Claire Messud's new novel, The Woman Upstairs, is fiercely intelligent and urgently intimate, written with precision, humor, and an incredible...
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Tolstoy's tumultuous tale of passion and self-discovery marks a turning point in the author's career. His compelling, emotional saga recounts the effects of nonconformist behavior — a society woman's adulterous affair and a landowner's unconventional quest for a meaningful existence — against a backdrop of late 19th-century Russia.
Synopsis:
The tragic story of a married woman's ill-fated affair and its catastrophic consequences, this panoramic novel uses the emotional journey of Anna to map out the full range of human experience.
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by Libri,
The tragic story of a married woman's ill-fated affair and its catastrophic consequences, this panoramic novel uses the emotional journey of Anna to map out the full range of human experience.
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