Anna Karenina (Barnes & Noble Classics)

Married to a government minister, Anna Karenina falls deeply in love with the elegant Count Vronsky. Anna defies the conventions of Russian society, deciding to live with Vronsky. Condemned and ostracized by her peers, Anna finds herself unable to escape an increasingly hopeless situation.

From its famous opening sentence--"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."--to its stunningly tragic conclusion, this enduring tale of marriage and adultery plumbs the very depths of the human soul.

Amy Mandelker, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center

of the City University of New York, is the author of "Framing Anna Karenina: Tolstoy, the "Woman Question, and the "Victorian Novel and coeditor of "Approaches to Teaching Anna Karenina.