Anna Karenina is a rich and masterful story of love in its many facets and complexities: honest, corrupted, nourishing, destructive. Set against the backdrop of luxury and the Russian upper class, it is the story of a passionate love affair doomed from the beginning between beautiful Anna, married and a mother well placed in Russian high society, and cavalry officer Count Vronsky. Called "one of the greatest love stories in world literature" by Vladimir Nabokov, this epic novel is a must-read for any lover of great literature—or any lover at all.