A brief synopsis of Anna Karenina:
When Anna Karenina meets Count Vronsky, she has been married to a respectable, high-ranking husband for ten years and is the mother of a son she adores. Vronsky turns her world upside down when they fall deeply in love. When Anna becomes pregnant with her lover’s daughter, her husband tries to pretend that nothing has changed, though he threatens to keep her from her son if she leaves him. When Anna is near death after giving birth, both men try to compromise and for a while it appears that Anna will be able to live with her lover and keep her son, but not with the blessing of society, or a divorce. Soon it becomes apparent that she cannot live with Vronsky; the disapproval of society and the stress threaten to destroy their love and soon they destroy her.
(Kliatt, July 2007 v41 i4 p55(1) )
