Anna Karenina
Author: Tolstoy, Leo
ISBN: 9780099540663
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year First Published: 2010
Pages: 992
Dimensions: 197mm x 131mm x 40mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies
'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies
Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set against the backdrop of Russian high society. Tolstoy charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer who pursues Anna after becoming infatuated with her at a ball. Although she initially resists his charms Anna eventually succumbs, falling passionately in love and setting in motion a chain of events that lead to her downfall. In this extraordinary novel Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, while evoking a love so strong that those who experience it are prepared to die for it.
ISBN: 9780099540663
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year First Published: 2010
Pages: 992
Dimensions: 197mm x 131mm x 40mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies
'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies
Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set against the backdrop of Russian high society. Tolstoy charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer who pursues Anna after becoming infatuated with her at a ball. Although she initially resists his charms Anna eventually succumbs, falling passionately in love and setting in motion a chain of events that lead to her downfall. In this extraordinary novel Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, while evoking a love so strong that those who experience it are prepared to die for it.
