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Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy
A married aristocrat's tragic affair — opens with the most famous first line in fiction.

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The most famous opening line in fiction belongs to a novel that's actually about something far more unsettling than adultery — and Tolstoy knew exactly what he was doing.

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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…

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