No spoilers since people are still reading it for the last discussion. Anna Karenina is, at first glance, the story of Russian noblewoman who has an affair and ultimately leaves her husband for her lover. A second storyline involves Konstantin Levin, a landowner who marries a princess who was jilted by Count Vronsky, Anna's lover. Because of the title it appears that the main focus of the story is Anna and her illicit affair but a large portion of the book concerns Levin, his farming, marriage, his dying brother, and the political situation in late Nineteenth Century Russia. The crux of the entire book is Russian society and it's inconsistencies, prejudices, arrogance, and failure to acknowledge the rapid changes taking place in the world outside of their own closed culture.
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