Subject for August, 2016

PART TWO : Chapter 5

Subject: Anna Karenina

“This is rather indiscreet, but it’s so good it’s an awful temptation to tell the story,” said Vronsky, looking at her with his laughing eyes.  ...

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PART TWO : Chapter 4

Subject: Anna Karenina

The highest Petersburg society is essentially one:  in it everyone knows everyone else, everyone even visits everyone else.  But this great set has its subdivisions.&...

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PART TWO : Chapter 3

Subject: Anna Karenina

When she went into Kitty’s little room, a pretty, pink little room, full of knick-knacks in vieux saxe, as fresh, and pink, and white, and gay as Kitty herself had been tw...

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PART TWO : Chapter 2

Subject: Anna Karenina

Soon after the doctor, Dolly had arrived.  She knew that there was to be a consultation that day, and though she was only just up after her confinement (she had another ba...

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PART TWO : Chapter 1

Subject: Anna Karenina

At the end of the winter, in the Shtcherbatskys’ house, a consultation was being held, which was to pronounce on the state of Kitty’s health and the measures to be t...

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PART ONE : Chapter 34

Subject: Anna Karenina

When Vronsky went to Moscow from Petersburg, he had left his large set of rooms in Morskaia to his friend and favorite comrade Petritsky. Petritsky was a young lieutenant, not p...

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PART ONE : Chapter 33

Subject: Anna Karenina

Alexey Alexandrovitch came back from the meeting of the ministers at four o’clock, but as often happened, he had not time to come in to her.  He went into his study ...

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PART ONE : Chapter 32

Subject: Anna Karenina

The first person to meet Anna at home was her son.  He dashed down the stairs to her, in spite of the governess’s call, and with desperate joy shrieked:  ̶...

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PART ONE : Chapter 31

Subject: Anna Karenina

Vronsky had not even tried to sleep all that night.  He sat in his armchair, looking straight before him or scanning the people who got in and out.  If he had indeed...

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PART ONE : Chapter 30

Subject: Anna Karenina

The raging tempest rushed whistling between the wheels of the carriages, about the scaffolding, and round the corner of the station.  The carriages, posts, people, everyth...

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