Tolstoy's masterpiece opens with the most famous line about unhappy families and proceeds to prove it across 800 pages of devastating psychological insight. Anna's doomed affair with Count Vronsky unfolds against the backdrop of 1870s Russian society, but Tolstoy's real subject is how we destroy ourselves trying to reconcile passion with duty, authenticity with convention. No novel has better captured the specific torture of knowing exactly what you're doing wrong while being unable to stop. This Russian literature masterpiece explores love, betrayal, and social constraint with Tolstoy's unmatched psychological depth.
 
 
 
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