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Synopsis

Anna Karenina is a novel by Russian author Graf Leo Tolstoy. The story of woman, who
once mediated to solve family problems on account of adulteries of his brother, fall
herself in a similar situation later. Anna Karenina, wife of Karenin a statesman.
Infatuated, fell in love and later married to a young cavalry officer, Anna’s activities are
considered as disgraceful by the society. Her plea for divorce, from his husband is
realized in an ironical situation.
Unable to mingle with society unlike her young husband, she started using sedatives to
sleep.  This novel is written in eight parts and explores many lives of adulteries and
social issues existed in the then Russian society. Anna Karenina is considered the
flawless work of literature by the literary world and memorized as one the best literary
works of yester years.

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