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Anna Karenina
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  • She finished Anna Karenina, four months after she'd first started reading it.†   (source)
  • Anna Karenina throws herself under the train, Emma Bovary solves her problem with poison, D. H. Lawrence's characters are always engaging in physical violence toward one another, Joyce's Stephen Dedalus is beaten by soldiers, Faulkner's Colonel Sartoris becomes a greater local legend when he guns down two carpetbaggers in the streets of Jefferson, and Wile E. Coyote holds up his little "Yikes" sign before he plunges into the void as his latest gambit to catch the Road Runner fails.†   (source)
  • All I can say is that Anna Karenina would never have put you under a bureau just because you happened to be as thick as Montaigne.†   (source)
  • You have read Anna Karenina at least ten times, but I'd wager you still cry when she throws herself under the train."†   (source)
  • After a few minutes of consideration, he approached the little bookcase and carefully placed the thimble on top of Anna Karenina; then he took a seat.†   (source)
  • Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (1877†   (source)
  • That is, three changes of clothing, a toothbrush and toothpaste, Anna Karenina, Mishka's project, and, finally, the bottle of Chateauneuf-du-Pape that he intended to drink on the fourteenth of June 1963—ten years to the day after his old friend's death.†   (source)
  • It can't be Anna Karenina, said Tomas.†   (source)
  • It took two trips to get everything—she didn't have the energy to carry it all at once—and then she realized she'd left behind her copy of Anna Karenina.†   (source)
  • Afterward, they settled in the living room, and sensing she wasn't in the mood to talk, her dad read his Bible while she read Anna Karenina, a book her mom had sworn she would love.†   (source)
  • Once a year she read Anna Karenina and Eugene Onegin.†   (source)
  • The great Anna Karenina, for instance, forced Vronsky into a certain position by the causeless jealousy of a maniac—yet that position was the only real solution to their problem, and it was the inevitable solution.†   (source)
  • Not being a historian, one might go even further and say that women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time—Clytemnestra, Antigone, Cleopatra, Lady Macbeth, Phedre, Cressida, Rosalind, Desdemona, the Duchess of Malfi, among the dramatists; then among the prose writers: Millamant, Clarissa, Becky Sharp, Anna Karenina, Emma Bovary, Madame de Guermantes—the names flock to mind, nor do they recall women 'lacking in personality and character.'†   (source)
  • Forty years later Shakespeare is still there completely unaffected, and of the attempt to demolish him nothing remains except the yellowing pages of a pamphlet which hardly anyone has read, and which would be forgotten altogether if Tolstoy had not also been the author of WAR AND PEACE and ANNA KARENINA.†   (source)
  • With these fateful words, Count Leo Tolstoy opened the novel of the spiritual dismemberment of his modern heroine, Anna Karenina.†   (source)
  • "Vronsky," said Mrs. Ramsay; "Oh, ANNA KARENINA," but that did not take them very far; books were not in their line.†   (source)
  • Even if I had to admit that many lovers were adulterers, such as Paolo and Francesca or Anna Karenina, Grandma Lausch's favorite.†   (source)
  • She couldn't have been so sold on Anna Karenina for nothing, or another favorite of hers I ought to mention, Manon Lescaut, and when she was feeling right she bragged about her waist and hips, so, since she never gave up any glory or influence that I know of, I can see it wasn't only from settled habit that she went into her bedroom to lace on her corset and wind up her hair but to take the eye of a septuagenarian Vronsky or Des Grieux.†   (source)
  • It was the handwriting of Anna Karenina.†   (source)
  • "I've read 'Anna Karenina' and the 'Kreutzer Sonata' of course, but Tolstoi is mostly in the original Russian as far as I'm concerned."†   (source)
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy†   (source)
  • On meeting Anna Karenina, as he was Alexey Alexandrovitch's enemy in the government, he tried, like a shrewd man and a man of the world, to be particularly cordial with her, the wife of his enemy.†   (source)
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