Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina بقلم Leo Tolstoy ... About the Book: Anna Karenina "There are as many kinds of love, as there are hearts." In the nineteenth century Russian high society, the ravishing, aristocratic Anna Karenina is married to Alexey Alexandrovitch Karenin, a senior statesman, twenty years her senior. But as her passionate and restless spirit compels her, she falls in love with Count Vronsky-a young and wealthy military officer. And now, Anna wants to break away from her cold marriage. As Karenin refuses to separate, Anna is doomed. Caught between the rigorous societal norms, laws, and the Orthodox Church, she is consumed by guilt and isolation. What becomes of Anna as she is left tormented?
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Tula province. He studied at the University of Kazan, then led a life of pleasure until 1851 when he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus. He established his reputation as a writer with The Sebastopol Sketches (1855-6). After a period in St Petersburg and abroad, he married, had thirteen children, managed his vast estates in the Volga Steppes and wrote War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). A Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life, and in 1901 he was excommuincated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in 1910, in the course of a dramatic flight from home, at the railway station of Astapovo.