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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Most enterprises fail — the so-called Anna Karenina principle.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
"We're not talking about Playboy magazine, you know, we're talking about Anna Karenina and War and Peace," Ms Hayes said.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 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
I was in high school when I first read Anna Karenina and encountered the most famous opening line in world literature.
From Slate ● Apr. 4, 2020
For much of the journey, the teenager has been reading a paperback copy of Anna Karenina for a class in Russian literature.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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