![]() ![]() At the center is one of the great heroines of literature.You will fall in love with Anna as she leaves a cold marriage with a well-to-do Russian bureaucrat (Alexei Karenin) for a passionate affair with a young military officer (Count Vronsky), which evolves into pregnancy, societal recrimination, separation from the son she had with Karenin, moments of ecstasy with Vronsky, and then a slow spiral into guilt, insecurity, jealousy, and, ultimately, death. Once you have started the novel, you will be completely transported into a complex world that will enthrall, inspire, and awe you and ultimately break your heart. Joe Wright's film, while perhaps interesting in its own terms, is a perversion of one of the world's great books. But do not go to Anna Karenina, the current movie, thinking you will get a two- hour essence of the novel. Don't settle for silver or bronze - or modern dross - when you can give the purest gold. For the holidays, buy someone you care about deeply Tolstoy's novel, Anna Karenina. ![]()
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