Anna Karenina

"Anna Karenina" by graf Leo Tolstoy is a novel first published in book form in 1878. The story follows Anna, a married socialite, whose affair with cavalry officer Count Vronsky scandalizes Saint Petersburg society and forces them to flee to Italy. Meanwhile, a parallel narrative traces landowner Konstantin Levin's courtship of Kitty and his struggles with faith and estate management. Set against Imperial Russia's rapid social transformation, the novel explores themes of betrayal, marriage, family, desire, and the clash between rural and urban life. (This is an automatically generated summary.)