Torn between the love for her son, the bond of marriage and her passion for another man, Anna Karenina will be engulfed in a conflict so dramatic that it transcends the boundaries of the character to become emblematic, one that will unite her with other tormented figures of women, such as Madame Bovary, to name the most famous. Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses the very nature of society at all levels,- of destiny, death, human relationships and the irreconcilable contradictions of life itself.