ANNA KARENINA (Russian Classics Series)

In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy constructs one of the supreme achievements of nineteenth-century realism: a vast social panorama centered on Anna's adulterous passion for Vronsky and Levin's search for moral, familial, and spiritual coherence. Set amid aristocratic salons, railway stations, country estates, and reform-minded rural Russia, the novel combines psychological penetration with expansive social critique. Its lucid, deceptively simple style renders inward conflict with extraordinary precisio ...