Anna Karenina (1878) deals with politics, philosophy, psychology, and ethics, but most profoundly with the nature of love. In this novel, Tolstoy posed poignant questions about passion, women’s rights, and views on adultery but left most of them tantalizingly unresolved. While the novel will be the centerpiece of this conversation, the lecture will also examine how Tolstoy treated the topic before and after Anna Karenina.