A married aristocrat's passionate affair with a dashing officer unravels her life, her reputation, and everything she believed about love.
About This Book
The must-have Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of one of the greatest Russian novels ever written Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,” Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and thereby exposes herself to the hypocrisies of society.
Who This Is For
Best for readers who want to feel something deeply, books that stay with you long after the last page. This is a book that asks something of you. Dense, layered, and best read slowly. It takes its time, and that's the point. Patience is rewarded. If you prefer to read at arm's length, this one may get too close.
Best Read When
Best read when you're in the mood for something moving and emotionally resonant, and a read that's slow and deeply immersive.
What It Explores
Anna Karenina explores love in its most complicated forms, identity and the gap between who we are and who we pretend to be, power structures and how they shape individual lives, and loss and what remains after it.
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