Anna karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of litrerature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of uarallelled richness and density.

Tolstoy, considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses the very nature of society at all levels – of destiny, death, human relationships and the irreconcilable contradiction of exitence. It ends tragically, and and there is much that evokes despair. Yet set beside this is an abounding iyo in life`s many ephemeral pleasures, and a profusion of comic relief.