Anna Karenina. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002

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Anna Karenina


(AN-uh kuh-REN-uh-nuh) (1873–1876) A novel by Leo Tolstoy; the title character enters a tragic adulterous affair and commits suicide by throwing herself under a train.	1
‡ Anna Karenina begins with the famous sentence “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”	2

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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