Anatomy of Anna Karenina

But what’s to be done? What’s to be done?” he said to himself in despair, and found no answer. (Ch 1, para 15) Clip

And she went out, slamming the door. (Ch 4, para 31) Clip

And he had now come to Moscow with a firm determination to make an offer, and get married if he were accepted. (Ch 6, para 9) Clip

Levin listened no more, and simply waited for the professor to go. (Ch 7, para 14) Clip

From his brother’s Levin went to Oblonsky’s office, and on getting news of the Shtcherbatskys from him, he drove to the place where he had been told he might find Kitty. (Ch 8, para 31) Clip

Good-bye till this evening. (Ch 9, para 53) Clip

At these words Levin’s face suddenly lighted up with a smile, a smile not far from tears of emotion. (Ch 10, para 77) Clip

No, she could not tell an untruth with those eyes,” thought the mother, smiling at her agitation and happiness. (Ch 12, para 18) Clip

That cannot be ... forgive me. (Ch 13, para 17) Clip

the last impression he carried away with him of that evening was the smiling, happy face of Kitty answering Vronsky’s inquiry about the ball (Ch 14, para 70) Clip

her happiness was poisoned by doubts. “Lord, have pity on us; Lord, have pity on us; Lord, have pity on us! (Ch 15, para 1) Clip

Well, what then? Oh, nothing. It’s good for me, and good for her. (Ch 16, para 8) Clip

Vronsky, standing beside Oblonsky, watched the carriages and the passengers, totally oblivious of his mother. What he had just heard about Kitty excited and delighted him. Unconsciously he arched his chest, and his eyes flashed. He felt himself a conqueror. (Ch 17, para 37) Clip

It’s an omen of evil,” she said. (Ch 18, para 62) Clip

My dear, how glad I am you came. It has made things better, ever so much better. (Ch 19, para 54) Clip

For some reason it was disagreeable to her to think of it. She felt that there was something that had to do with her in it, and something that ought not to have been. (Ch 20, para 36) Clip

long afterwards—for several years after—that look, full of love, to which he made no response, cut her to the heart with an agony of shame (Ch 22, para 24) Clip

Anna Arkadyevna did not stay to supper, but went home. (Ch 23, para 27) Clip

Ah, Kostya!” he exclaimed suddenly, recognizing his brother, and his eyes lit up with joy. (Ch 24, para 18) Clip

Masha promised to write to Konstantin in case of need, and to persuade Nikolay Levin to go and stay with his brother. (Ch 25, para 70) Clip

Like the mother! though the color takes after the father; but that’s nothing. Very good. (Ch 26, para 11) Clip

that’s what I’ll do! Nothing’s amiss.... All’s well. (Ch 27, para 13) Clip

You understood me, and you understand. Good-bye, my darling! (Ch 28, para 36) Clip

Yes, I want a little air. It’s very hot in here. (Ch 29, para 5) Clip

Oh, mercy! why do his ears look like that?” she thought, looking at his frigid and imposing figure, and especially the ears that struck her at the moment as propping up the brim of his round hat. (Ch 30, para 10) Clip

To speak of it would be to attach importance to what has no importance. (Ch 32, para 19) Clip

As he always did in Petersburg, he left home not meaning to return till late at night. (Ch 34, para 29) Clip

Really, I’m quite well, mamma. But if you want to go abroad, let’s go! (Ch 35, para 33) Clip

I’d been meaning to tell you something for a long while, mamma: did you know that Levin meant to make Kitty an offer when he was here the last time? (Ch 36, para 28) Clip

she realized distinctly from the rush of disappointment that she had been deceiving herself, and that this pursuit was not merely not distasteful to her, but that it made the whole interest of her life. (Ch 38, para 6) Clip

He wanted to see him, to report on the result of his mediation, which had occupied and amused him for the last three days. (Ch 39, para 20) Clip

Ah, here you are at last!” she said, turning with a smile to Vronsky, as he came in. (Ch 40, para 49) Clip

Already, from the sound of light steps on the stairs, he was aware that she was close, and though he was satisfied with his speech, he felt frightened of the explanation confronting him. (Ch 42, para 14) Clip

It’s late, it’s late,” she whispered with a smile. A long while she lay, not moving, with open eyes, whose brilliance she almost fancied she could herself see in the darkness. (Ch 43, para 32) Clip

the real spring had come. (Ch 46, para 4) Clip

Levin went home at a trot, so as to have time to eat his dinner and get his gun ready for the evening. (Ch 47, para 67) Clip

Perhaps because I rejoice in what I have, and don’t fret for what I haven’t,” said Levin, thinking of Kitty. (Ch 48, para 34) Clip

I’ve got it, Stiva!” he shouted. (Ch 49, para 34) Clip

Within an hour the merchant, stroking his big overcoat neatly down, and hooking up his jacket, with the agreement in his pocket, seated himself in his tightly covered trap, and drove homewards. (Ch 50, para 41) Clip

Now that he had opened his heart, he became as he had been in the morning. “You’re not angry with me, Stiva? Please don’t be angry,” he said, and smiling, he took his hand. (Ch 51, para 35) Clip

These two passions did not interfere with one another. On the contrary, he needed occupation and distraction quite apart from his love, so as to recruit and rest himself from the violent emotions that agitated him. (Ch 52, para 8) Clip

And as he vividly pictured the happiness of seeing her, his face lighted up. (Ch 53, para 3) Clip

To the stables!” he said, and was just pulling out the letters to read them through, but he thought better of it, and put off reading them so as not to distract his attention before looking at the mare. “Later! (Ch 54, para 42) Clip

Throw up everything, she and I, and hide ourselves somewhere alone with our love,” he said to himself. (Ch 55, para 37) Clip

I see something has happened. Do you suppose I can be at peace, knowing you have a trouble I am not sharing? (Ch 56, para 25) Clip

I am like a hungry man who has been given food. He may be cold, and dressed in rags, and ashamed, but he is not unhappy. (Ch 57, para 22) Clip

As though she did not know which foot to put first, Frou-Frou started, dragging at the reins with her long neck, and as though she were on springs, shaking her rider from side to side. (Ch 58, para 38) Clip

at the same instant Vronsky, to his horror, felt that he had failed to keep up with the mare’s pace, that he had, he did not know how, made a fearful, unpardonable mistake, in recovering his seat in the saddle. (Ch 59, para 18) Clip

There was nothing remarkable in all this conversation, but never after could Anna recall this brief scene without an agonizing pang of shame. (Ch 61, para 16) Clip

He examined that face again, trying not to read what was so plainly written on it, and against his own will, with horror read on it what he did not want to know. (Ch 62, para 30) Clip

I have long wished for this too,” she said. (Ch 65, para 35) Clip

Yes, yes, that’s it!” Kitty repeated to herself with horror. “No, it can’t be, it oughtn’t to be! (Ch 67, para 20) Clip

All that was left was a woman with short legs, who lay down because she had a bad figure, and worried patient Varenka for not arranging her rug to her liking. (Ch 68, para 61) Clip

Peace was made. But with her father’s coming all the world in which she had been living was transformed for Kitty. (Ch 69, para 60) Clip

I don’t know the riddle,” answered Levin wearily. (Ch 71, para 18) Clip

our district self-government and all the rest of it—it’s just like the birch branches we stick in the ground on Trinity Day, for instance, to look like a copse which has grown up of itself in Europe (Ch 72, para 49) Clip

It’s splendid as exercise, only you’ll hardly be able to stand it,” said Sergey Ivanovitch, without a shade of irony. (Ch 73, para 14) Clip

He felt as though some external force were moving him. (Ch 74, para 29) Clip

And he ran downstairs, clattering with his heels like a spring-rattle. (Ch 75, para 38) Clip

Mercy! Your new white frock! Tanya! Grisha!” said their mother, trying to save the frock, but with tears in her eyes, smiling a blissful, rapturous smile. (Ch 77, para 12) Clip

Really,” he said, flushing, and at once, to change the conversation, he said: “Then I’ll send you two cows, shall I? (Ch 78, para 18) Clip

He said good-bye and drove away, and she did not try to keep him. (Ch 79, para 52) Clip

She is bound to be unhappy, but I am not to blame, and so I cannot be unhappy. (Ch 82, para 16) Clip

recollecting as he lay in bed the incident with his wife, he saw it now in by no means such a gloomy light. (Ch 83, para 10) Clip

No need of anything,” she said to herself, and closing her blotting-case she went upstairs (Ch 84, para 28) Clip

No; don’t unpack till tomorrow, and let the carriage wait. I’m going to the princess’s. (Ch 85, para 18) Clip

But here they are. (Ch 86, para 38) Clip

remembering that gesture—terrible even in memory—when she had clutched her hair in both hands—she said good-bye and went away. (Ch 87, para 34) Clip

His eyes shone particularly brightly, and he felt in that confident, calm, and happy frame of mind which always came after he had thoroughly faced his position. (Ch 89, para 10) Clip

Vronsky opened the letter, and flushed crimson. (Ch 90, para 63) Clip

For me there is one thing, and one thing only—your love. If that’s mine, I feel so exalted, so strong (Ch 91, para 34) Clip

I want you not to meet that man here, and to conduct yourself so that neither the world nor the servants can reproach you (Ch 92, para 21) Clip

he handed over all the now revolting business of the estate to the bailiff, and set off next day (Ch 93, para 5) Clip

the impression was so strong that Levin could never get rid of it (Ch 94, para 23) Clip

Sviazhsky was sitting sideways, with one elbow on the table, and a cup in one hand, while with the other hand he gathered up his beard (Ch 95, para 17) Clip

And in the happiest frame of mind Sviazhsky got up and walked off (Ch 96, para 40) Clip

he would have to make haste to put his new project to the peasants before the sowing of the winter wheat (Ch 97, para 34) Clip

Well, here’s visitors come to us, and you won’t be dull,” said Agafea Mihalovna (Ch 99, para 24) Clip

Why, he’s dying—yes, he’ll die in the spring, and how help him? What can I say to him? (Ch 100, para 28) Clip

Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work (Ch 101, para 32) Clip

he was happy to be rid of his uncomfortable position and the unpleasant reflection of himself (Ch 102, para 8) Clip

She was listening to the stirring of the new life within her (Ch 104, para 64) Clip

And he was going away, but now she detained him (Ch 105, para 33) Clip

He felt so mirthful that, contrary to his rules, he made a reduction in his terms to the haggling lady (Ch 106, para 46) Clip

I shall come round tomorrow!” Stepan Arkadyevitch shouted to him (Ch 107, para 22) Clip

it was four o’clock before he got to Alexey Alexandrovitch (Ch 108, para 34) Clip

I’ve promised, and I’ll come,” he answered wearily (Ch 109, para 41) Clip

I’m sorry, I’m sorry, and I’ll never think ill of people again!” he said gaily, genuinely expressing what he felt at the moment (Ch 112, para 15) Clip

I hate her with my whole soul, and I cannot even forgive her, because I hate her too much for all the wrong she has done me! (Ch 113, para 43) Clip

For a long while he could not understand what she had written, and often looked into her eyes. He was stupefied with happiness (Ch 114, para 36) Clip

At four o’clock he heard steps in the passage and peeped out at the door. It was the gambler Myaskin, whom he knew, coming from the club. He walked gloomily, frowning and coughing. (Ch 115, para 34) Clip

He saw nothing but her clear, truthful eyes, frightened by the same bliss of love that flooded his heart. Those eyes were shining nearer and nearer, blinding him with their light of love. (Ch 116, para 11) Clip

But his happiness was so immense that this confession did not shatter it, it only added another shade to it. She forgave him; but from that time more than ever he considered himself unworthy of her (Ch 117, para 36) Clip

He suddenly felt that what he had regarded as nervous agitation was on the contrary a blissful spiritual condition that gave him all at once a new happiness he had never known. (Ch 118, para 39) Clip

And he saw this by the suppressed, malicious, and ironical smile with which Betsy glanced at him after this phrase. (Ch 120, para 52) Clip

No, it can’t go on like this,” Alexey Alexandrovitch said to himself decidedly as he left his wife’s room. (Ch 121, para 16) Clip

Yes, yes!” he cried in a shrill voice. “I will take the disgrace on myself, I will give up even my son, but ... but wouldn’t it be better to let it alone? (Ch 123, para 37) Clip

Yes, you have conquered me, and I am yours,” she said at last, pressing his hands to her bosom. (Ch 124, para 20) Clip

On getting home that day, Levin had a delightful sense of relief at the awkward position being over and having been got through without his having to tell a lie. (Ch 125, para 39) Clip

Kitty had not simply assured him that she loved him, but had gone so far—in answer to his question, what she loved him for—as to explain what for. (Ch 126, para 45) Clip

Three minutes later Levin ran full speed into the corridor, not looking at his watch for fear of aggravating his sufferings. (Ch 127, para 18) Clip

What a pretty dear the bride is—like a lamb decked with flowers! Well, say what you will, we women feel for our sister. (Ch 129, para 31) Clip

And it seemed to her that she understood everything, most of all, that he was pleased with her; and smiling to him, she walked with her rapid step out at the door. (Ch 131, para 30) Clip

More than any other style he liked the French—graceful and effective—and in that style he began to paint Anna’s portrait in Italian costume, and the portrait seemed to him, and to everyone who saw it, extremely successful. (Ch 132, para 8) Clip

Please step in,” he said, trying to look indifferent, and going into the passage he took a key out of his pocket and opened the door. (Ch 134, para 13) Clip

Mihailov was greatly perturbed, but he could say nothing in defense of his own idea. (Ch 135, para 25) Clip

At last, as it were regretfully tearing himself away, he dropped the cloth, and, exhausted but happy, went home. (Ch 136, para 11) Clip

The mere idea of his wife, his Kitty, being in the same room with a common wench, set him shuddering with horror and loathing. (Ch 140, para 31) Clip

Levin, shaking with sobs and unable to articulate a word, went out of the room. (Ch 142, para 17) Clip

In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. (Ch 144, para 55) Clip

Countess Lidia Ivanovna looked at him ecstatically, and tears of rapture at the greatness of his soul came into her eyes. (Ch 148, para 42) Clip

When the candle was taken away, Seryozha heard and felt his mother. She stood over him, and with loving eyes caressed him. (Ch 151, para 25) Clip

When the candle was taken away, Seryozha heard and felt his mother. She stood over him, and with loving eyes caressed him. But then came windmills, a knife, everything began to be mixed up, and he fell asleep. (Ch 151, para 25) Clip

I knew, I knew!” he repeated his favorite phrase, and snatching the hand that was stroking his hair, he pressed the open palm to his mouth and kissed it. (Ch 153, para 43) Clip

She had not time to undo, and so carried back with her, the parcel of toys she had chosen the day before in a toy shop with such love and sorrow. (Ch 154, para 27) Clip

My feeling cannot change, you know, but I beg you, I entreat you,” he said again in French, with a note of tender supplication in his voice, but with coldness in his eyes. (Ch 156, para 24) Clip

I don’t care to know!” she almost shrieked. “I don’t care to. Do I regret what I have done? No, no, no! If it were all to do again from the beginning, it would be the same. (Ch 156, para 22) Clip

And the asseverations of his love, which seemed to him so vulgar that he was ashamed to utter them, she drank in eagerly, and gradually became calmer. The next day, completely reconciled, they left for the country. (Ch 157, para 73) Clip

I think so, and I don’t think so. Only, I’m awfully anxious for it. Here, wait a minute.” She stooped down and picked a wild camomile at the edge of the path. (Ch 160, para 40) Clip

When he had got home again and went over the whole subject, Sergey Ivanovitch thought his previous decision had been a mistaken one. He could not be false to the memory of Marie. (Ch 162, para 21) Clip

And more hateful than anyone was Kitty for falling in with the tone of gaiety with which this gentleman regarded his visit in the country, as though it were a holiday for himself and everyone else. (Ch 163, para 41) Clip

Oh, then I’ll keep him here all the summer, and will overwhelm him with civility,” said Levin, kissing her hands. “You shall see. Tomorrow.... Oh, yes, we are going tomorrow. (Ch 164, para 63) Clip

The coachman rode back on the trace-horse, and Levin himself drove the remaining pair. (Ch 165, para 34) Clip

it was in the very best of spirits that after lunch they drove to the Gvozdyov marsh. (Ch 166, para 34) Clip

He had fourteen birds. (Ch 167, para 40) Clip

Is it really only negative?” he repeated to himself. “Well, what of it? It’s not my fault. (Ch 168, para 62) Clip

And Levin was doubly pleased, in sight of the boy, who expressed his approval, at killing three snipe (Ch 169, para 18) Clip

It was particularly delightful to him to have got rid of the hostility he had been feeling towards Vassenka (Ch 170, para 17) Clip

they passed him on their way home with comforted and radiant faces. (Ch 171, para 49) Clip

by the evening Vassenka’s dismissal was spoken of, in the absence of the princess, as though it were some remote event. (Ch 172, para 56) Clip

In such daydreams she reached the turning of the highroad that led to Vozdvizhenskoe. (Ch 173, para 19) Clip

But now Dolly was struck by that temporary beauty, which is only found in women during the moments of love (Ch 174, para 32) Clip

The chief thing I shouldn’t like would be for people to imagine I want to prove anything. (Ch 175, para 35) Clip

Mais je ne vous ferai grâce de rien. I must have everything out with you. (Ch 176, para 27) Clip

She liked him so much just now with his eager interest that she saw how Anna could be in love with him. (Ch 177, para 42) Clip

All that day it seemed to her as though she were acting in a theater with actors cleverer than she (Ch 179, para 59) Clip

It hurt her to stir up these feelings, but yet she knew that that was the best part of her soul (Ch 181, para 24) Clip

In any case I can give up anything for her, but not my masculine independence (Ch 182, para 9) Clip

it was painful to him to see all these excellent persons, for whom he had a respect, in such an unpleasant and vicious state of excitement (Ch 185, para 6) Clip

Annie is very ill, the doctor says it may be inflammation. I am losing my head all alone. (Ch 188, para 18) Clip

there gleamed in his eyes not merely a cold look, but the vindictive look of a man persecuted and made cruel (Ch 189, para 37) Clip

On the way he thought no more of money, but mused on the introduction that awaited him to the Petersburg savant, a writer on sociology, and what he would say to him about his book. (Ch 191, para 51) Clip

having made up his mind to refuse Metrov’s invitation, Levin went up to him at the end of the meeting. (Ch 192, para 27) Clip

Oh, Kitty told me to talk to you about Oblonsky,” he said, as Lvov was standing on the stairs, seeing his wife and Levin off. (Ch 193, para 31) Clip

Among others he met Count Bol, whom he had utterly forgotten to call upon. (Ch 194, para 11) Clip

After driving home with his sister-in-law, and finding Kitty in good spirits and quite well, Levin drove to the club. (Ch 195, para 23) Clip

Well, have we finished?” said Stepan Arkadyevitch, getting up with a smile. “Let us go. (Ch 196, para 33) Clip

I am delighted!” He heard suddenly near him a voice, unmistakably addressing him, the voice of the very woman he had been admiring in the portrait. (Ch 198, para 17) Clip

Tell your wife that I love her as before, and that if she cannot pardon me my position, then my wish for her is that she may never pardon it. (Ch 199, para 49) Clip

Only at three o’clock were they sufficiently reconciled to be able to go to sleep. (Ch 200, para 25) Clip

And she felt that beside the love that bound them together there had grown up between them some evil spirit of strife, which she could not exorcise from his, and still less from her own heart. (Ch 201, para 20) Clip

Yes, that is she,” he said to himself, and clutching at his head he ran downstairs. (Ch 202, para 24) Clip

It was the bold, clamorous, self-assertive squall of the new human being, who had so incomprehensibly appeared. (Ch 204, para 16) Clip

There was nothing cheerful and joyous in the feeling; on the contrary, it was a new torture of apprehension. (Ch 205, para 23) Clip

I must think it over and seek for guidance. The day after tomorrow I will give you a final answer,” he said, after considering a moment. (Ch 207, para 28) Clip

Leave me alone! If I remember, or if I don’t remember?... what business is it of his? Why should I remember? Leave me in peace!” he said, addressing not his tutor, but the whole world. (Ch 208, para 28) Clip

Qu’elle sorte!” repeated the Frenchman impatiently. (Ch 211, para 7) Clip

Next day he received from Alexey Alexandrovitch a final answer, refusing to grant Anna’s divorce, and he understood that this decision was based on what the Frenchman had said in his real or pretended trance. (Ch 211, para 13) Clip

Vronsky besought her to be calm, and declared that there was no trace of foundation for her jealousy; that he had never ceased, and never would cease, to love her; that he loved her more than ever. (Ch 213, para 50) Clip

The whole of that day he spent away from home, and when he came in late in the evening the maid told him that Anna Arkadyevna had a headache and begged him not to go in to her. (Ch 214, para 68) Clip

Now when he was asleep, she loved him so that at the sight of him she could not keep back tears of tenderness. (Ch 215, para 10) Clip

Why fret yourself so, Anna Arkadyevna? Why, there’s nothing out of the way. You drive out a little, and it’ll cheer you up,” said the maid. (Ch 216, para 24) Clip

Yes, there’s something unusual about her today,” said Dolly. “When I went with her into the hall, I fancied she was almost crying. (Ch 217, para 39) Clip

Yes, I shall be in time.” She gave orders for the other horses to be put in the carriage, and packed in a traveling-bag the things needed for a few days. (Ch 218, para 11) Clip

Then she thought that life might still be happy, and how miserably she loved and hated him, and how fearfully her heart was beating. (Ch 219, para 8) Clip

He was going both to rest for a fortnight, and in the very heart of the people, in the farthest wilds of the country, to enjoy the sight of that uplifting of the spirit of the people (Ch 221, para 23) Clip

On the platform there rang out “God save the Tsar,” then shouts of “hurrah!” and “jivio! (Ch 222, para 37) Clip

Katavasov went back to his own carriage, and with reluctant hypocrisy reported to Sergey Ivanovitch his observations of the volunteers, from which it would appear that they were capital fellows. (Ch 223, para 17) Clip

Sergey Ivanovitch said he would be very glad to, and crossed over to the other side of the station. (Ch 224, para 14) Clip

And after talking a little more of King Milan’s proclamation, and the immense effect it might have, they parted, going to their carriages on hearing the second bell. (Ch 225, para 17) Clip

Well, well; then we shall see,” whispered Kitty. “But now go away, he’s going to sleep. (Ch 226, para 29) Clip

Yes, only be like your father, only like him,” she said, handing Mitya over to the nurse, and putting her lips to his cheek. (Ch 227, para 11) Clip

But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself; he went on living. (Ch 229, para 14) Clip

Can this be faith?” he thought, afraid to believe in his happiness. “My God, I thank Thee!” he said, gulping down his sobs, and with both hands brushing away the tears that filled his eyes. (Ch 233, para 20) Clip

Levin ceased thinking, and only, as it were, listened to mysterious voices that seemed talking joyfully and earnestly within him. (Ch 233, para 19) Clip

Just as his bodily strength was still unaffected, in spite of the bees, so too was the spiritual strength that he had just become aware of. (Ch 234, para 43) Clip

And Levin ceased speaking and then called the attention of his guests to the fact that the storm clouds were gathering (Ch 236, para 26) Clip

Alive? Unhurt? Thank God!” he said, splashing with his soaked boots through the standing water (Ch 237, para 16) Clip

Well, go back to them. It’s always so hot and steamy here after the bath. (Ch 238, para 25) Clip