While Anna looks for happiness through love-rashly defying the conventions of Russian society by leaving her husband and son to live with her lover, which finds her condemned and ostracized by her peers and prone to fits of jealousy that alienate Vronsky-Levin embarks on his own search for spiritual fulfillment through marriage, family, and hard work. This impossible and destructive triangle is set against the courtship and marriage of Levin, a melancholy landowner, and Kitty, a beautiful young woman was also initially sought after by Vronsky. The artwork used for the cover is 'Portrait of a Young Woman' by Aleksey Kolesov.Anna Karenina is a powerful meditation on love and marriage, envy and retribution, and the desire for happiness.Ĭonsidered one of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Karenina is the story of Anna, her marriage to Karenin, a high-ranking government minister, and her affair with Vronsky, a wealthy and charismatic military officer. Production notes: This ebook of Anna Karenina was published by Global Grey in 2020, and updated on the 3rd January 2023. This translation by Constance Garnett was first published in 1901. This book has 350,718 words, 706 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1877. № 27 in The Guardian's 100 Greatest Novels Of All Time. Drawing on his own aristocratic upbringing to set the scene for the novel, it is widely believed that the character of Konstantin Levin was based on his own experiences and struggles with religion. Tolstoy’s second novel, it was significant in cementing his role as the primary Russian author of his age. Anna Karenina was first serialized over five years in The Russian Messenger, and then published as a two-volume novel in 1878. 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.

Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society.

Or read online.ĭescribed 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. Anna Karenina Leo TolstoyĪvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle (mobi and AZW3) ebook formats. Buy the entire collection (over 2,400 ebooks) for only £15.

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