Anna Karenina (Collector's Edition Hardcover)

Anna Karenina is a story about a married aristocrat/socialite and her affair with the wealthy Count Vronsky. The narrative begins with her arrival at a family torn apart by her brother's rampant womanizing. Vronsky, a single man, is keen on marrying her if she agrees to leave her husband Karenin, a high-ranking government official. However, she finds herself torn between Russian social expectations, the moral teachings of the Russian Orthodox Church, her own insecurities, and Karenin's indecisiveness.

Considered a masterpiece in the genre of realism, Anna Karenina follows the life of aristocrat Anna Karenina in St. Petersburg against the backdrop of 19th-century feudal Russian society. While Tolstoy did not view War and Peace as a true novel, he regarded Anna Karenina as his first authentic work of fiction. Fyodor Dostoyevsky praised it as "flawless as a work of art," a sentiment echoed by Vladimir Nabokov who admired the impeccable style of Tolstoy, and William Faulkner who deemed it the greatest novel ever written.

This collector's edition features a dust jacket inspired by the Victorian era.

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