6 novels about grand passions

6 novels about grand passions

4. ‘Anna Karenina,’ by Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy creates a unique cast of major characters, but his plot centers on the affair between adulterous lovers Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky. The author criticizes society’s punitive response to the affair, and repeatedly invokes the importance of forgiveness.  ‘Anna Karenina’ belongs to a special class of books, the type of which it is not outlandish to say “this is the best novel ever written.”

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