Anna Karenin

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Condición del ejemplar: Acceptable. Anna Karenina is beautiful, intelligent and admired by Russian high society, married to a powerful government official and devoted to her young son. When she meets the dashing cavalry officer Count Vronsky, she is swept into a passion that defies the rules of her world. Her decision to follow her heart sets in motion a tragedy that will cost her everything. In parallel, Tolstoy tells the story of Konstantin Levin, an earnest and thoughtful landowner who searches for meaning in farming, family life and faith, and of his long courtship of the young Kitty Shcherbatskaya. Through these contrasting lives, and those of a vivid cast of relatives, friends and servants, the novel paints a vast and penetrating portrait of Russian society in the 1870s, from glittering ballrooms and drawing rooms in Moscow and St. Petersburg to the fields and villages of the countryside. Often called one of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Karenin explores love, marriage, jealousy, hypocrisy, social change and the search for a life worth living, with a psychological insight that still feels astonishingly modern. This Penguin Classics edition presents Rosemary Edmonds’s well-loved translation, which helped introduce Tolstoy’s masterpiece to generations of English-speaking readers.