Levin's spiritual searching and growth reflect the religious ideals that at the time Tolstoy was evolving for himself.
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. Refusing to conduct a discreet affair, she scandalizes society by abandoning both her husband and her young son for Count Vronsky-with tragic consequences. A sophisticated woman who is respectably married to a government bureaucrat, Anna begins a passionate, all-consuming involvement with a rich army officer. Petersburg high society in the later half of the nineteenth century. "Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." So begins Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy's great modern novel of an adulterous affair set against the backdrop of Moscow and St. This edition, the famous Constance Garnett translation, has been revised throughout by Leonard J.
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