Subject for August, 2016
PART FIVE : Chapter 15
Subject: Anna Karenina
They had just come back from Moscow, and were glad to be alone. He was sitting at the writing table in his study, writing. She, wearing the dark lilac dress she had...
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PART FIVE : Chapter 14
Subject: Anna Karenina
Levin had been married three months. He was happy, but not at all in the way he had expected to be. At every step he found his former dreams disappointed, and new,...
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PART FIVE : Chapter 13
Subject: Anna Karenina
Mihailov sold Vronsky his picture, and agreed to paint a portrait of Anna. On the day fixed he came and began the work. From the fifth sitting the portrait impressed ever...
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PART FIVE : Chapter 12
Subject: Anna Karenina
Anna and Vronsky had long been exchanging glances, regretting their friend’s flow of cleverness. At last Vronsky, without waiting for the artist, walked away to ano...
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PART FIVE : Chapter 11
Subject: Anna Karenina
On entering the studio, Mihailov once more scanned his visitors and noted down in his imagination Vronsky’s expression too, and especially his jaws. Although his ar...
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PART FIVE : Chapter 10
Subject: Anna Karenina
The artist Mihailov was, as always, at work when the cards of Count Vronsky and Golenishtchev were brought to him. In the morning he had been working in his studio at his...
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PART FIVE : Chapter 9
Subject: Anna Karenina
The old neglected palazzo, with its lofty carved ceilings and frescoes on the walls, with its floors of mosaic, with its heavy yellow stuff curtains on the windows, with its vas...
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PART FIVE : Chapter 8
Subject: Anna Karenina
Anna, in that first period of her emancipation and rapid return to health, felt herself unpardonably happy and full of the joy of life. The thought of her husband’...
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PART FIVE : Chapter 7
Subject: Anna Karenina
Vronsky and Anna had been traveling for three months together in Europe. They had visited Venice, Rome, and Naples, and had just arrived at a small Italian town where the...
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PART FIVE : Chapter 6
Subject: Anna Karenina
When the ceremony of plighting troth was over, the beadle spread before the lectern in the middle of the church a piece of pink silken stuff, the choir sang a complicated and el...
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