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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy, serialised 1875–1877. Two hundred and thirty-nine chapters across eight parts, each with a summary, a short analysis, and three plates — illustrated twice over, once as Wanderers realist oil and once as watercolour over an ink line.
The two lines
The novel runs two stories that barely meet. Tolstoy said the arch was joined so that one cannot see where the keystone is, and the join is invisible in a contents list because neither line announces itself. Each chapter below carries the line it sits on.
- 91 Anna
- 92 Levin
- 52 both
- 4 Oblonsky alone
- 12 on the railway
Illustration style
Part One 34 chapters
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Chapter 1 Oblonsky
Everything is upset at the Oblonskys'
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Chapter 2 Anna
Oblonsky cannot manage to repent
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Chapter 3 Oblonsky
Coffee, letters, and the children
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Chapter 4 Anna
Dolly refuses to be consoled
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Chapter 5 Both lines
Levin arrives at the Board
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Chapter 6 Levin
Why Levin came to Moscow
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Chapter 7 Levin
The professor and the soul
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Chapter 8 Levin
News of brother Nicholas
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Chapter 9 Levin
Skating at the Zoological Gardens
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Chapter 10 Levin
Oysters, and news of a rival
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Chapter 11 Both lines
Oblonsky names the rival
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Chapter 12 Both lines
Kitty's two suitors
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Chapter 13 Both lines
Levin proposes and is refused
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Chapter 14 Both lines
Vronsky arrives; the table-turning quarrel
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Chapter 15 Both lines
The Prince and Princess quarrel
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Chapter 16 Both lines
Vronsky has never known family life
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Chapter 17 Both lines
Waiting at the railway station
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Chapter 18 Anna
Anna arrives; a watchman is crushed
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Chapter 19 Anna
Anna hears Dolly out
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Chapter 20 Both lines
Kitty falls in love with Anna
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Chapter 21 Both lines
Vronsky calls but will not enter
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Chapter 22 Both lines
Anna in black velvet
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Chapter 23 Both lines
Kitty watches the mazurka
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Chapter 24 Both lines
Levin goes to brother Nicholas
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Chapter 25 Levin
The Locksmiths' Association, and vodka
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Chapter 26 Levin
Home to Pokrovsk, and Pava's calf
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Chapter 27 Levin
Levin alone in the old house
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Chapter 28 Both lines
Anna leaves Moscow a day early
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Chapter 29 Anna
The English novel on the train
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Chapter 30 Anna
Vronsky on the snowbound platform
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Chapter 31 Anna
Vronsky sees the husband's ears
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Chapter 32 Anna
Serezha, and Lydia Ivanovna's enemies
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Chapter 33 Anna
Karenin returns without haste or rest
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Chapter 34 Anna
Petritsky, the Baroness, and the set
Part Two 35 chapters
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Chapter 1 Levin
The specialist sounds Kitty
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Chapter 2 Both lines
The old Prince makes Kitty cry
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Chapter 3 Levin
The sisters in the pink snuggery
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Chapter 4 Anna
Anna's three Petersburg circles
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Chapter 5 Anna
The tale of Wenden's wife
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Chapter 6 Anna
Princess Myagkaya defends Anna
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Chapter 7 Both lines
Anna tells Vronsky it must stop
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Chapter 8 Anna
Karenin drafts a speech
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Chapter 9 Anna
The armour of lies
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Chapter 10 Anna
An impenetrable wall of merry perplexity
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Chapter 11 Anna
The murderer and the body
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Chapter 12 Levin
Levin waits out the spring
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Chapter 13 Levin
Levin sows a row himself
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Chapter 14 Levin
Oblonsky comes to shoot
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Chapter 15 Levin
Snipe at dusk, and Kitty's illness
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Chapter 16 Both lines
Ryabinin buys the forest
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Chapter 17 Both lines
Levin on aristocracy and treasury-bills
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Chapter 18 Anna
The regiment, the mother, the mare
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Chapter 19 Anna
Beefsteak and Yashvin before the race
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Chapter 20 Anna
Two letters under the mattress
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Chapter 21 Anna
Frou-Frou in her box
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Chapter 22 Anna
Anna tells him she is pregnant
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Chapter 23 Anna
The word she cannot say
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Chapter 24 Anna
Late to the paddock
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Chapter 25 Anna
Frou-Frou's back is broken
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Chapter 26 Anna
Karenin seals the compartment
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Chapter 27 Anna
Nightingales are not fed on fables
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Chapter 28 Anna
Karenin talks to smother thought
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Chapter 29 Anna
Anna confesses in the carriage
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Chapter 30 Levin
The watering-place, and Varenka
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Chapter 31 Levin
Nicholas shakes his stick
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Chapter 32 Levin
Varenka's history, and the Italian song
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Chapter 33 Both lines
Kitty's plans, and the Petrovs
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Chapter 34 Levin
The old Prince deflates Madame Stahl
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Chapter 35 Levin
Kitty turns on herself
Part Three 32 chapters
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Chapter 1 Levin
Two brothers and the peasants
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Chapter 2 Levin
The turning-point of summer
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Chapter 3 Levin
The Zemstvo argument by the river
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Chapter 4 Levin
Levin takes up a scythe
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Chapter 5 Levin
The old man's kvas
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Chapter 6 Levin
Arbeitskur, and a letter from Oblonsky
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Chapter 7 Oblonsky
Dolly's household at Ergushovo
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Chapter 8 Oblonsky
Taking six children to Communion
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Chapter 9 Levin
Levin arrives among the children
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Chapter 10 Both lines
Dolly puts Kitty's case
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Chapter 11 Levin
Eleven stacks, or thirty-two loads
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Chapter 12 Levin
Levin sees Kitty in the coach
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Chapter 13 Anna
Karenin considers the duel
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Chapter 14 Anna
The golden bridge, written in French
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Chapter 15 Anna
Anna asks to keep her son
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Chapter 16 Anna
The letter, and the packet of notes
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Chapter 17 Anna
A note left with Betsy
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Chapter 18 Anna
Sappho Stolz and Lisa Merkalova
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Chapter 19 Anna
Vronsky does his accounts
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Chapter 20 Anna
Serpukhovskoy's offer and warning
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Chapter 21 Anna
A load strapped to the back
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Chapter 22 Anna
Anna and Vronsky in Vrede's garden
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Chapter 23 Anna
Karenin sets his one condition
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Chapter 24 Levin
The leak Levin would not look for
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Chapter 25 Levin
The prosperous peasant's yard
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Chapter 26 Levin
Sviyazhsky, the riddle
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Chapter 27 Levin
The landowners argue about Emancipation
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Chapter 28 Levin
The hens, and the schools
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Chapter 29 Levin
Three partnerships on the land
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Chapter 30 Levin
The book, and the bloodless revolution
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Chapter 31 Levin
Nicholas arrives at Pokrovsk
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Chapter 32 Levin
The brothers quarrel and part
Part Four 23 chapters
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Chapter 1 Anna
The Prince, and a look in the mirror
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Chapter 2 Anna
The dream of the peasant
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Chapter 3 Anna
The demon, and the child quickens
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Chapter 4 Anna
Karenin takes the letter-case
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Chapter 5 Anna
The lawyer catches moths
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Chapter 6 Anna
Stremov undoes the August victory
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Chapter 7 Both lines
Oblonsky plans his dinner
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Chapter 8 Anna
Oblonsky begs Karenin to wait
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Chapter 9 Both lines
Levin and Kitty meet again
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Chapter 10 Both lines
Classics, nihilism, and women's rights
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Chapter 11 Levin
The two who hear nothing
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Chapter 12 Anna
Karenin says he hates her
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Chapter 13 Levin
The initial letters in chalk
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Chapter 14 Levin
Fourteen hours until morning
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Chapter 15 Levin
Loaves in the baker's window
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Chapter 16 Levin
The diary, and the confessions
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Chapter 17 Anna
Two telegrams, and a forgiveness
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Chapter 18 Anna
Vronsky puts the revolver to his chest
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Chapter 19 Anna
Betsy on the carpet outside
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Chapter 20 Anna
Why did I not die?
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Chapter 21 Anna
Oblonsky arrives with a proposal
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Chapter 22 Anna
Karenin gives up his son
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Chapter 23 Anna
Anna refuses the divorce
Part Five 33 chapters
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Chapter 1 Levin
Confession before the wedding
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Chapter 2 Both lines
The bachelors' dinner, and a doubt
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Chapter 3 Levin
The bridegroom has no shirt
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Chapter 4 Levin
The rings and the candles
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Chapter 5 Both lines
What the guests are saying
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Chapter 6 Levin
Kiss your wife
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Chapter 7 Anna
The palazzo, and Golenishchev
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Chapter 8 Anna
Unpardonably happy, and bored
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Chapter 9 Anna
News of the painter Mikhaylov
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Chapter 10 Anna
The grease spot on the sketch
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Chapter 11 Anna
Pilate's Admonition, seen by strangers
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Chapter 12 Anna
The two boys angling
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Chapter 13 Anna
Two portraits of the same woman
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Chapter 14 Levin
The boat seen from the bank
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Chapter 15 Levin
The nape of his red neck
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Chapter 16 Levin
Mary Nikolavna's second letter
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Chapter 17 Levin
The hotel, and the hand on the blanket
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Chapter 18 Levin
Kitty makes the sickroom habitable
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Chapter 19 Levin
Revealed unto babes
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Chapter 20 Levin
Death
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Chapter 21 Anna
Karenin alone in the house
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Chapter 22 Anna
Lydia Ivanovna forces the door
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Chapter 23 Anna
The Countess in love again
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Chapter 24 Anna
The Birthday Reception
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Chapter 25 Anna
The letter refusing Anna her son
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Chapter 26 Anna
Serezha and the hall-porter
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Chapter 27 Anna
Enoch, who did not die
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Chapter 28 Anna
Vronsky tests Petersburg Society
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Chapter 29 Anna
Anna rings her own door
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Chapter 30 Anna
Ten minutes in the nursery
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Chapter 31 Anna
The photographs on the table
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Chapter 32 Anna
Anna insists on the opera
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Chapter 33 Anna
The Kartasovs leave their box
Part Six 32 chapters
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Chapter 1 Levin
The Shcherbatsky element at Pokrovsk
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Chapter 2 Both lines
Jam on the balcony
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Chapter 3 Levin
Telling off the daisy petals
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Chapter 4 Levin
Koznyshev makes up his mind
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Chapter 5 Levin
The white boletus and the birch
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Chapter 6 Levin
Veslovsky arrives in a Scotch bonnet
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Chapter 7 Both lines
Levin's jealousy at supper
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Chapter 8 Levin
Setting out for the marshes
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Chapter 9 Levin
The trap driven into the bog
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Chapter 10 Levin
Levin shoots badly all day
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Chapter 11 Levin
Justice in the negative sense
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Chapter 12 Levin
Laska at dawn
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Chapter 13 Levin
Nineteen birds, and nothing to eat
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Chapter 14 Both lines
Something impure by the samovar
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Chapter 15 Levin
Veslovsky is sent to the station
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Chapter 16 Both lines
Dolly thinks in the carriage
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Chapter 17 Both lines
The riding party on the road
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Chapter 18 Anna
Anna says she is happy
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Chapter 19 Both lines
The nursery and the little court
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Chapter 20 Both lines
Vronsky shows off the hospital
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Chapter 21 Anna
Vronsky asks Dolly for help
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Chapter 22 Both lines
Dinner, and a quarrel underneath
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Chapter 23 Both lines
Anna will have no more children
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Chapter 24 Both lines
Morphia, and two beings she loves
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Chapter 25 Anna
Vronsky leaves without explaining
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Chapter 26 Levin
The eighty-rouble uniform
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Chapter 27 Levin
O sancta simplicitas
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Chapter 28 Levin
The vote on Flerov, and Snetkov's tears
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Chapter 29 Both lines
We guard the fire
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Chapter 30 Both lines
Levin votes on the wrong side
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Chapter 31 Both lines
Dinner at Vronsky's, and a letter
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Chapter 32 Anna
Anna agrees to ask for the divorce
Part Seven 31 chapters
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Chapter 1 Both lines
Waiting in Moscow
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Chapter 2 Levin
Money going like a drunkard's glasses
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Chapter 3 Levin
Metrov, and the jubilee meeting
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Chapter 4 Levin
Lvov on bringing up children
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Chapter 5 Levin
King Lear on the Heath
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Chapter 6 Levin
The call on the Countess Bol
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Chapter 7 Both lines
Levin at the club
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Chapter 8 Both lines
The Temple of Idleness
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Chapter 9 Both lines
The portrait behind the screen
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Chapter 10 Both lines
Anna talks to Levin
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Chapter 11 Both lines
Kitty weeps until three
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Chapter 12 Both lines
The weapon she must not use twice
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Chapter 13 Levin
Kitty's labour begins
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Chapter 14 Levin
Waiting on the doctor
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Chapter 15 Levin
Twenty-two hours, and a new voice
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Chapter 16 Levin
Levin looks for paternal feeling
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Chapter 17 Anna
Oblonsky goes after a soft post
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Chapter 18 Anna
Oblonsky puts Anna's case
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Chapter 19 Anna
Serezha, and the game of railways
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Chapter 20 Anna
Petersburg makes Oblonsky younger
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Chapter 21 Anna
Under the Wing, read aloud
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Chapter 22 Anna
Let the questioner go out
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Chapter 23 Anna
The quarrel traced backwards
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Chapter 24 Anna
Respect in the empty place
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Chapter 25 Anna
The telegram, and the coffee cup
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Chapter 26 Anna
The shadow on the cornice
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Chapter 27 Anna
The face in the mirror
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Chapter 28 Both lines
The drive to Dolly's
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Chapter 29 Both lines
Dirty ice-creams, and a telegram
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Chapter 30 Both lines
The zest is gone
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Chapter 31 Anna
The little red handbag
Part Eight 19 chapters
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Chapter 1 Levin
Koznyshev's book is not reviewed
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Chapter 2 Both lines
Seeing the Volunteers off
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Chapter 3 Levin
Katavasov talks to the Volunteers
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Chapter 4 Both lines
The Countess tells the story
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Chapter 5 Both lines
Vronsky's toothache
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Chapter 6 Levin
Arriving dusty at Pokrovsk
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Chapter 7 Levin
Kitty on her husband's unbelief
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Chapter 8 Levin
A muslin garment in the frost
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Chapter 9 Levin
The philosophers, and the hidden cord
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Chapter 10 Levin
Living without knowing why
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Chapter 11 Levin
Theodore speaks of Daddy Plato
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Chapter 12 Levin
Levin lies down in the wood
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Chapter 13 Levin
The children and the raspberries
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Chapter 14 Levin
Back among the beehives
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Chapter 15 Both lines
The Slavonic question over honey
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Chapter 16 Levin
Levin is beaten and unconvinced
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Chapter 17 Levin
The oak falls in the storm
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Chapter 18 Levin
Mitya knows his own people
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Chapter 19 Levin
A firm blue vault