Anna Karenina
Author: Leo Tolstoy
An alternative cover edition can be found here.,,At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties – to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society around her. The love affair of Anna and Vronsky is played ou….Read More
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