Anna Karenina (Volumes 1 and 2) (Illustrated Edition)

Author: (Russian) Leo Tolstoy
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Publish Date: 1989-08-01
Features: Anna Karenina is a novel named after the character Anna Karenina. In the novel, Anna's character indeed occupies the central position. Anna is a young woman with natural beauty, sincere emotions, and a rich inner world. She is arranged by her aunt to marry a conservative and much older bureaucrat, Karenin. For many years, she lives a life of a dutiful wife and mother, but her encounter with Vronsky rekindles her pursuit of life and love. In the upper class society of that time, adultery was not uncommon, but Anna refused to deceive her husband for a long time and resolutely made her ambiguous relationship with Vronsky public. As a result, she was abandoned by the upper class society and also subjected to revenge from Karenin. She struggles desperately, but still cannot escape her tragic fate, and eventually commits suicide by lying on the tracks.