Monday, June 30, 2008

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina primarily concerns the illicit affair of two people high in society and the struggle of a man who aims to win the love of a princess. Their marital life is also rather rocky, all owing to his strange ideals. Anna Karenina's bulk (a dense 963 pager in one edition) probably scares the world away before the long, descriptive sentences do. Despite these, in the Russian novel is a rich story famed for the realism of each character's actions and feeling- repulsive or foolish as they may seem.