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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Tolstoy, Leo

Tolstoy, Leo
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Anna Karenina: Part One

Chapters 1 Through 6

The opening sentence, "All happy families are alike but an unhappy family
is unhappy after its own fashion," sets the tone for the unhappy situation in
which Prince Oblonsky finds himself when his wife learns of his affair with
their children's French governess. It is a miserable situation, even vulgar,
but the Prince says to himself, "What a governess!"

Oblonsky wakes up in his study where he has spent the night on a leather
sofa. After recalling a delightful dream which took place in a German city in
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