by Leo Tolstoy
First published 2006
Anna Karenina walks a razor's edge between desire and duty in 19th-century Russia. Married to a cold bureaucrat and mother to a young son, she encounters Count Vronsky—a magnetic cavalry officer who awakens a consuming passion that threatens everything. Their affair becomes scandalous, forcing Anna to choose between social respectability and true emotional connection. As whispers and judgment close in from all sides, Anna risks everything—her marriage, her child, her place in aristocratic society—for a love that promises total liberation but threatens total destruction. Her choice will not just transform her life, but expose the brutal moral calculations of an entire social system.
Genres: fiction, drama, romance, literary-fiction, historical-fiction, 19th-century
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, forbidden-love
Setting: Russia
Period: 19th-Century
108 pages · Paperback · Aegypan