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Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy · 1878

838 pages

Anna Karenina, married to a senior official, meets the young officer Vronsky at a Moscow railway station, and the attraction between them overturns her settled life. In parallel, the landowner Levin wrestles with faith, work and his courtship of Kitty. The novel follows both households and the price society demands.

Tropes

Forbidden Love, Star-Crossed Lovers, Love Triangle, Russian Empire, Melancholic, Satire, Philosophical

Content warnings: suicide

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