Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is considered by many to be one of the greatest novels ever written. This study, first published in 1989, of its morally ambiguous protagonist, Anna, discusses Tolstoy's troubled relation to the feminine in terms of the fantasies, hopes, and fears that she represents.
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