Anna Karenina (Both Volumes with Disc) (Permanent Memory Edition)

Author: Leo Tolstoy
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Publish Date: 2003-05-01
Features: Among all of Tolstoy's works, "War and Peace," "Anna Karenina," and "Resurrection" are three landmarks and also his three representative works. "Anna Karenina" holds a special importance among these three masterpieces. It is the most artistically complete of the three great works and reflects the transition and transformation in Tolstoy's ideological and artistic development. It can be called the masterpiece of the masterpieces. The heroine, Anna Karenina, is a young woman of great beauty, sincere emotions, a rich inner world, and full of vitality. She was married to the much older St. Petersburg official Karenin at the arrangement of her parents and had long been content with the life of a virtuous wife and mother. By chance, she meets the charming young officer Vronsky and falls deeply in love with him. She becomes pregnant out of wedlock. Although she regrets it bitterly and falls seriously ill, she ultimately leaves her family and throws herself into Vronsky's arms.