Anna Karenina

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

noun

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

[ (an-uh kuh-ren-uh-nuh) ]

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

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

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