Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

Written by Leo Tolstoy
Read by Wanda McCaddon
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Listening Length: 33 hours and 34 minutes

Tolstoy's masterpiece begins, "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
This is the story of the unhappy family of Anna Karenina. The novel contains much concerning Tolstoy's spiritual crisis and his search for the meaning of life. But it is also chiefly about marriage, and the growth and death of love.

The touching picture of Anna Aarkadyevna Karenina's slow disintegration has fascinated readers for well over a century. Beautiful and charming, Anna lives in a splendid world of her own making. She smokes, rides horseback, plays tennis, takes opium, practices birth control, and (although she is already married) falls in love with a handsome army officer.