Part 5, Chapter 24
Karenin under the spell of Countess Lydia Ivanovna and the spiritualist Landau, his career and personal life unraveling.
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From Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Karenin's hollow officialdom and Vronsky's military-social ambitions critique the empty striving of Petersburg society.
Part 2, Chapter 5
Vronsky's mother's Petersburg circles and the social codes he obeys.
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