ANNA KARENINA
 
Leo Tolstoy�s Anna Karenina was first published in serial instalments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. A canvas exploring a diverse array of themes matrimony, politics, philosophy, altruism, adultery, religion and death, it is a masterpiece in realist fiction.
Anna Karenina, a married aristocrat and socialite from St. Petersburg, falls in love with Count Vronsky, a suave military officer. Hemmed in by the laws of the Russian Orthodox Church, Anna is indecisive and anxious about leaving her husband and starting a new life with Vronsky. A social outcast, Anna is a voracious reader and detests fakery that she feels her husband epitomizes. Unfortunately, with her growing suspicion of Vronsky� s fidelity, her affair brings her more misery than joy. Eventually, her paranoia leads her to taking her own life.
�Flawless as a work of art� is how Fyodor Dostoyevsky described Anna Karenina.
 
About the Author
 
Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in Russia�s Tula Province, Yasnaya Polyana, into an aristocratic family. Regarded as �the greatest living novelist� by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Virginia Woolf, Tolstoy�s two seminal works are War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1878).
When he was a student of Oriental Languages at the University of Kazan, his teachers thought he was an incapable student who was unwilling to learn. Unsurprisingly, Tolstoy returned to Yasnaya Polyana. In 1851, reeling under gambling debts, he decided to accompany his elder brother Nikolay, an army officer, to the Caucasus and join the army. He served as a second lieutenant in the Crimean War (1853-1856). It was during this period that the writer in him was born.

One of his earliest and most notable autobiographical novels was Childhood, Boyhood and Youth (1852-1856). Novellas such as The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) and Hadji Murad (1912) followed. In his last days, Tolstoy was revered as a moral and religious teacher. Even Mahatma Gandhi sought the Grand Old Man�s advice on non-violence and resistance. In 1910, Tolstoy died of heart failure at the railroad station of Astapovo, Russia. He was 82.
 
Product details
Publisher : Om Books International (28 May 2018); Om Books International, 107 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002, India, Tel.(11) 4000 9000, Fax, (11) 23278091
Language : English
Paperback : 888 pages
ISBN-10 : 9352762932
ISBN-13 : 978-9352762934
Item Weight : 381 g
Dimensions : 11.6 x 5.6 x 19 cm