Anna Karenina, Volumes 1-2In 19th century Russia a woman in a respectable marriage to a doctor must grapple with her love for a dashing soldier. |
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Page 251 - Frou Frou was all saddled in her open box-stall. They started to lead her out. " I am not late, am I ? " "All right, all right" said the Englishman. " Don't get excited." Vronsky once more gave a quick glance at the excellent, favorable shape of his horse, as she stood trembling in every limb ; and, finding it hard to tear himself away from such a beautiful sight, he left her at the stable. He approached the benches at a most favorable moment for doing this without attracting observation.
Page 258 - Vronsky felt all these eyes fixed on him from every side ; but he saw only his horse's ears, the ground flying under him, and Gladiator's flanks, and white feet beating the ground in cadence, and always maintaining the same distance between them. Gladiator flew at the hurdle, gave a whisk of his well-cropped tail, and, without having touched the hurdle, vanished from Vronsky's eyes. " Bravo ! " cried a voice. At the same instant the planks of the hurdle flashed before his eyes, his horse leaped without...
Page viii - ... and the wretchedness of wasted and mistaken life, the hollowness of ambition, the cheerful emptiness of some hearts, the dull emptiness of others. It is a world, and you live in it while you read and long afterward, but at no step have you been betrayed, not because your guide has warned or exalted you, but because he has been true, and has shown you all things as they are.
Page viii - It has not only the very hue of life, but its movement, its advances, its strange pauses, its seeming reversions to former conditions, and its perpetual change, its apparent solations, its essential solidarity.
Page vi - History of Russian Literature," says of this story : " Count Tolstoi' dwells with especial fondness on the sharp contrast between the frivolity, the tinsel brightness, the tumult and vanity, of the worldly life, and the sweet, holy calm enjoyed by those who, possessing the soil, live amid the beauties of Nature and the pleasures of the family.