Love without the prejudice

By Kaleem Aftab
January 18 2013 - 3:00am

A NNA Karenina is commonly regarded as one of the great romantic heroines of literature. In Leo Tolstoy's Russian classic, Karenina leaves her husband and children for her lover despite the obvious consternation of friends, family and society. And so thought Keira Knightley when she landed the part, before she reread the weighty tome. ''I think Tolstoy is absolutely making the moral point that you shouldn't do what she does,'' she says. ''I think she is the anti-heroine.

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