anna karenina

     

Count Vronsky & the husband of this title character have the same first name: Alexey

Trivia about anna karenina

  • Oprah picked this Tolstoy tragedy about an unhappy family for her book club
  • This 1875 epic novel begins, "All happy familes are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion"
  • Tolstoy wrote that this heroine "tried in vain to find some imperfection" in her lover Vronsky
  • Though still living with her husband, a government official, she has an affair with the dashing Count Vronsky
  • This 1878 title gal has a child with her hubby Alexei but her affair with Vronsky is what gets her preggers again
  • In a modern opera based on an 1870s novel, this woman loses her train of thought & throws herself in front of a train
  • 1878:Heroine.Russia.Affair.Exile.Paranoia.Train!
  • Translator Rosemary Edmonds leaves the final "A" off the last name of this Tolstoy title heroine
  • Jimmy Smits played a man who reads this 1870s novel to cigar factory workers in the play "Anna in the Tropics"
  • Tolstoy was partly inspired to write this novel after a neighbor threw herself under a train
  • Prophetically, she first meets Count Vronsky at a train station shortly before a man is run down by a train
  • This Tolstoy novel begins, "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"
  • Spoiler warning! We're about to give away the ending! She throws herself under a train! In Russia!
  • (1870s)"In a flash she remembered the man who had been run down by the train the day she first met Vronsky"
  • In this novel, Count Vronsky is "passionately fond of horses"--& of a married woman who's the title character
  • "All happy families are alike but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion."
  • Although married to Alexei, she falls in love with the handsome Count Vronsky
  • A train platform spells final jeopardy for this Tolstoy title heroine
  • Young Russian count wanted for affair with married woman; open to pregnancy & train travel
  • Ironically, the Madame Alexander doll based on this Tolstoy heroine wore a dress with a long train
  • This Tolstoy character is one Aleksei's lover & another Aleksei's wife
  • When Count Vronsky's love for her seems to fade, she throws herself under a train
  • Kitty & Levin's marriage is great, she thought. My guy stinks. With that, she pushed Hubby under the train. Whoomp!
  • By the time this 1877 title woman realizes she's been looking at life & love wrong, she catches a train, literally
  • In Russian lit, she says, "There, in the very middle, and I shall punish him and escape from them all and from myself"
  • The 1981 opera based on this Tolstoy novel begins, & ends, at a Moscow railway station
  • The 2008 novel "What Happened to Anna K." retells this Tolstoy tale in a modern setting
  • Sister of Stepan Oblonsky, she's a Tolstoy title lady
  • Vronsky sits incorrectly in Frou-Frou's saddle, causing the horse's death in this 1875 novel

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