Tolstoy's Inner Monologue

Tolstoy's novel is a story about how Levin virtue cannot be separated and how we are the authors of our own destruction. Anna Karenina initially rejects Vronsky's attentions, even though she is flattered by them. And then she has this famous love affair that eventually leads to her leaving her husband for Vronsky. The book also deals with political economy and the fashionable ideas moving through the political circles in Russia at the time.