for meaning.
Tolstoy opens with one of literature’s most famous lines about happy and unhappy families, then tells two intertwined stories. Anna, a married noblewoman, risks everything for a passionate affair that society will not forgive, while the landowner Levin searches, more quietly, for meaning and faith. Around them Tolstoy paints a vast picture of Russian life. The result is both an intimate tragedy and a sweeping inquiry into love, duty, and how to live.
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