Leo Tolstoy · 1878
Anna, Vronsky, Levin and Kitty (translated by Constance Garnett, 1901). Read Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy page by page and explore its network of 1,226…
Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every person in the house felt that there was no sense in their living together, and that the stray people brought together by chance in…
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