Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy, Coralie Bickford-Smith, John Bayley, Coralie Bickford-smith, Larissa Volokhonsky
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.
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“But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.”
Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy
“The role of the disappointed lover of a maiden or of any single woman might be ridiculous; but the role of a man who was pursuing a married woman, and who made it the purpose of his life at all cost to draw her into adultery, was one which had in it something beautiful and dignified and could never be ridiculous.”
Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy