Anna Karenine by Lev Tolstoy

Anna Karenine by Lev Tolstoy

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1917. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... did was to agree entirely with everything suggested to him. His brother raised money for him, the princess advised him to leave Moscow after the wedding. Stepan Arkadyevitch advised him to go abroad. He agreed to everything. 'Do what you choose, if it amuses you. I'm happy, and my happiness can be no greater and no less for anything you do, ' he thought. When he told Kitty of Stepan Arkadyevitch's advice that they should go abroad, he was much surprised that she did not agree to this, and had some definite requirements of her own in regard to their future. She knew Levin had work he loved in the country. She did not, as he saw, understand this work, she did not even care to understand it. But that did not prevent her from regarding it as a matter of great importance. And then she knew their home would be in the country, and she wanted to go, not abroad where she was not going to live, but to the place where their home Would be. This definitely expressed purpose astonished Levin. But since he did not care either way, he immediately asked Stepan Arkadyevitch, as though it was his duty, to go down to the country and to arrange everything there to the best of his ability with the taste of which he had so much. 'But I say, ' Stepan Arkadyevitch said to him one day after he had come back from the country, where he had got everything ready for the young people's arrival, 'have you a certificate of having been at confession?' 'No. But what of it?' 'You can't be married without it.' 'Ate, die, die ' cried Levin. 'Why, I believe it's nine years since I've taken the sacrament I never thought of it.' 'You're a pretty fellow ' said Stepan Arkadyevitch laughing, 'and you call me a Nihilist But this won't do, you know. You must take the sacrament.' 'When? There are four days l...

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ISBN 13	9782253098386
ISBN 10	2253098388
Title	Anna Karenine
Author	Lev Tolstoy
Series	Livre De Poche Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Le Livre de poche
Year published	2007-10-17
Number of pages	1021
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