Subject for August, 2016
PART FIVE : Chapter 5
Subject: Anna Karenina
In the church there was all Moscow, all the friends and relations; and during the ceremony of plighting troth, in the brilliantly lighted church, there was an incessant flow o...
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PART FIVE : Chapter 4
Subject: Anna Karenina
“They’ve come!” “Here he is!” “Which one?” “Rather young, eh?” “Why, my dear soul, she looks more dead than alive!...
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PART FIVE : Chapter 3
Subject: Anna Karenina
A crowd of people, principally women, was thronging round the church lighted up for the wedding. Those who had not succeeded in getting into the main entrance were crowdi...
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PART FIVE : Chapter 2
Subject: Anna Karenina
On the day of the wedding, according to the Russian custom (the princess and Darya Alexandrovna insisted on strictly keeping all the customs), Levin did not see his betrothed, a...
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PART FIVE : Chapter 1
Subject: Anna Karenina
Princess Shtcherbatskaya considered that it was out of the question for the wedding to take place before Lent, just five weeks off, since not half the trousseau could possibly b...
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PART FOUR : Chapter 23
Subject: Anna Karenina
Vronsky’s wound had been a dangerous one, though it did not touch the heart, and for several days he had lain between life and death. The first time he was able to ...
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PART FOUR : Chapter 22
Subject: Anna Karenina
Stepan Arkadyevitch, with the same somewhat solemn expression with which he used to take his presidential chair at his board, walked into Alexey Alexandrovitch’s room....
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PART FOUR : Chapter 21
Subject: Anna Karenina
Before Betsy had time to walk out of the drawing-room, she was met in the doorway by Stepan Arkadyevitch, who had just come from Yeliseev’s, where a consignment of fresh o...
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PART FOUR : Chapter 20
Subject: Anna Karenina
Alexey Alexandrovitch took leave of Betsy in the drawing room, and went to his wife. She was lying down, but hearing his steps she sat up hastily in her former attitude, ...
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PART FOUR : Chapter 19
Subject: Anna Karenina
The mistake made by Alexey Alexandrovitch in that, when preparing for seeing his wife, he had overlooked the possibility that her repentance might be sincere, and he might forgi...
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