Anna Karenina (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Leo Tolstoy pen portraits of the women

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Or that Leonardo Da Vinci lived at the same time as Henry VIII and the Aztecs

internal thoughts—Joyce’s famous stream of consciousness—give physical reality extra colour and perspective

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Anna Karenina (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Leo Tolstoy pen portraits of the womenAnna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin. But her story is also about a search for meaning, and by twinning it with that of Levin, an awkward idealist whose happy marriage and domestic trials form the backdrop for a similar quest, Tolstoy creates a rich and complex masterpiece that has captured the imagination of readers for decades.