Subject for August, 2016

PART ONE : Chapter 9

Subject: Anna Karenina

At four o’clock, conscious of his throbbing heart, Levin stepped out of a hired sledge at the Zoological Gardens, and turned along the path to the frozen mounds and the sk...

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PART ONE : Chapter 8

Subject: Anna Karenina

When the professor had gone, Sergey Ivanovitch turned to his brother. “Delighted that you’ve come.  For some time, is it?  How’s your farming gettin...

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PART ONE : Chapter 7

Subject: Anna Karenina

On arriving in Moscow by a morning train, Levin had put up at the house of his elder half-brother, Koznishev.  After changing his clothes he went down to his brother’...

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PART ONE : Chapter 6

Subject: Anna Karenina

When Oblonsky asked Levin what had brought him to town, Levin blushed, and was furious with himself for blushing, because he could not answer, “I have come to make your si...

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PART ONE : Chapter 5

Subject: Anna Karenina

Stepan Arkadyevitch had learned easily at school, thanks to his excellent abilities, but he had been idle and mischievous, and therefore was one of the lowest in his class. ...

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PART ONE : Chapter 4

Subject: Anna Karenina

Darya Alexandrovna, in a dressing jacket, and with her now scanty, once luxuriant and beautiful hair fastened up with hairpins on the nape of her neck, with a sunken, thin face ...

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PART ONE : Chapter 3

Subject: Anna Karenina

When he was dressed, Stepan Arkadyevitch sprinkled some scent on himself, pulled down his shirt-cuffs, distributed into his pockets his cigarettes, pocketbook, matches, and watc...

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PART ONE : Chapter 2

Subject: Anna Karenina

Stepan Arkadyevitch was a truthful man in his relations with himself.  He was incapable of deceiving himself and persuading himself that he repented of his conduct.  ...

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PART ONE : Chapter 1

Subject: Anna Karenina

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house.  The wife had discovered that the ...

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Chapter 61

Subject: Pride and Prejudice

Happy for all her maternal feelings was the day on which Mrs. Bennet got rid of her two most deserving daughters.  With what delighted pride she afterwards visited Mrs. Bin...

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