Book Condition: NEW
Jacket Condition: No Jacket (As Issued)
Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall"
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New Edition
Year of Publish: 2010

Additional Info'
NEW BOOK: Glazed pictorial card wraps, 992pp. 'All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way'. Anna Karenina" is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set against the backdrop of Russian high society. Tolstoy charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer who pursues Anna after becoming infatuated with her at a ball.
Although she initially resists his charms Anna eventually succumbs, falling passionately in love and setting in motion a chain of events that lead to her downfall. In this extraordinary novel, Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, while evoking a love so strong that those who experience it are prepared to die for it. (Any digital image can be provided upon request.)