TY - BOOK AU - Tolstoy, Leo, graf, AU - Zinovieff, Kyrill AU - Hughes, Jenny TI - Anna Karenina SN - 9781847493682 AV - PG3366 .A6 PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - Alma Classics KW - Married women KW - Fiction KW - Adultery KW - Russia KW - Social life and customs KW - READING IN ENGLISH KW - Didactic fiction KW - Love stories KW - Russian literature KW - Literary classics N1 - Contains a preface and translator’s note, an extensive critical apparatus, extra reading material including a section of photographs and notes N2 - Leo Tolstoy’s most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutinizes fundamental ethical and theological questions through the tragic story of its eponymous heroine. Anna is desperately pursuing a good, “moral” life, standing for honesty and sincerity. Passion drives her to adultery, and this flies in the face of the corrupt Russian bourgeoisie. Meanwhile, the aristocrat Konstantin Levin is struggling to reconcile reason with passion, espousing a Christian anarchism that Tolstoy himself believed in. Acclaimed by critics and readers alike, Anna Karenina presents a poignant blend of realism and lyricism that makes it one of the most perfect, enduring novels of all time ER -