Anna Karenina

Product DescriptionThis title presents the sweeping love story of two people who defy the conventions of their age to follow the dictates of their hearts. Trapped in a stifling marriage, Anna Karenina is swept off her feet by the dashing Count Vronsky. When the truth about their passionate liaison comes out, Anna’s husband is more concerned with keeping up appearances than anything else, but at last he seeks a reluctant divorce. Rejected by society, the two lovers flee to Italy, where Anna finds herself isolated from all except the man she loves, and who loves her. But can they live by love alone? In this novel of astonishing scope and grandeur, Leo Tolstoy, the great master of Russian literature, charts the course of the human heart. "Alle lykkelige familier ligner hverandre, hver ulykkelig familie er ulykkelig på sin egen måte." Slik innledes en av litteraturhistoriens store romaner, "Anna Karenia" av Lev Tolstoj (1828-1910). Boken utkom i Russland i årene 1875-1877, få år etter at han fullførte kjempeverket "Krig og Fred". Det er den sosialt respektable og vakre Anna Karenina historien kretser om. Hun bryter sitt ekteskap og forlater sitt barn da hun møter den store kjærligheten i den flotte offiseren Vronskij. Men hos Tolstoj viser ikke denne kjærligheten seg som noe varmt og vedvarende. Snart skildres den som en skjebnesvanger sykdom som plutselig slår ned og rammer menneskets vilje 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. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness.