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Even if Anna Karenina is married to the older and influential statesman Alexei Karenin, she falls for the charming Count Vronsky, who is already courting the lovely Kitty. But when Vronsky falls in love with Anna too, their mutual attraction ignites a scandal that threatens to consume them both. Meanwhile, Konstantin Levin, a man who longs for a simple and meaningful life in the countryside, proposes to Kitty. Although her heart once belonged to another, her feelings for Levin slowly change. Between love, scandals, and a shifting 19th-century Russia in the background, personal choices become political and every heart is at risk. Anna Karenina is sometimes regarded as the greatest novel of all time. Tolstoy’s depiction of human nature is both realistic and beautiful, while his prose is deeply moving. All of this makes for a timeless masterpiece you won’t be able to forget!
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Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
Translated by Constance Garnett
PART ONE
Chapter 1
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every person in the house felt that there was no sense in their living together, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one another than they, the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys. The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days. The children ran wild all over the house; the English governess quarreled with the housekeeper, and wrote to a friend asking her to look out for a new situation for her; the man-cook had walked off the day before just at dinner time; the kitchen-maid, and the coachman had given warning.
Three days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky Stiva, as he was called in the fashionable world woke up at his usual hour, that is, at eight o’clock in the morning, not in his wife’s bedroom, but on the leather-covered sofa in his study. He turned over his stout, well-cared-for person on the springy sofa, as though he would sink into a long sleep again; he vigorously embraced the pillow on the other side and buried his face in it; but all at once he jumped up, sat up on the sofa, and opened his eyes.
“Yes, yes, how was it now?” he thought, going over his dream. “Now, how was it? To be sure! Alabin was giving a dinner at Darmstadt; no, not Darmstadt, but something American. Yes, but then, Darmstadt ...
Section 1 of 239 sections
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About this book
Even if Anna Karenina is married to the older and influential statesman Alexei Karenin, she falls for the charming Count Vronsky, who is already courting the lovely Kitty. But when Vronsky falls in love with Anna too, their mutual attraction ignites a scandal that threatens to consume them both. Meanwhile, Konstantin Levin, a man who longs for a simple and meaningful life in the countryside, proposes to Kitty. Although her heart once belonged to another, her feelings for Levin slowly change. Between love, scandals, and a shifting 19th-century Russia in the background, personal choices become political and every heart is at risk. Anna Karenina is sometimes regarded as the greatest novel of all time. Tolstoy’s depiction of human nature is both realistic and beautiful, while his prose is deeply moving. All of this makes for a timeless masterpiece you won’t be able to forget!
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P01C01
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
Translated by Constance Garnett
PART ONE
Chapter 1
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every person in the house felt that there was no sense in their living together, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one another than they, the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys. The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days. The children ran wild all over the house; the English governess quarreled with the housekeeper, and wrote to a friend asking her to look out for a new situation for her; the man-cook had walked off the day before just at dinner time; the kitchen-maid, and the coachman had given warning.
Three days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky Stiva, as he was called in the fashionable world woke up at his usual hour, that is, at eight o’clock in the morning, not in his wife’s bedroom, but on the leather-covered sofa in his study. He turned over his stout, well-cared-for person on the springy sofa, as though he would sink into a long sleep again; he vigorously embraced the pillow on the other side and buried his face in it; but all at once he jumped up, sat up on the sofa, and opened his eyes.
“Yes, yes, how was it now?” he thought, going over his dream. “Now, how was it? To be sure! Alabin was giving a dinner at Darmstadt; no, not Darmstadt, but something American. Yes, but then, Darmstadt ...
Section 1 of 239 sections
