Anna Karenina
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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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She was also known for her work on the big screen in films such as Anna Karenina, Saving Grace and Miss Potter.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Most enterprises fail — the so-called Anna Karenina principle.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
There are many older works that are worth reading, of course, and Shakespeare, Ulysses, Anna Karenina, Frankenstein, and Mrs Dalloway can all be found on Project Gutenberg.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2024
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” opens Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 2, 2023
It was while walking on some of the world’s noisiest, busiest streets, on Chowringhee and Gariahat Road, that he had read pages of The Brothers Karamazov, and Anna Karenina, and Fathers and Sons.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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