Part 1, Chapter 18
The railwayman crushed at Anna's arrival in Moscow.
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From Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The railway, emblem of modernity and mechanical fate, frames Anna's story from her first meeting with Vronsky to her death.
Part 1, Chapter 29-30
Anna's snowstorm journey back to Petersburg, where Vronsky appears at the station, marks her surrender to passion.
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Anna's death beneath the train completes the cyclical railway imagery.
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