The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Volume 16: Anna KareninaP.F. Collier & Son, 1917 |
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Common terms and phrases
Agafea Mihalovna Alexey Alexandrovitch Anna Arkadyevna Anna Karenin Anna's answered asked bailiff began Betsy better brother carriage CHAPTER conversation Darya Alexandrovna delight dinner Dmitritch doctor Dolly door drawing-room dress everything eyes face feeling felt forgive girl glad glanced hand happiness head heard heart horses husband Karenin kissed Kitty Kitty's knew Konstantin Levin labour lady laughing LEO TOLSTOY listened live Madame Stahl married Matvey mazurka Moscow mother mowing never Nikolay Oblonsky once peasants Pestsov Peterhof Petersburg Petritsky position prince princess question Russian scythe seemed Sergey Ivanovitch Serpuhovskoy Seryozha Shtcherbatsky simply sitting smile speak spite Stepan Arkadyevitch Stiva suddenly Sviazhsky talk Tatar tears tell there's thing thought tion to-day told Tolstoy Tolstoy's took trying turned understand Varenka vitch voice Vronsky Vronsky's walked what's wife woman words Yashvin Yasnaya Polyana young
Popular passages
Page xiv - But the truth is we are not to take Anna Karenine as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life. A piece of life it is. The author has not invented and combined it, he has seen it; it has all happened before his inward eye, and it was in this wise that it happened.
Page xix - Anna Karenina: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Page xix - If there was a reason for his preferring liberal to conservative views, which were held also by many of his circle, it arose not from his considering liberalism more rational, but from its being in closer accord with his manner of life. . . . And so liberalism had become a habit of Stepan Arkadyevitch's, and he liked his newspaper, as he did his cigar after dinner, for the slight fog it diffused in his brain.
Page xviii - ... artist's personality should be in a portrait; but he has a method which not only seems without artifice, but is so. I can get at the manner of most writers, and tell what it is, but I should be baffled to tell what Tolstoy's manner is; perhaps he has no manner. This appears to me true of his novels, which, with their vast variety of character and incident, are alike in their single endeavor to get the persons living before you, both in their action and in the peculiarly dramatic interpretation...
Page xiii - Levine's brother Serge Ivanitch, their inclination for one another and its failure to come to anything, contribute to the development of either the character or the fortunes of Kitty and Levine? What does the incident of Levine's long delay in getting to church to be married, a delay which as we read of it seems to have significance, really import? It turns out to import absolutely nothing, and to be introduced solely to give the author the pleasure of telling us that all Levine's shirts had been...
Page 169 - Alexandrovitch was standing face to face with life, with the possibility of his wife's loving some one other than himself, and this seemed to him very irrational and incomprehensible because it was life itself. All his life Alexey Alexandrovitch had lived and worked in official spheres, having to do with the reflection of life. And every time he stumbled against life itself he had shrunk away from it.
Page xix - ... changed of themselves within him. Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves...
Page 90 - Vronsky' s face, always so firm and independent, she saw that look that had struck her, of bewilderment and humble submissiveness, like the expression of an intelligent dog when it has done wrong. Anna smiled, and her smile was reflected by him. She grew thoughtful, and he became serious. Some supernatural force drew Kitty's eyes to Anna's face. She was fascinating in her simple black dress, fascinating were her round arms with their bracelets, fascinating was her firm neck with its thread of pearls,...
Page xiii - Wronsky to the affairs of Kitty and Levine. People appear in connection with these two main actions whose appearance and proceedings do not in the least contribute to develop them ; incidents are multiplied which we expect are to lead to something important, but which do not.
Page 245 - ... broken her back. But that he only knew much later. At that moment he knew only that Mahotin had flown swiftly by, while he stood staggering alone on the muddy, motionless ground, and Frou-Frou lay gasping before him, bending her head back and gazing at him with her exquisite eye. Still unable to realize what had happened, Vronsky tugged at his mare's reins. Again she struggled all over like a fish, and her shoulders setting the saddle heaving, she rose on her front legs, but unable to lift her...