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Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy · 1877 CE · Novel · Russian · Victorian

A married woman of Petersburg society meets a cavalry officer at a Moscow railway station and cannot go back to the life she had before it. Running alongside her, a landowner named Levin courts, farms and argues his way toward something he can actually believe. A passion that will not fit inside a marriage or a society; happiness and ruin traced side by side.

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