Anna Karenina

[ an-uh kuh-ren-uh-nuh; Russian ah-nuh kuh-rye-nyi-nuh ]

noun

1. a novel (1875–76) by Leo Tolstoy.

Anna Karenina

1. (1873–1876) A novel by Leo Tolstoy ; the title character enters a tragic adulterous affair and commits suicide by throwing herself under a train.

Notes

Anna Karenina begins with the famous sentence “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

Example Sentences

Then, it was erroneously reported that Anna Karenina director Joe Wright had won the job (a very strange choice).

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You can read Anna Karenina in two days, or you can read it over a year.

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This might have inspired Wright to enclose part of his Anna Karenina inside a theater, as if a Chekhov play is being mounted.

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And Keira Knightley brought her own jewels to the Anna Karenina set.

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In the novels and plays of that time a coat was a very important part of a wordbook, for Anna Karenina and Three Sisters.

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Turgenev was surely a greater artist than Tolstoi, but Anna Karenina is a veritable piece of life.

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After your departure, he writes, I read Anna Karenina once more.

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While he was writing "Anna Karenina," my father set great store by his opinion and valued his critical instinct very highly.

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And the same necessity we see in “Anna Karenina;” here again Tolstoy's materials are not persons but groups.

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And I say: what are all his vapourings and fatidical croonings on the tripod of pseudo-prophecy as compared to Anna Karenina?

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