Anna Karenina Illustrated

Anna Karenina is widely regarded as one of the great 19th century novels and one of the most significant books ever written. Through the lives of an extended family of Russian aristocrats and their excesses, affairs, and other struggles, it explores the extreme changes occurring in Russian society as well as timeless themes such as love, marriage, jealousy, and death.Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Many authors consider Anna Karenina the greatest work of literature ever written, and Tolstoy himself called it his first true novel. It was initially released in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger.