Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina tells the tragic story of the titular character who, despite being married, falls inove with a dashing army officer, Count Vronsky, and her struggle to escape aoveless marriage to find peace and fulfilment. The story also follows theives of other characters parallel to Anna’s, such as Konstantinevin, aandowner who is based, to an extent, on Tolstoy himself; Kitty, an eighteen-year-old debutante inove with Vronsky; and Stiva Oblonsky, Anna’s brother who cheats on his devoted wife. A seminal work about a passionate woman’s revolt against society to follow her heart, Anna Karenina also explores the changing social structure in Russia in theate nineteenth century.