Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

Category: Adults, Classic, Literature, Romance
Language: English
Keywords: Fiction Literature Literary

Written by Leo Tolstoy
Read by Jonathan Keeble
Format: M4B

“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”

Widely considered to be one of Tolstoy’s finest works, Anna Karenina is both a tragic love story and an exploration of the complexities of love, infidelity, and societal expectations in 19th-century Russia.

Anna Karenina seems to have everything—beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalises her family and the hypercritical and unforgiving society in which she lives and soon brings jealously and bitterness in its wake.

As Anna grapples with the consequences of her desires, intertwining narratives reveal the struggles of various characters navigating love, marriage, and morality as the author delves into deep philosophical questions about happiness, duty, and the search for meaning in a world filled with inevitable conflict.