“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Anna, the wife of a senior official in St. Petersburg, meets the officer Vronsky at a Moscow railway station, and her life is turned upside down. Meanwhile, in the countryside, Levin looks for a reason to live, with Kitty and in working the land.
Balls, horse races, haymaking and trains in the snow: Tolstoy brings the whole of the Russia of his day into this novel, often cited as one of the greatest ever written. We watch a society that is lenient towards secret affairs close ranks against a woman who refuses to lie.
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