Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy's monumental novel opens with one of literature's most famous lines: 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' At its center is Anna Karenina, a beautiful, married St. Petersburg aristocrat who embarks on a passionate and scandalous affair with the dashing Count Vronsky—a love that brings her both ecstasy and ruin in the rigid, hypocritical world of Imperial Russia. Interwoven with Anna's tragedy is the parallel story of Levin, a soul-searching landowner whose quest for meaning mirrors Tolstoy's own. A sweeping masterpiece of love, fidelity, society, and the search for happiness. A Raven's Gate Classics edition with evocative new cover art.