Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina is rightly called the most famous and popular love novel in the world. The immense exploration of the human soul, as Dostoevsky commented on the book, is probably what captivates us most in this work. It is a story of all-consuming passion, a story of a married woman who falls in love with a handsome officer and leaves her husband in defiance of everything: the opinions of society, accepted morality, and her own conscience. Anna Karenina has been adapted to film 30 times, with music for the ballet composed by Tchaikovsky and Rodion Shchedrin, and the main character has been portrayed in film by Greta Garbo and Vivien Leigh, Alla Tarasova and Tatyana Samoylova, Sophie Marceau and Keira Knightley. This book is certainly much more than just a love story; it is a whole science about family, society, and life.