ANNA KARENINA - Wordsworth Classics

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