Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics) Book

Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. War and Peace author Leo Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses the very nature of society at all levels - of destiny, death, human relationships and the irreconcilable contradictions of existence. It ends tragically, and there is much that evokes despair, yet set beside this is an abounding joy in life's many ephemeral pleasures, and an element of comic relief.

'Everything is finished. I have nothing but you now. Remember that' Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky.

Acclaimed by many as the world's greatest novel this is the story of a wife Anna Karenina who abandons her empty existence as the wife of a Petersburg government minister for a passionate relationship with a young officer Count Vronsky.