Subject for August, 2016

PART ONE : Chapter 19

Subject: Anna Karenina

When Anna went into the room, Dolly was sitting in the little drawing-room with a white-headed fat little boy, already like his father, giving him a lesson in French reading....

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PART ONE : Chapter 18

Subject: Anna Karenina

Vronsky followed the guard to the carriage, and at the door of the compartment he stopped short to make room for a lady who was getting out. With the insight of a man of the wor...

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PART ONE : Chapter 17

Subject: Anna Karenina

Next day at eleven o’clock in the morning Vronsky drove to the station of the Petersburg railway to meet his mother, and the first person he came across on the great fligh...

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PART ONE : Chapter 16

Subject: Anna Karenina

Vronsky had never had a real home life.  His mother had been in her youth a brilliant society woman, who had had during her married life, and still more afterwards, many l...

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PART ONE : Chapter 15

Subject: Anna Karenina

At the end of the evening Kitty told her mother of her conversation with Levin, and in spite of all the pity she felt for Levin, she was glad at the thought that she had receive...

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PART ONE : Chapter 14

Subject: Anna Karenina

But at that very moment the princess came in.  There was a look of horror on her face when she saw them alone, and their disturbed faces.  Levin bowed to her, and sa...

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PART ONE : Chapter 13

Subject: Anna Karenina

After dinner, and till the beginning of the evening, Kitty was feeling a sensation akin to the sensation of a young man before a battle.  Her heart throbbed violently, and...

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PART ONE : Chapter 12

Subject: Anna Karenina

The young Princess Kitty Shtcherbatskaya was eighteen.  It was the first winter that she had been out in the world.  Her success in society had been greater than tha...

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PART ONE : Chapter 11

Subject: Anna Karenina

Levin emptied his glass, and they were silent for a while. “There’s one other thing I ought to tell you.  Do you know Vronsky?” Stepan Arkadyevitch asked...

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PART ONE : Chapter 10

Subject: Anna Karenina

When Levin went into the restaurant with Oblonsky, he could not help noticing a certain peculiarity of expression, as it were, a restrained radiance, about the face and whole fi...

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