In this novel, a woman convalescing in Germany learns that her idol, Madame Stahl, only stays bedridden to avoid showing her short legs. Two people in this novel get engaged after a game of communicating by writing the first letters of the words they want to say. The French 
In this novel, a woman convalescing in Germany learns that her idol, Madame Stahl, only stays bedridden to avoid showing her short legs. Two people in this novel get engaged after a game of communicating by writing the first letters of the words they want to say. The French psychic Landau convinces a bureaucrat in this novel not to grant his wife a divorce. Towards the end of this novel, a landowner finds faith after seeing lightning fell an oak and conversing with the peasant Fyodor. Stiva sends for his sister to help save his marriage to Dolly Oblonskaya at the beginning of this novel, which asserts that "Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." For 10 points, name this Leo Tolstoy novel about the lover of Count Vronsky.
In this novel, a woman convalescing in Germany learns that her idol, Madame Stahl, only stays bedridden to avoid showing her short legs.