Published in serial form between 1875 and 1877, Anna Karenina is considered by many critics to be the greatest novel ever written. Tolstoy follows the passionate Anna Karenina as she abandons her respectable life for a consuming love affair with the dashing Count Vronsky — while alongside her story, the novel traces the contrasting domestic happiness of the landowner Levin and the peasant girl Kitty. The novel opens with perhaps the most famous sentence in world literature.
Anna Karenina is both a gripping domestic drama and a profound philosophical meditation on faith, work, love, and the moral life. Download this free English-translation EPUB from Better Gutenberg and read Tolstoy’s supreme achievement.