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Anna KareninaOn the coverPortrait of a Woman, Ivan Kramskoy
Anna Karenina
A married Petersburg aristocrat risks everything for love, while a searching landowner looks for meaning in family and the land, two stories braided into Tolstoy’s panorama of Russian society and the human heart.
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The most emotionally true novel ever written about love and marriage, generous to everyone, including the people who ruin their lives. You’ll recognise someone you know on every page.
SettingRussia, 1870s
A Russian aristocracy that lived between Petersburg salons and country estates, bound by a rigid code in which a man’s affair was overlooked and a woman’s destroyed her. Reform was loosening the old certainties.
On screen & beyond
- Greta Garbo’s Hollywood film (1935)
- Joe Wright’s stylised film with Keira Knightley (2012)
- Bernard Rose’s film with Sophie Marceau (1997)