Anna Karenina is a beautiful and intelligent woman, whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties--to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society around her. Her love affair with Vronsky is played out alongside the developing romance between Kitty and Levin, and in the character of Levin, closely based on Tolstoy himself, the search for happiness takes on a deeper philosophical...

Set in late 19th century Russia high-society, aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.

Set in late-19th-century Russia high-society, the aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent and handsome Count Vronsky. Tolstoy's novel adaptation.

Tragedy strikes as Anna and the Count find their passionate affair challenged by society.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-369) and index. The Iliad ; The Odyssey / Homer -- The Bible: The Old Testament, The New Testament -- The Aeneid / Virgil -- Metamorphoses / Ovid -- Beowulf / Anonymous -- Inferno ; Paradiso / Dante Alighieri -- The Decameron / Giovanni Boccaccio -- The Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer -- The Faerie Queene / Edmund Spenser -- Hamlet; King Lear; Macbeth / William Shakespeare -- Don Quixote / Miguel de...