Anna Karenin Author:Leo Tolstoy From The Introduction by translator Rosemary Edmonds: — "In Anna Karenin,which has been aclaimed the world's greatest novel, we have a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general, yet continuity of action never flags and the principal characters are kept well in the foreground. Tolstoy points no moral: he leaves the sh... more »ifting kaleidoscope to bring home the meaning of the brooding words following the title. And we do not judge: we watch. For us there is but one solution-clemency and love..."« less