Some interpret its epigraph as its author's response to Dumas' L'Homme- femme, as the "vengeance" it speaks of will eventually come from God. Death permeates the novel, as the horse Frou-Frou fails to make it over a water jump, and Nicholas dies right after his sister-in-law's "illness is pregnancy." The French psychic Landau insists that the title character's husband not divorce her, even though that title character is repulsed by her husband's "gristly ears." Dolly accepts the title character's affair, though the novel's opening line about unhappy families being unha
Some interpret its epigraph as its author's response to Dumas' L'Homme- femme, as the "vengeance" it speaks of will eventually come from God. Death permeates the novel, as the horse Frou-Frou fails to make it over a water jump, and Nicholas dies right after his sister-in-law's "illness is pregnancy." The French psychic Landau insists that the title character's husband not divorce her, even though that title character is repulsed by her husband's "gristly ears." Dolly accepts the title character's affair, though the novel's opening line about unhappy families being unhappy in their own ways proves by the novel's end. FTP, name this novel in which the title character leaves her son Seryozha and her husband Alexei for Vronsky then throws herself under a train, a work of Leo Tolstoy.
Some interpret its epigraph as its author's response to Dumas' L'Homme- femme, as the "vengeance" it speaks of will eventually come from God.
{Anna Karenina}