Anna Karenina

01 Chapter 1 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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02 Chapter 2 Stepan Arkadyevitch was a truthful man in his relations with himself. He was incapable of

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03 Chapter 3 When he was dressed, Stepan Arkadyevitch sprinkled some scent on himself, pulled down his

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04 Chapter 4 Darya Alexandrovna, in a dressing jacket, and with her now scanty, once luxuriant and beautiful

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05 Chapter 5 Stepan Arkadyevitch had learned easily at school, thanks to his excellent abilities, but he had been

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06 Chapter 6 When Oblonsky asked Levin what had brought him to town, Levin blushed, and was furious with

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07 Chapter 7 On arriving in Moscow by a morning train, Levin had put up at the house of his elder half-brother,

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08 Chapter 8 When the professor had gone, Sergey Ivanovitch turned to his brother.

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09 Chapter 9 At four o'clock, conscious of his throbbing heart, Levin stepped out of a hired sledge at the

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10 Chapter 10 When Levin went into the restaurant with Oblonsky, he could not help noticing a certain

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11 Chapter 11 Levin emptied his glass, and they were silent for a while.

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12 Chapter 12 The young Princess Kitty Shtcherbatskaya was eighteen. It was the first winter that she had been

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13 Chapter 13 After dinner, and till the beginning of the evening, Kitty was feeling a sensation akin to the

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15 Chapter 15 At the end of the evening Kitty told her mother of her conversation with Levin, and in spite of all

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16 Chapter 16 Vronsky had never had a real home life. His mother had been in her youth a brilliant society

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17 Chapter 17 Next day at eleven o'clock in the morning Vronsky drove to the station of the Petersburg railway

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18 Chapter 18 Vronsky followed the guard to the carriage, and at the door of the compartment he stopped short

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19 Chapter 19 When Anna went into the room, Dolly was sitting in the little drawing-room with a white-headed

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20 Chapter 20 The whole of that day Anna spent at home, that's to say at the Oblonskys', and received no one,

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21 Chapter 21 Dolly came out of her room to the tea of the grown-up people. Stepan Arkadyevitch did not come

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22 Chapter 22 The ball was only just beginning as Kitty and her mother walked up the great staircase, flooded

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23 Chapter 23 Vronsky and Kitty waltzed several times round the room. After the first waltz Kitty went to her

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25 Chapter 25 "So you see," pursued Nikolay Levin, painfully wrinkling his forehead and twitching.

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26 Chapter 26 In the morning Konstantin Levin left Moscow, and towards evening he reached home. On the

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27 Chapter 27 The house was big and old-fashioned, and Levin, though he lived alone, had the whole house

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28 Chapter 28 After the ball, early next morning, Anna Arkadyevna sent her husband a telegram that she was

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29 Chapter 29 "Come, it's all over, and thank God!" was the first thought that came to Anna Arkadyevna, when

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30 Chapter 30 The raging tempest rushed whistling between the wheels of the carriages, about the scaffolding,

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31 Chapter 31 Vronsky had not even tried to sleep all that night. He sat in his armchair, looking straight before

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32 Chapter 32 The first person to meet Anna at home was her son. He dashed down the stairs to her, in spite of

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33 Chapter 33 Alexey Alexandrovitch came back from the meeting of the ministers at four o'clock, but as often

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34 Chapter 34 When Vronsky went to Moscow from Petersburg, he had left his large set of rooms in Morskaia to

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35 Chapter 1 At the end of the winter, in the Shtcherbatskys' house, a consultation was being held, which was to

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36 Chapter 2 Soon after the doctor, Dolly had arrived. She knew that there was to be a consultation that day,

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37 Chapter 3 When she went into Kitty's little room, a pretty, pink little room, full of knick-knacks in vieux

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38 Chapter 4 The highest Petersburg society is essentially one: in it everyone knows everyone else, everyone

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40 Chapter 6 Princess Betsy drove home from the theater, without waiting for the end of the last act. She had

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41 Chapter 7 Steps were heard at the door, and Princess Betsy, knowing it was Madame Karenina, glanced at

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42 Chapter 8 Alexey Alexandrovitch had seen nothing striking or improper in the fact that his wife was sitting

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43 Chapter 9 Anna came in with hanging head, playing with the tassels of her hood. Her face was brilliant and

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44 Chapter 10 From that time a new life began for Alexey Alexandrovitch and for his wife. Nothing special

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45 Chapter 11 That which for Vronsky had been almost a whole year the one absorbing desire of his life,

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46 Chapter 12 In the early days after his return from Moscow, whenever Levin shuddered and grew red,

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47 Chapter 13 Levin put on his big boots, and, for the first time, a cloth jacket, instead of his fur cloak, and went

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49 Chapter 15 The place fixed on for the stand-shooting was not far above a stream in a little aspen copse. On

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50 Chapter 16 On the way home Levin asked all details of Kitty's illness and the Shtcherbatskys' plans, and

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51 Chapter 17 Stepan Arkadyevitch went upstairs with his pocket bulging with notes, which the merchant had

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52 Chapter 18 Although all Vronsky's inner life was absorbed in his passion, his external life unalterably and

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53 Chapter 19 On the day of the races at Krasnoe Selo, Vronsky had come earlier than usual to eat beefsteak in

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54 Chapter 20 Vronsky was staying in a roomy, clean, Finnish hut, divided into two by a partition. Petritsky

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55 Chapter 21 The temporary stable, a wooden shed, had been put up close to the race course, and there his mare

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56 Chapter 22 The rain did not last long, and by the time Vronsky arrived, his shaft-horse trotting at full speed

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57 Chapter 23 Vronsky had several times already, though not so resolutely as now, tried to bring her to consider

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58 Chapter 24 When Vronsky looked at his watch on the Karenins' balcony, he was so greatly agitated and lost in

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59 Chapter 25 There were seventeen officers in all riding in this race. The race course was a large three-mile ring

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60 Chapter 26 The external relations of Alexey Alexandrovitch and his wife had remained unchanged. The sole

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61 Chapter 27 Anna was upstairs, standing before the looking glass, and, with Annushka's assistance, pinning the

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62 Chapter 28 When Alexey Alexandrovitch reached the race-course, Anna was already sitting in the pavilion

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63 Chapter 29 Everyone was loudly expressing disapprobation, everyone was repeating a phrase some one had

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64 Chapter 30 In the little German watering-place to which the Shtcherbatskys had betaken themselves, as in all

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65 Chapter 31 It was a wet day; it had been raining all the morning, and the invalids, with their parasols, had

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66 Chapter 32 The particulars which the princess had learned in regard to Varenka's past and her relations with

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67 Chapter 33 Kitty made the acquaintance of Madame Stahl too, and this acquaintance, together with her

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68 Chapter 34 Before the end of the course of drinking the waters, Prince Shtcherbatsky, who had gone on from

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69 Chapter 35 The prince communicated his good humor to his own family and his friends, and even to the

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70 Chapter 1 Sergey Ivanovitch Koznishev wanted a rest from mental work, and instead of going abroad as he

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71 Chapter 2 Early in June it happened that Agafea Mihalovna, the old nurse and housekeeper, in carrying to

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72 Chapter 3 "Do you know I've been thinking about you," said Sergey Ivanovitch. "It's beyond everything

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73 Chapter 4 The personal matter that absorbed Levin during his conversation with his brother was this. Once in

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74 Chapter 5 After lunch Levin was not in the same place in the string of mowers as before, but stood between

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75 Chapter 6 Mashkin Upland was mown, the last row finished, the peasants had put on their coats and were

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76 Chapter 7 Stephan Arkadyevitch had gone to Petersburg to perform the most natural and essential official

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77 Chapter 8 Towards the end of May, when everything had been more or less satisfactorily arranged, she

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78 Chapter 9 On the drive home, as Darya Alexandrovna, with all her children round her, their heads still wet

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81 Chapter 12 The load was tied on. Ivan jumped down and took the quiet, sleek horse by the bridle. The young

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82 Chapter 13 None but those who were most intimate with Alexey Alexandrovitch knew that, while on the

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83 Chapter 14 As he neared Petersburg, Alexey Alexandrovitch not only adhered entirely to his decision, but was

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84 Chapter 15 Though Anna had obstinately and with exasperation contradicted Vronsky when he told her their

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85 Chapter 16 All the rooms of the summer villa were full of porters, gardeners, and footmen going to and fro

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86 Chapter 17 The croquet party to which the Princess Tverskaya had invited Anna was to consist of two ladies

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87 Chapter 18 They heard the sound of steps and a man's voice, then a woman's voice and laughter, and

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88 Chapter 19 In spite of Vronsky's apparently frivolous life in society, he was a man who hated irregularity. In

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90 Chapter 21 "We've come to fetch you. Your lessive lasted a good time today," said Petritsky. "Well, is it

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91 Chapter 22 It was six o'clock already, and so, in order to be there quickly, and at the same time not to drive

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92 Chapter 23 On Monday there was the usual sitting of the Commission of the 2nd of June. Alexey

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93 Chapter 24 The night spent by Levin on the haycock did not pass without result for him. The way in which he

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94 Chapter 25 In the Surovsky district there was no railway nor service of post horses, and Levin drove there

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95 Chapter 26 Sviazhsky was the marshal of his district. He was five years older than Levin, and had long been

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96 Chapter 27 "If I'd only the heart to throw up what's been set going...such a lot of trouble wasted...I'd turn my

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97 Chapter 28 Levin was insufferably bored that evening with the ladies; he was stirred as he had never been

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98 Chapter 29 The carrying out of Levin's plan presented many difficulties; but he struggled on, doing his

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99 Chapter 30 At the end of September the timber had been carted for building the cattleyard on the land that had

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100 Chapter 31 Running halfway down the staircase, Levin caught a sound he knew, a familiar cough in the hall.

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101 Chapter 32 Levin had long before made the observation that when one is uncomfortable with people from

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102 Chapter 1 The Karenins, husband and wife, continued living in the same house, met every day, but were

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103 Chapter 2 When he got home, Vronsky found there a note from Anna. She wrote, "I am ill and unhappy. I

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104 Chapter 3 "You met him?" she asked, when they had sat down at the table in the lamplight. "You're

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105 Chapter 4 Alexey Alexandrovitch, after meeting Vronsky on his own steps, drove, as he had intended, to the

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106 Chapter 5 The waiting-room of the celebrated Petersburg lawyer was full when Alexey Alexandrovitch

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107 Chapter 6 Alexey Alexandrovitch had gained a brilliant victory at the sitting of the Commission of the 17th

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108 Chapter 7 The next day was Sunday. Stepan Arkadyevitch went to the Grand Theater to a rehearsal of the

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109 Chapter 8 Alexey Alexandrovitch, on coming back from church service, had spent the whole morning

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110 Chapter 9 It was past five, and several guests had already arrived, before the host himself got home. He went

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111 Chapter 10 Pestsov liked thrashing an argument out to the end, and was not satisfied with Sergey Ivanovitch's

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112 Chapter 11 Everyone took part in the conversation except Kitty and Levin. At first, when they were talking of

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113 Chapter 12 Connected with the conversation that had sprung up on the rights of women there were certain

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114 Chapter 13 When they rose from table, Levin would have liked to follow Kitty into the drawing room; but he

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115 Chapter 14 When Kitty had gone and Levin was left alone, he felt such uneasiness without her and such an

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116 Chapter 15 The streets were still empty. Levin went to the house of the Shtcherbatskys. The visitors' doors

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117 Chapter 16 The princess sat in her armchair, silent and smiling; the prince sat down beside her. Kitty stood by

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118 Chapter 17 Unconsciously going over in his memory the conversations that had taken place during and after

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120 Chapter 19 The mistake made by Alexey Alexandrovitch in that, when preparing for seeing his wife, he had

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121 Chapter 20 Alexey Alexandrovitch took leave of Betsy in the drawing room, and went to his wife. She was

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122 Chapter 21 Before Betsy had time to walk out of the drawing-room, she was met in the doorway by Stepan

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123 Chapter 22 Stepan Arkadyevitch, with the same somewhat solemn expression with which he used to take his

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124 Chapter 23 Vronsky's wound had been a dangerous one, though it did not touch the heart, and for several days

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125 Chapter 1 Princess Shtcherbatskaya considered that it was out of the question for the wedding to take place

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126 Chapter 2 On the day of the wedding, according to the Russian custom (the princess and Darya

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127 Chapter 3 A crowd of people, principally women, was thronging round the church lighted up for the

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128 Chapter 4 "They've come!" "Here he is!" "Which one?" "Rather young, eh?" "Why, my dear soul, she looks

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130 Chapter 6 When the ceremony of plighting troth was over, the beadle spread before the lectern in the middle

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131 Chapter 7 Vronsky and Anna had been traveling for three months together in Europe. They had visited

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132 Chapter 8 Anna, in that first period of her emancipation and rapid return to health, felt herself unpardonably

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133 Chapter 9 The old neglected palazzo, with its lofty carved ceilings and frescoes on the walls, with its floors

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134 Chapter 10 The artist Mihailov was, as always, at work when the cards of Count Vronsky and Golenishtchev

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135 Chapter 11 On entering the studio, Mihailov once more scanned his visitors and noted down in his

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136 Chapter 12 Anna and Vronsky had long been exchanging glances, regretting their friend's flow of cleverness.

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137 Chapter 13 Mihailov sold Vronsky his picture, and agreed to paint a portrait of Anna. On the day fixed he

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138 Chapter 14 Levin had been married three months. He was happy, but not at all in the way he had expected to

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140 Chapter 16 When Levin went upstairs, his wife was sitting near the new silver samovar behind the new tea

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141 Chapter 17 The hotel of the provincial town where Nikolay Levin was lying ill was one of those provincial

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142 Chapter 18 Levin could not look calmly at his brother; he could not himself be natural and calm in his

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143 Chapter 19 "Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes." So

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144 Chapter 20 The next day the sick man received the sacrament and extreme unction. During the ceremony

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145 Chapter 21 From the moment when Alexey Alexandrovitch understood from his interviews with Betsy and

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146 Chapter 22 Alexey Alexandrovitch had forgotten the Countess Lidia Ivanovna, but she had not forgotten him.

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147 Chapter 23 The Countess Lidia Ivanovna had, as a very young and sentimental girl, been married to a wealthy

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148 Chapter 24 The levee was drawing to a close. People met as they were going away, and gossiped of the latest

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149 Chapter 25 When Alexey Alexandrovitch came into the Countess Lidia Ivanovna's snug little boudoir,

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150 Chapter 26 "Well, Kapitonitch?" said Seryozha, coming back rosy and good- humored from his walk the day

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151 Chapter 27 After the lesson with the grammar teacher came his father's lesson. While waiting for his father,

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152 Chapter 28 On arriving in Petersburg, Vronsky and Anna stayed at one of the best hotels; Vronsky apart in a

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153 Chapter 29 One of Anna's objects in coming back to Russia had been to see her son. From the day she left

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154 Chapter 30 Meanwhile Vassily Lukitch had not at first understood who this lady was, and had learned from

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155 Chapter 31 As intensely as Anna had longed to see her son, and long as she had been thinking of it and

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157 Chapter 33 Vronsky for the first time experienced a feeling of anger against Anna, almost a hatred for her

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158 Chapter 1 Darya Alexandrovna spent the summer with her children at Pokrovskoe, at her sister Kitty Levin's.

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160 Chapter 3 Kitty was particularly glad of a chance of being alone with her husband, for she had noticed the

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161 Chapter 4 Varenka, with her white kerchief on her black hair, surrounded by the children, gaily and good-

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163 Chapter 6 During the time of the children's tea the grown-up people sat in the balcony and talked as though

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165 Chapter 8 Next day, before the ladies were up, the wagonette and a trap for the shooting party were at the

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166 Chapter 9 "Well, now what's our plan of campaign? Tell us all about it," said Stepan Arkadyevitch.

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167 Chapter 10 Vassenka drove the horses so smartly that they reached the marsh too early, while it was still hot.

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168 Chapter 11 When Levin and Stepan Arkadyevitch reached the peasant's hut where Levin always used to stay,

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169 Chapter 12 Waking up at earliest dawn, Levin tried to wake his companions. Vassenka, lying on his stomach,

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170 Chapter 13 The sportsman's saying, that if the first beast or the first bird is not missed, the day will be lucky,

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171 Chapter 14 Next day at ten o'clock Levin, who had already gone his rounds, knocked at the room where

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172 Chapter 15 After escorting his wife upstairs, Levin went to Dolly's part of the house. Darya Alexandrovna, for

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175 Chapter 18 Anna looked at Dolly's thin, care-worn face, with its wrinkles filled with dust from the road, and

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176 Chapter 19 Left alone, Darya Alexandrovna, with a good housewife's eye, scanned her room. All she had seen

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177 Chapter 20 "Here's Dolly for you, princess, you were so anxious to see her," said Anna, coming out with

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178 Chapter 21 "No, I think the princess is tired, and horses don't interest her," Vronsky said to Anna, who wanted

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179 Chapter 22 When Anna found Dolly at home before her, she looked intently in her eyes, as though

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180 Chapter 23 Dolly was wanting to go to bed when Anna came in to see her, attired for the night. In the course

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181 Chapter 24 "Then there is all the more reason for you to legalize your position, if possible," said Dolly.

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182 Chapter 25 Vronsky and Anna spent the whole summer and part of the winter in the country, living in just the

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183 Chapter 26 In September Levin moved to Moscow for Kitty's confinement. He had spent a whole month in

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184 Chapter 27 The sixth day was fixed for the election of the marshal of the province.

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186 Chapter 29 The narrow room, in which they were smoking and taking refresh~ ments, was full of noblemen.

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187 Chapter 30 Sviazhsky took Levin's arm, and went with him to his own friends. This time there was no

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188 Chapter 31 The newly elected marshal and many of the successful party dined that day with Vronsky.

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189 Chapter 32 Before Vronsky's departure for the elections, Anna had reflected that the scenes constantly

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190 Chapter 1 The Levins had been three months in Moscow. The date had long passed on which, according to

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191 Chapter 2 "Go, please, go then and call on the Bols," Kitty said to her husband, when he came in to see her

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192 Chapter 3 Levin had on this visit to town seen a great deal of his old friend at the university, Professor

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193 Chapter 4 Lvov, the husband of Natalia, Kitty's sister, had spent all his life in foreign capitals, where he had

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194 Chapter 5 At the concert in the afternoon two very interesting things were performed. One was a fantasia,

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195 Chapter 6 "Perhaps they're not at home?" said Levin, as he went into the hall of Countess Bola's house.

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196 Chapter 7 Levin reached the club just at the right time. Members and visitors were driving up as he arrived.

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197 Chapter 8 Getting up from the table, Levin walked with Gagin through the lofty room to the billiard room,

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198 Chapter 9 "Oblonsky's carriage!" the porter shouted in an angry bass. The carriage drove up and both got in.

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199 Chapter 10 She had risen to meet him, not concealing her pleasure at seeing him; and in the quiet ease with

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200 Chapter 11 "What a marvelous, sweet and unhappy woman!" he was thinking, as he stepped out into the

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201 Chapter 12 After taking leave of her guests, Anna did not sit down, but began walking up and down the room.

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202 Chapter 13 There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around

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203 Chapter 14 The doctor was not yet up, and the footman said that "he had been up late, and had given orders

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204 Chapter 15 He did not know whether it was late or early. The candles had all burned out. Dolly had just been

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205 Chapter 16 At ten o'clock the old prince, Sergey Ivanovitch, and Stepan Arkadyevitch were sitting at Levin's.

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206 Chapter 17 Stepan Arkadyevitch's affairs were in a very bad way.

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207 Chapter 18 "Now there is something I want to talk about, and you know what it is. About Anna," Stepan

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209 Chapter 20 Stepan Arkadyevitch, as usual, did not waste his time in Petersburg. In Petersburg, besides

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210 Chapter 21 After a capital dinner and a great deal of cognac drunk at Bartnyansky's, Stepan Arkadyevitch,

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211 Chapter 22 Stepan Arkadyevitch felt completely nonplussed by the strange talk which he was hearing for the

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213 Chapter 24 "Well, was it nice?" she asked, coming out to meet him with a penitent and meek expression.

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214 Chapter 25 Feeling that the reconciliation was complete, Anna set eagerly to to work in the morning preparing

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215 Chapter 26 Never before had a day been passed in quarrel. Today was the first time. And this was not a

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216 Chapter 27 "He has gone! It is over!" Anna said to herself, standing at the window; and in answer to this

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217 Chapter 28 It was bright and sunny. A fine rain had been falling all the morning, and now it had not long

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219 Chapter 30 "Here it is again! Again I understand it all!" Anna said to herself, as soon as the carriage had

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220 Chapter 31 A bell rang, some young men, ugly and impudent, and at the same time careful of the impression

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221 Chapter 1 Almost two months had passed. The hot summer was half over, but Sergey Ivanovitch was only

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222 Chapter 2 Sergey Ivanovitch and Katavasov had only just reached the station of the Kursk line, which was

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223 Chapter 3 Saying good-bye to the princess, Sergey Ivanovitch was joined by Katavasov; together they got

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225 Chapter 5 In the slanting evening shadows cast by the baggage piled up on the platform, Vronsky in his long

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226 Chapter 6 Sergey Ivanovitch had not telegraphed to his brother to send to meet him, as he did not know

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227 Chapter 7 Agafea Mihalovna went out on tiptoe; the nurse let down the blind, chased a fly out from under

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228 Chapter 8 Ever since, by his beloved brother's deathbed, Levin had first glanced into the questions of life and

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229 Chapter 9 These doubts fretted and harassed him, growing weaker or stronger from time to time, but never

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230 Chapter 10 When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the

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231 Chapter 11 The day on which Sergey Ivanovitch came to Pokrovskoe was one of Levin's most painful days. It

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232 Chapter 12 Levin strode along the highroad, absorbed not so much in his thoughts (he could not yet

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233 Chapter 13 And Levin remembered a scene he had lately witnessed between Dolly and her children. The

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234 Chapter 14 Levin looked before him and saw a herd of cattle, then he caught sight of his trap with Raven in

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236 Chapter 16 Sergey Ivanovitch, being practiced in argument, did not reply, but at once turned the conversation

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237 Chapter 17 The old prince and Sergey Ivanovitch got into the trap and drove off; the rest of the party hastened

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238 Chapter 18 During the whole of that day, in the extremely different conversations in which he took part, only

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239 Chapter 19 Going out of the nursery and being again alone, Levin went back at once to the thought, in which

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