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1870
ANNA KARENINA
by Leo Tolstoy
translated by Constance Garnett
PART ONE
Vengeance is mine; I will repay
I.
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its
own way.
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 two days,
and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of
their family and the household, were painfully conscious of it. All
the members of the family and the household felt that there was no
sense in their living together, and that even stray people brought
toge . . .
