Anna Karenina is a realist novel written by Russian novelist, short story writer, philosopher and playwright Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Leo Tolstoy. Fyodor Dostoyevsky declared it as 'flawless as a work of art'. His opinion was shared by Vladimir Nabokov who said 'the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style' and by William Faulkner who described it as 'the best ever written'. Anna Karenina is a tragic story of a married aristocrat and her affair with the Count Vronsky. Bachelor Vronsky is eager to ma