
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol
1842

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.
Forbidden Love, Star-Crossed Lovers, Love Triangle, Russian Empire, Melancholic, Satire, Philosophical
Content warnings: suicide