01915cam a2200349 i 4500 610938110 TxAuBib 20110812120000.0 770617|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 77080238 9780679410003 0679410007 9780143035008 pbk. 0143035002 pbk. 9780672523830 0672523833 (OCoLC)3089104 TxAuBib rda eng rus Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. Anna Karenina [Book] / Leo Tolstoy. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier First published in 1875. Story of passion and family conflict set in 19th century upper-class Russia, in which the wife of an aristocrat falls in love with a dashing cavalry officer. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. States Leo Tolstoy in his great modern novel of an adulterous affair set against the backdrop of Moscow and St. Petersburg high society in the later half of the nineteenth century. A sophisticated woman who is respectably married to a government bureaucrat, Anna begins a passionate, all-consuming involvement with a rich army officer. Refusing to conduct a discreet affair, she scandalizes society by abandoning both her husband and her young son for Count Vronsky--with tragic consequences. Running parallel is the story of the courtship and marriage of Konstantin Levin (the melancholy nobleman who is Tolstoy's stand-in) and Princess Kitty Shcherbatsky. RPL Core Collection. Married women Fiction. Adultery. Romance fiction. lcgft Didactic fiction. lcgft