(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) A famous legend surrounding the
creation of "Anna Karenina" tells us that Tolstoy began writing a
cautionary tale about adultery and ended up falling in love with
his magnificent heroine. It is rare to find a reader of the book
who doesn't experience the same kind of emotional upheaval. Anna
Karenina is filled with major and minor characters who exist in
their own right and fully embody their mid-nineteenth-century
Russian milieu, but it still belongs entirely to the woman whose
name it bears, whose portrait is one of the truest ever made by a
writer. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude