Lev Tolsztoj - Anna Karenyina 1.-2.

Anna Karenina is certainly the most alive of all the female figures in world literature: we can see her in new movies, ballet performances and musicals, whatever new wave in literature, new morality in society, sexual revolution and feminism may come, her story for some reason never gets old. Even a popular Russian rapper pleads in one of his tracks that "everything will be fine, you don't have to jump under the train".
The secret of its shape is multifaceted; surely it also includes the fact that Tolstoy, who was attracted to beautiful women with elemental strength and sexual appetite (while he considered female beauty and sexuality increasingly sinful over time), created a heroine that was delightful in every way - her beauty, the charm of her flirtation, her thinking, her character, his attitude, his rebellion against the morals of his time are all significant, almost frighteningly charming.
Although Tolstoy originally wanted to make fun of the "nihilists" who destroy the family and the solid moral foundations of society through the character of Anna. It didn't work out that way, because the great artist living in Tolstoy didn't allow his novel to be a textbook. The guilty soul became the most attractive adulterous woman in world literature, and the book - in the words of Thomas Mann - is the "greatest social novel" of all time.