Anna Karenina

Admired but unfulfilled, Russian socialite Anna Karenina is faced with a choice – remain with her husband to keep her beloved child, or risk ruin in the pursuit of passion in Tolstoi’s classic. The steam train is an element that has often been used on book covers – it’s a symbol of the indutrial age where the action takes place in, and it plays a pivotal role in Anna’s story: she first meet Vronsky at a train station, and she takes her own life by throwing herself under the wheels of a train at the end of the novel. The image show Anna’s profile hovering over a steam train, with the smoke coming out of the engine turning into Anna’s hair.