If you like fiery romance but do not care for pornographic scenes, there couldn't be a more perfect classic than Anna Karenina. This Tolstoy's masterpiece, unlike most romance novels, does more than try to get a rise out of you or make you yearn for chiseled muscles/soft, rounded arms; it teaches you an important aspect about the meaning of love, and I'll tell you exactly what. Anna is the young vivacious jewel of St Petersburg's, Russia, high-class society. She married Alexei Karenin, a politician who is in love with her but has a personality that is often described as mechanical; in a way, Karenin is presented as a perfect product of systems, he doesn't really understand the humanity of the world much less of his own self. He struggles with understanding his emotions or even feeling them. Although Karenin is 20years older than Anna, they have a nice and stable marriage that's crowned with their son Sekoyva. Early in the book, Anna describes him as a good m...
Discovering the ideas 'between the lines' of everyday life (Written in English I Le Français I Asụsụ Igbo)