Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy and translated by Rosamund Bartlett
“Although he set out to write a moralising novel showing the evils of Anna’s adultery, his human empathy pushed him in a very different direction.”—Moral philosopher Jonathan Glover on Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.
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