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020			_a978-1-784-87195-6
040			_cVintage
082			_a891.733 T588 A _b301440
100			_aLeo Toystoy; Tr. by Louise and Aylmer Maude
245			_aAnna Karenina
260			_aLondon _bVintage _c2010
300			_axiv,963 Pp
521			_aAnna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set against the backdrop of Russian high society. Tolstoy charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer who pursues Anna after becoming infatuated with her at a ball. Although she initially resists his charms Anna eventually succumbs, falling passionately in love and setting in motion a chain of events that lead to her downfall. In this extraordinary novel Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, while evoking a love so strong that those who experience it are prepared to die for it.
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