Married women - Fiction, Adultery - Fiction. Karenina, Anna - Fiction 

The Constance Garnett translation has been revised throughout by the editors 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 Their subsequent affair scandalizes society and family alike and soon brings jealously and bitterness in its wake Contrasting with this tale of love and self destruction is the vividly observed story of Levin a man striving to find contentment and a meaning to his life and also a self portrait of Tolstoy himself This new translation has been acclaimed as the definitive version of Tolstoy s masterpiece It also contains an introduction by Richard Pevear and a preface by John Bayley A famous legend surrounding the creation of Anna Karenina tells us that Tolstoy began writing a cautionary tale about adultery and ended up falling in love with his magnificent heroine It is rare to find a reader of the book who doesn t experience the same kind of emotional upheaval Anna Karenina is filled with major and minor characters who exist in their own right and fully embody their mid nineteenth century Russian milieu but it still belongs entirely to the woman whose name it bears whose portrait is one of the truest ever made by a writer Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written Anna Karenina is Tolstoy s classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg A rich and complex masterpiece the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna a beautiful married woman and Count Vronsky a wealthy army officer Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives o - from Amzon