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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.


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Notes

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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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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