The doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer Count Vronsky is soon to become a major motion picture starring Keira Knightley and Jude Law. The robust and sometimes shocking quality of Tolstoy's writing is brought to vivid life by writer Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love) and director Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice, Atonement) in this adaptation of one of the most famous novels of love and family happiness. Set to release at the start of the holidays, the film will bring new readers to this beautiful, vigorous, and eminently readable edition of Anna Karenina translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky