
Anna Karenina is one of the most loved & memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness & density. Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form & it addresses the very nature of society at all levels
- of destiny death human relationships & the irreconcilable contradictions of existence. It ends tragically & there is much that evokes despair yet set beside this is an abounding joy in life's many ephemeral pleasures & a profusion of comic relief.