item: #1 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_001 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 1) date: 1877 words: 980 flesch: 78 summary: Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch OblonskyStiva woke up at 8 o'clock in the morning on the leather-covered sofa in his study. Alabin was giving a dinner at Darmstadt and the tables sang. keywords: smile; wife cache: part_01_chapter_001.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_001.txt item: #2 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_002 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 2) date: 1877 words: 1253 flesch: 86 summary: Stepan Arkadyevitch was unfaithful to his wife. His wife was a governess. She is a mother of five living and two dead children and a year younger than him. Stepan felt sorry for his wife, his children and himself. keywords: matvey; stepan cache: part_01_chapter_002.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_002.txt item: #3 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_003 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 3) date: 1877 words: 1682 flesch: 69 summary: Stepan Arkadyevitch read unpleasant letters from a merchant who wanted to sell a forest on his wife's property. He read a liberal paper advocating the views held by the majority. He didn't choose his political opinions or his political views. keywords: arkadyevitch; girl; stepan cache: part_01_chapter_003.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_003.txt item: #4 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_004 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 4) date: 1877 words: 1892 flesch: 90 summary: Darya Alexandrovna is afraid of her husband and afraid of the coming interview. She is trying to sort out the children's things and her own so as to take them to her mother's, but she can't bring herself to do this. She wants to leave him, but can't because she regards him as her husband. keywords: children; face cache: part_01_chapter_004.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_004.txt item: #5 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_005 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 5) date: 1877 words: 3151 flesch: 75 summary: Stepan Arkadyevitch is president of one of the government boards at Moscow. He got the post through his sister Anna's husband, Alexey Alexandrovitch Karenin. Stiva Oblonsky got a similar position through his brother-in-law. keywords: arkadyevitch; levin; oblonsky; stepan; stepan arkadyevitch cache: part_01_chapter_005.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_005.txt item: #6 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_006 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 6) date: 1877 words: 1152 flesch: 55 summary: Konstantin Levin visited Oblonsky to make his sister-in-law an offer. Konstantin was in love with the Shtcherbatsky family, especially with the feminine half of the household. He had been deprived of his family by the death of his father and mother. keywords: levin; love cache: part_01_chapter_006.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_006.txt item: #7 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_007 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 7) date: 1877 words: 782 flesch: 59 summary: On arriving in Moscow, Levin stayed at the house of his half-brother, Koznishev. He wanted to talk to his brother about the object of his visit, but his brother and a professor of philosophy were arguing over a philosophical issue. Levin became interested in the discussion. keywords: professor; sergey cache: part_01_chapter_007.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_007.txt item: #8 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_008 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 8) date: 1877 words: 921 flesch: 83 summary: Levin wanted to tell his brother about his plans to get married. Sergey Ivanovitch took a more patronizing tone when Levin told him about the sale of his wheat and money matters. Levin is no longer a member of the district council as he no longer attends the meetings. keywords: levin cache: part_01_chapter_008.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_008.txt item: #9 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_009 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 9) date: 1877 words: 2481 flesch: 86 summary: Levin was at the Zoological Gardens. He saw Shtcherbatskys' carriage at the entrance. Crowds of well-dressed people swarmed about the entrance and along the well-swept little paths between the little houses adorned with carving in the Russian style. He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. keywords: kitty; levin; skate cache: part_01_chapter_009.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_009.txt item: #10 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_010 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 10) date: 1877 words: 2504 flesch: 87 summary: Levin and Oblonsky went to a restaurant with Stepan Arkadyevitch. They ordered fish and vodka for appetizer, but didn't take any vodka because they loathed the Frenchwoman behind the counter. Prince Golistin and a lady came to the restaurant. keywords: arkadyevitch; levin; oysters; stepan cache: part_01_chapter_010.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_010.txt item: #11 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_011 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 11) date: 1877 words: 1574 flesch: 86 summary: Stepan Arkadyevitch and Oblonsky are gossiping about Vronsky, who is in love with Kitty's mother. Levin doesn't know anything about him, but he's a rival of his brother Nikolay. keywords: arkadyevitch; levin; stepan cache: part_01_chapter_011.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_011.txt item: #12 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_012 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 12) date: 1877 words: 1709 flesch: 73 summary: Princess Kitty Shtcherbatskaya was 18 when she was introduced to Count Vronsky. She was in love with him, but her mother didn't approve of his behavior. She didn't like that he kept coming to her house for six weeks and then left. keywords: kitty; princess cache: part_01_chapter_012.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_012.txt item: #13 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_013 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 13) date: 1877 words: 906 flesch: 88 summary: Kitty and Konstantin Dmitrievitch Levin are going to meet for the first time tonight. The princess is in her room and the prince hasn't come in yet. The footman announced that Konstantina Dmitriievitch Levin had come early to find Kitty alone and make her an offer. keywords: levin cache: part_01_chapter_013.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_013.txt item: #14 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_014 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 14) date: 1877 words: 2417 flesch: 79 summary: Kitty refused to marry Vronsky. Countess Nordston wanted to make a match for Kitty and wanted Levin to leave her for her. Levin couldn't bear her because of her nervousness and her contempt for everything coarse and earthly. keywords: levin; vronsky cache: part_01_chapter_014.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_014.txt item: #15 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_015 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 15) date: 1877 words: 911 flesch: 86 summary: At the end of the evening Kitty told her mother of her conversation with Levin and she was glad at the thought that she had received an offer. After she had gone to bed she could not sleep. She remembered the love for her of the man she loved, and she lay on the pillow smiling with happiness. But her happiness was poisoned by doubts. Meanwhile there took place below in the prince's little library, one of the scenes so often repeated between the parents on account of their favorite daughter. keywords: pity cache: part_01_chapter_015.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_015.txt item: #16 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_016 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 16) date: 1877 words: 746 flesch: 79 summary: Vronsky had never had a real home life. His mother had been in her youth a brilliant society woman. Vronsky was educated in the Corps of Pages. He was a brilliant officer in Petersburg. In Moscow he had for the first time felt the charm of intimacy with a girl of his own rank, who cared for him. He did not know that his behavior in relation to Kitty had a definite character, that it is courting young girls with no intention of marriage. keywords: evening cache: part_01_chapter_016.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_016.txt item: #17 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_017 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 17) date: 1877 words: 1138 flesch: 81 summary: Vronsky went home after the Shtcherbatskys' yesterday. The next day at 11 o'clock in the morning he went to the station of the Petersburg railway to meet his mother. Oblonsky was expecting his sister by the same train. Vronsky didn't want to go anywhere. He wanted to meet Alexey Alexandrovitch, his brother-in-law. keywords: stepan; vronsky cache: part_01_chapter_017.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_017.txt item: #18 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_018 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 18) date: 1877 words: 1933 flesch: 88 summary: Vronsky followed the guard to the carriage and stopped short to make room for a lady who was getting out. Vronsky's mother, a dried-up old lady with black eyes and ringlets, gave her son a telegram and kissed him on the cheek. keywords: countess; vronsky cache: part_01_chapter_018.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_018.txt item: #19 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_019 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 19) date: 1877 words: 2325 flesch: 89 summary: Anna's sister-in-law is coming to visit Dolly. Dolly is depressed because her husband's wife is leaving her. Anna is the wife of one of the most important personages in Petersburg, and a grande dame. keywords: anna; sister cache: part_01_chapter_019.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_019.txt item: #20 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_020 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 20) date: 1877 words: 1303 flesch: 85 summary: Anna spent the whole day at home with Dolly and the children. Anna's brother, Oblonsky, dined at home. After dinner Kitty came to Anna Arkadyevna's. Anna was in love with Kitty. keywords: anna; kitty cache: part_01_chapter_020.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_020.txt item: #21 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_021 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 21) date: 1877 words: 867 flesch: 83 summary: Stepan Arkadyevitch and his wife are reconciled. Dolly wants to move Anna downstairs, but she needs to hang up blinds first. Anna doesn't want to do it, because she doesn't like Dolly's attitude towards Matvey. keywords: anna cache: part_01_chapter_021.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_021.txt item: #22 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_022 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 22) date: 1877 words: 1760 flesch: 80 summary: Kitty and her mother were preparing for the ball. They were admiring each other and the guests as they walked up the great staircase. Kitty was wearing an elaborate tulle dress over a pink slip. The first quadrille had already been given to Vronsky. Kitty had to promise the second one to a young man. keywords: anna; kitty; waltz cache: part_01_chapter_022.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_022.txt item: #23 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_023 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 23) date: 1877 words: 1638 flesch: 79 summary: Vronsky and Kitty waltzed several times round the room. Vronsky didn't ask Kitty for the mazurka. She refused five young men. She was dancing with Anna and she was intoxicated with the delighted admiration. keywords: anna; kitty cache: part_01_chapter_023.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_023.txt item: #24 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_024 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 24) date: 1877 words: 1638 flesch: 83 summary: Levin doesn't get on with other people. Vronsky chose him and he is to blame for that. He thinks of his brother Nikolay and his life of debauchery. Nikolay used to live like a monk and beat a boy. keywords: brother; levin cache: part_01_chapter_024.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_024.txt item: #25 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_025 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 25) date: 1877 words: 1816 flesch: 90 summary: Konstantin and Nikolay Levin are founding a locksmiths' association in the village of Vozdrem, Kazan government. They want to change the situation of the peasants, who are oppressed by capital. keywords: levin; nikolay cache: part_01_chapter_025.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_025.txt item: #26 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_026 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 26) date: 1877 words: 1367 flesch: 79 summary: Konstantin Levin left Moscow in the morning and reached home towards evening. He was confused and dissatisfied with himself, but when he saw his one-eyed coachman, Ignat, and his own sledge, his own horses with their tails tied up, in their harness trimmed with rings and tassels, he felt that the confusion was clearing up and self-dissatisfaction was passing away. Now he felt himself and did not want to be anyone else. keywords: bailiff; calf; levin cache: part_01_chapter_026.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_026.txt item: #27 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_027 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 27) date: 1877 words: 928 flesch: 85 summary: Levin lived alone in a big, old-fashioned house. He had the whole house heated and used. It was the house in which his father and mother had lived and died. Levin had dreamed of starting with his wife, his family and his future wife. Agafea Mihalovna brought him tea. He was reading a book and listening to gossip. keywords: levin; wife cache: part_01_chapter_027.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_027.txt item: #28 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_028 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 28) date: 1877 words: 1087 flesch: 90 summary: Anna Arkadyevna is leaving Moscow the same day as the ball. She is worried and upset. Dolly and Anna dined alone with the children and the English governess. After dinner, Anna went up to her room to dress and Dolly followed her. Anna didn't want to leave Petersburg. keywords: anna cache: part_01_chapter_028.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_028.txt item: #29 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_029 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 29) date: 1877 words: 1300 flesch: 81 summary: Anna Arkadyevna is going to see Seryozha and Alexey Alexandrovitch tomorrow. Anna was anxious about the journey. She took a lamp, a paper-knife and an English novel to keep her mind occupied. keywords: anna; annushka cache: part_01_chapter_029.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_029.txt item: #30 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_030 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 30) date: 1877 words: 1093 flesch: 81 summary: It was snowing heavily. Vronsky came to the station. He bowed to her and asked if he could be of any service to her. She didn't know he was coming. She had no need to ask why he came. keywords: face; feeling cache: part_01_chapter_030.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_030.txt item: #31 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_031 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 31) date: 1877 words: 1383 flesch: 81 summary: Vronsky didn't sleep that night because he was thinking about Anna. He was happy that he had told her the truth and that he came where she was. He didn't know what would come of it, but the happiness of his life lay in seeing and hearing her. keywords: husband; vronsky cache: part_01_chapter_031.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_031.txt item: #32 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_032 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 32) date: 1877 words: 861 flesch: 78 summary: Anna's son was the first person to meet her at home. Anna took out the presents Dolly's children had sent him and told her son what sort of little girl was Tanya at Moscow and how Tanya could read and even taught the other children. Anna liked Countess Lidia Ivanovna, but today she seemed to be seeing her for the first time with all her defects. keywords: anna; countess cache: part_01_chapter_032.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_032.txt item: #33 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_033 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 33) date: 1877 words: 1384 flesch: 78 summary: Alexey Alexandrovitch had a meeting of the ministers at 4 o'clock. He had to go to the council immediately after dinner. Anna didn't go out that evening to the Princess Betsy Tverskaya, who had invited her, nor to the theater where she had a box for the evening. keywords: alexandrovitch; anna cache: part_01_chapter_033.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_033.txt item: #34 of 249 id: part_01_chapter_034 author: Tolstoy title: Part 1 (Chapter 34) date: 1877 words: 1585 flesch: 82 summary: When Vronsky went to Moscow from Petersburg, he left his large set of rooms in Morskaia to his friend and favorite comrade Petritsky. On his arrival at his flat, he heard masculine laughter, the lisp of a feminine voice, and Petritky's voice. He entered the first room and found Baroness Shilton making coffee for him and the cavalry captain Kamerovsky. keywords: baroness; petritsky; vronsky cache: part_01_chapter_034.txt plain text: part_01_chapter_034.txt item: #35 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_001 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 1) date: 1877 words: 1347 flesch: 79 summary: At the end of the winter, in the Shtcherbatskys' house, a consultation was being held on the state of Kitty's health. She had been ill and as spring came on she grew worse. The family doctor gave her cod liver oil, iron, then nitrate of silver, but it didn't help. The celebrated physician was called in and examined the patient. After a careful examination and sounding of the bewildered patient, the doctor was talking to the prince. The prince had no faith in medicine. keywords: doctor; princess cache: part_02_chapter_001.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_001.txt item: #36 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_002 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 2) date: 1877 words: 1481 flesch: 87 summary: Kitty's fate was to be decided that day, but it was settled that they should go abroad. Dolly had another baby, a little girl, born at the end of the winter. Her relations with Stepan Arkadyevitch after their reconciliation had become humiliating. Anna had cemented a relationship with him, but he was hardly ever at home and didn't give her any money. Her family had problems with Lili's sickness. keywords: kitty; prince cache: part_02_chapter_002.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_002.txt item: #37 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_003 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 3) date: 1877 words: 1331 flesch: 88 summary: Darya Alexandrovna wants to talk to her sister Kitty about her ex-boyfriend. Kitty is upset, because he treated her with contempt. Dolly tries to calm her down, but Kitty gets mad and starts to cry. keywords: kitty; sister cache: part_02_chapter_003.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_003.txt item: #38 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_004 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 4) date: 1877 words: 1287 flesch: 78 summary: Anna had close ties in three different circles of the highest society in Petersburg. One circle was her husband's government official set. The other circle was made up of elderly, ugly, benevolent, and godly women, and clever, learned, and ambitious men. The third circle was preeminently the fashionable world. keywords: anna; circle cache: part_02_chapter_004.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_004.txt item: #39 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_005 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 5) date: 1877 words: 1381 flesch: 78 summary: Two young men were on their way to dinner with a friend when they saw a pretty woman in a hired sledge. They followed her to the house where she was having a farewell dinner with her friend. They wrote a letter to her in their host's study. The maid opened the door and found them. keywords: clerk; vronsky cache: part_02_chapter_005.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_005.txt item: #40 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_006 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 6) date: 1877 words: 1889 flesch: 83 summary: Princess Betsy came home from the theater without waiting for the end of the last act. She had just time to order tea in the big drawing-room when carriages arrived at her house in Bolshaia Morskaia. The hostess, her guests and Princess Myakaya were waiting for her. They were divided into two groups. keywords: ambassador; princess; wife cache: part_02_chapter_006.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_006.txt item: #41 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_007 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 7) date: 1877 words: 1958 flesch: 87 summary: Madame Karenina entered the drawing-room. Vronsky bowed low and pushed a chair up for Anna. Anna had been at Countess Lidia's and stayed there longer than she should have, because she was talking to Sir John, a missionary. The Vlassieva girl is in love with Topov and her parents think it's settled. keywords: anna; love cache: part_02_chapter_007.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_007.txt item: #42 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_008 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 8) date: 1877 words: 1569 flesch: 74 summary: Alexey Alexandrovitch's wife was sitting with Vronsky at a table apart, in conversation with him about something. He felt it was improper and he wanted to talk to his wife about it. He didn't want to go to bed, because he needed to think over the situation. keywords: alexandrovitch; alexey cache: part_02_chapter_008.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_008.txt item: #43 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_009 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 9) date: 1877 words: 1469 flesch: 83 summary: Anna came in with hanging head, playing with the tassels of her hood. Alexey Alexandrovitch wanted to talk to her, but she wanted to get to sleep. She looked at him so simply, so brightly, that anyone who did not know her as her husband knew her would not have noticed anything unnatural in the sound or sense of her words. keywords: alexandrovitch; alexey cache: part_02_chapter_009.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_009.txt item: #44 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_010 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 10) date: 1877 words: 249 flesch: 77 summary: Alexey Alexandrovitch and his wife Anna had a new life. Anna went out into society and met Vronsky everywhere. Alexey couldn't talk to her. He talked to her in a tone of jeering at anyone who tried to talk to him. keywords: alexey cache: part_02_chapter_010.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_010.txt item: #45 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_011 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 11) date: 1877 words: 771 flesch: 87 summary: Anna and Vronsky had been in love for almost a whole year. He killed her and she was humiliated. She cried and begged for forgiveness. He kissed her and covered her face and shoulders with kisses. She got up and pushed him. keywords: life cache: part_02_chapter_011.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_011.txt item: #46 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_012 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 12) date: 1877 words: 1194 flesch: 71 summary: After his return from Moscow Levin was rejected by his sister's boyfriend. Three months later he was still tormented by the memory of the rejection and the part he played in the affair. He was not at peace because he was not married and further away from marriage. keywords: nikolay; spring cache: part_02_chapter_012.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_012.txt item: #47 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_013 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 13) date: 1877 words: 2658 flesch: 87 summary: Spring is the time of plans and projects for Levin. The cows have been let out into their paddock and the calves let into the paddock. The carpenter was repairing the harrows before Lent. Levin was annoyed by the slovenliness of the farm work. keywords: horse; levin; sowing; vassily cache: part_02_chapter_013.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_013.txt item: #48 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_014 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 14) date: 1877 words: 1693 flesch: 82 summary: Stepan Arkadyevitch came to visit Levin on a hired three-horse sledge from the railway station. They had a stand-shooting and a sale of the forest at Ergushovo. Levin is glad to see him. keywords: arkadyevitch; levin; stepan cache: part_02_chapter_014.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_014.txt item: #49 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_015 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 15) date: 1877 words: 1296 flesch: 88 summary: Levin and Oblonsky were stand-shooting in a little aspen copse. The sun was setting behind a thick forest. The birch trees, dotted about in the copse, stood out clearly with their hanging twigs and their buds swollen almost to bursting. keywords: arkadyevitch; levin cache: part_02_chapter_015.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_015.txt item: #50 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_016 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 16) date: 1877 words: 1674 flesch: 88 summary: Stepan Arkadyevitch sold his forest to Ryabinin for thirty-eight thousand roubles per acre and the rest in six years. Levin is unhappy about the price, because the forest is worth at least a hundred and fifty roubles the acre. keywords: forest; levin; ryabinin cache: part_02_chapter_016.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_016.txt item: #51 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_017 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 17) date: 1877 words: 1697 flesch: 84 summary: Stepan Arkadyevitch went upstairs with his pocket bulging with notes, which the merchant had paid him for three months in advance. The business of the forest was over, the money in his pocket, and their shooting had been excellent. He wanted to finish the day at supper as pleasantly as it had been begun. Levin couldn't control his mood, because the news that Kitty was not married had gradually begun to work upon him. Kitty was ill, and ill from love for a man who had slighted her. Vronsky was her enemy. keywords: arkadyevitch; levin cache: part_02_chapter_017.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_017.txt item: #52 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_018 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 18) date: 1877 words: 741 flesch: 60 summary: Vronsky's regiment and his comrades were fond of him and respected him. Vronsky did not tell his comrades about his love for Anna Karenin, but it was known to all the town that he had relations with Madame Karenina. keywords: vronsky cache: part_02_chapter_018.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_018.txt item: #53 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_019 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 19) date: 1877 words: 1236 flesch: 83 summary: Vronsky will go to the races at Krasnoe Selo with his cousin Betsy. He will tell Betsy that Anna is coming to the race. He wants to meet her at his cousin Karenins' summer villa. keywords: vronsky; yashvin cache: part_02_chapter_019.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_019.txt item: #54 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_020 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 20) date: 1877 words: 1042 flesch: 90 summary: Vronsky and Petritsky are staying in a roomy, clean, Finnish hut divided into two by a partition. Vronsky is going to the stables to see Bryansky about the horses and bring him some money for some horses. keywords: petritsky; vronsky cache: part_02_chapter_020.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_020.txt item: #55 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_021 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 21) date: 1877 words: 1966 flesch: 81 summary: Vronsky's mare was to have been taken the previous day, but he hadn't seen her yet. He didn't ride her for exercise himself, but had put her in the charge of the trainer. Vronsky wants to see his chestnut Gladiator, his chief rival. keywords: englishman; mare; vronsky cache: part_02_chapter_021.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_021.txt item: #56 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_022 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 22) date: 1877 words: 1941 flesch: 83 summary: The rain did not last long and Vronsky arrived at the mistress' house before the races. She was alone and he wanted to surprise her. Alexey Alexandrovitch, who had recently returned from a foreign watering place, had not moved from Petersburg. keywords: child; feeling; vronsky cache: part_02_chapter_022.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_022.txt item: #57 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_023 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 23) date: 1877 words: 1067 flesch: 83 summary: Anna is in a relationship with another man. Vronsky wants her to tell him everything and leave him. She is afraid he will accuse her of being involved in criminal intrigues and disgrace her and her son. He will take all necessary steps to prevent scandal. keywords: son cache: part_02_chapter_023.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_023.txt item: #58 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_024 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 24) date: 1877 words: 2309 flesch: 79 summary: Vronsky was late for the race. He was distracted by his feelings for Anna. He went to Bryansky's to wait for the interview with Anna, but he was late. He galloped back in time for the meeting with Bryansky. keywords: frou; race; vronsky cache: part_02_chapter_024.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_024.txt item: #59 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_025 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 25) date: 1877 words: 2064 flesch: 80 summary: There were 17 officers riding in the race. The race course was a large three-mile ring of the form of an ellipse in front of the pavilion. On this course nine obstacles had been arranged: the stream, a big and solid barrier five feet high, a dry ditch, a ditch full of water, a precipitous slope, an Irish barricade, a mound fenced with brushwood, two more ditches filled with water, and one dry one. The first obstacle was a dammed-up stream, seven feet in breadth, which the racers could leap or wade through. keywords: frou; mare; vronsky cache: part_02_chapter_025.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_025.txt item: #60 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_026 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 26) date: 1877 words: 1890 flesch: 66 summary: Alexey Alexandrovitch and his wife Anna had a conversation after the party at Princess Tverskaya's. Alexey was busily busy in the spring and in July. His wife moved to a villa out of town for the summer, while he remained in Petersburg. He was a little colder to his wife. He had a lot of official business that year. keywords: alexandrovitch; alexey; wife cache: part_02_chapter_026.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_026.txt item: #61 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_027 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 27) date: 1877 words: 1000 flesch: 87 summary: Alexey Alexandrovitch will stay the night with Mihail Vassilievitch and go for a walk with Anna and Seryozha. Anna will bring tea for him and his wife, Sludin, and they will go together. keywords: alexey cache: part_02_chapter_027.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_027.txt item: #62 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_028 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 28) date: 1877 words: 1509 flesch: 75 summary: Anna was sitting in the pavilion beside Betsy when Alexey Alexandrovitch arrived at the race-course. She followed him in the surging crowd in the midst of which he was moving. He was looking for his wife, but she didn't notice him. Princess Betsy called to him and he went into the pavilions. keywords: alexandrovitch; alexey cache: part_02_chapter_028.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_028.txt item: #63 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_029 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 29) date: 1877 words: 1452 flesch: 86 summary: After Vronsky fell to the ground, Anna lost her head and started to cry. Alexey Alexandrovitch offered her his arm to go, but she refused. An officer galloped up and made an announcement to the Tsar. Anna hid her face in her fan. keywords: alexey; anna cache: part_02_chapter_029.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_029.txt item: #64 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_030 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 30) date: 1877 words: 1307 flesch: 66 summary: The Shtcherbatsky family moved to a watering-place in Germany. They were introduced to the society of a Moscow lady, Marya Yevgenyevna Rtishtcheva and her daughter, who Kitty disliked, and a Moscow colonel, whom Kitty had known since childhood. keywords: kitty; people cache: part_02_chapter_030.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_030.txt item: #65 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_031 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 31) date: 1877 words: 1002 flesch: 80 summary: Kitty was walking with her mother and the Moscow colonel. Varenka was walking up and down the whole length of the arcade with a blind Frenchwoman. Kitty wanted to make an acquaintance with her, but the princess wanted to keep her out of the way. Levin came towards them with his companion and a German doctor. He was shouting at the doctor. A crowd gathered about them. The colonel joined the crowd. keywords: varenka cache: part_02_chapter_031.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_031.txt item: #66 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_032 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 32) date: 1877 words: 1760 flesch: 81 summary: Madame Stahl's only child died and she had to raise Varenka, the daughter of the chief cook of the Imperial Household in Petersburg, who was brought up by Madame Stahl after her separation from her husband. The princess found nothing to object to in her daughter's intimacy with her. Kitty became more and more fascinated by her friend and asked her to sing in the evening. keywords: kitty; varenka cache: part_02_chapter_032.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_032.txt item: #67 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_033 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 33) date: 1877 words: 1677 flesch: 74 summary: Kitty made the acquaintance with Madame Stahl and Varenka. She found a spiritual side to the religion she had known only in litanies and all-night services at the Widow's Home and learning by heart Slavonic texts with the priest. She noticed that when she had found a Catholic priest with her, she had studiously kept her face in the shadow of the lampshade and smiled in a peculiar way. keywords: kitty; madame; varenka cache: part_02_chapter_033.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_033.txt item: #68 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_034 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 34) date: 1877 words: 2096 flesch: 83 summary: Prince Shtcherbatsky went to Carlsbad to drink the waters. He came back to his wife and daughter. The prince and the princess's views on life abroad were completely opposed. The princess tried abroad to be like a European fashionable lady, whereas the prince was sick of European life and kept to his Russian habits. keywords: kitty; madame; prince cache: part_02_chapter_034.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_034.txt item: #69 of 249 id: part_02_chapter_035 author: Tolstoy title: Part 2 (Chapter 35) date: 1877 words: 1916 flesch: 90 summary: The prince invited the colonel, Marya Yevgenyevna, Varenka, and the Shtcherbatskys to have coffee with him and his family. They had lunch in the garden under the chestnut tree. The princess sat at a table with a coffeepot, bread-and-butter, cheese, and cold game. The prince spread out near him his purchases, carved boxes, knick-knacks, paper-knives, etc. keywords: kitty; prince; varenka cache: part_02_chapter_035.txt plain text: part_02_chapter_035.txt item: #70 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_001 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 1) date: 1877 words: 1423 flesch: 60 summary: Sergey Ivanovitch Koznishev came to stay in the country with his brother Konstantin Levin towards the end of May to enjoy a rest from mental work. Konstantin is uncomfortable with Sergey's attitude to the country and to the peasants. keywords: brother; konstantin cache: part_03_chapter_001.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_001.txt item: #71 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_002 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 2) date: 1877 words: 1091 flesch: 84 summary: Agafea Mihalovna, the old nurse and housekeeper, slipped and fell and sprained her wrist. The district doctor, a talkative young medical student, came to see her. Sergey Ivanovitch Koznishev wanted to go with a fishing rod to the river. Konstantin Levin, whose presence was needed in the plough land and meadows, wanted to take his brother in the trap. keywords: grass; levin cache: part_03_chapter_002.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_002.txt item: #72 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_003 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 3) date: 1877 words: 2288 flesch: 76 summary: Sergey Ivanovitch wants his brother Levin to get involved in the district business. Levin doesn't want to do it, because he doesn't have the qualifications for it. Sergey is angry with him for not going to the meetings. keywords: ivanovitch; levin; sergey cache: part_03_chapter_003.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_003.txt item: #73 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_004 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 4) date: 1877 words: 1990 flesch: 85 summary: Konstantin Levin and Sergey Ivanovitch are going to mow the meadow in Kalinov meadow tomorrow. Konstantin sends his scythe to Tit to get the mowers for the morrow. keywords: levin; tit cache: part_03_chapter_004.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_004.txt item: #74 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_005 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 5) date: 1877 words: 2018 flesch: 84 summary: After lunch Levin stood between the old man and the young peasant mowing the grass. The old man invited Levin to be his neighbor. The young peasant was mowing this summer for the first time. In the very heat of the day the mowing did not seem such hard work to Levin. keywords: grass; levin; man cache: part_03_chapter_005.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_005.txt item: #75 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_006 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 6) date: 1877 words: 1269 flesch: 89 summary: Levin mowed the whole meadow in Mashkin Upland. Sergey Ivanovitch was drinking iced lemon and water in his own room, looking through the reviews and papers. Levin rushed into the room with his wet and matted hair sticking to his forehead, and his back and chest grimed and moist, because he had been mowing the whole day. It was raining. keywords: ivanovitch; levin cache: part_03_chapter_006.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_006.txt item: #76 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_007 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 7) date: 1877 words: 1533 flesch: 70 summary: Stepan Arkadyevitch was in Petersburg for an official duty. He spent his days at the races and in the summer villas. Dolly and the children moved to Ergushovo, the estate that had been her dowry, and in spring the forest had been sold. The old prince had had the lodge done up and built on to. The lodge was old and dilapidated. Stepan looked over the house and gave Darya Alexandrovna instructions about the necessary repairs. keywords: alexandrovna; children; country cache: part_03_chapter_007.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_007.txt item: #77 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_008 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 8) date: 1877 words: 1786 flesch: 76 summary: Darya Alexandrovna's children had not taken the sacrament for nearly a year, so she decided to take them now in the summer. The children were dressed in their new dresses and the priest waited for them for the massthe children. keywords: alexandrovna; children; darya cache: part_03_chapter_008.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_008.txt item: #78 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_009 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 9) date: 1877 words: 1118 flesch: 78 summary: Darya Alexandrovna and her children are on their way home. The coachman informs them that the master of Pokrovskoe is coming. Darya's brother, Stiva, wrote to her that Levin is staying with her. She is glad to see him. Levin is embarrassed to be asked to help her. keywords: alexandrovna; darya cache: part_03_chapter_009.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_009.txt item: #79 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_010 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 10) date: 1877 words: 1563 flesch: 84 summary: Kitty wrote to Dolly that she misses quiet and solitude. Kitty is quite well again. Darya Alexandrovna is angry with Levin because he didn't visit her and Konstantin Dmitrievitch when he was in Moscow. keywords: alexandrovna cache: part_03_chapter_010.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_010.txt item: #80 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_011 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 11) date: 1877 words: 1191 flesch: 78 summary: Levin took over the management of his sister's estate. The chief source of income on the estate was from the riverside meadows. The previous years the hay had been bought by the peasants for twenty roubles the three acres. Levin fixed the price at 25 roubles. He arranged to have the grass cut, partly by hired labor and partly at a payment of a certain proportion of the crop. The first year the meadows had yielded a profit almost double. This year the peasants were doing all the mowing for a third of the hay crop. They invited the counting-house clerk over, had divided the crop in his presence, and raked together 11 stacks as the owner's share. keywords: hay; levin cache: part_03_chapter_011.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_011.txt item: #81 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_012 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 12) date: 1877 words: 1541 flesch: 85 summary: The load was tied on. Ivan jumped down and took the horse by the bridle. Ivan drove off to the road and fell into line with the other loaded carts. The peasant women, with their rakes on their shoulders and chattering with ringing, merry voices, walked behind the hay cart. The women, all singing, came close to Levin and he felt as though a storm were swooping down upon him with a thunder of merriment. Levin felt envious of this health and mirthfulness and longed to take part in the expression of this joy of life. keywords: levin; life; night cache: part_03_chapter_012.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_012.txt item: #82 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_013 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 13) date: 1877 words: 2524 flesch: 64 summary: Alexey Alexandrovitch has a problem with emotional disturbance caused by tears. Anna cried when she told him about her relationship with Vronsky. He was angry at her, but later he felt pity for her. He will let her know his decision tomorrow. keywords: alexandrovitch; alexey; wife cache: part_03_chapter_013.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_013.txt item: #83 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_014 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 14) date: 1877 words: 1708 flesch: 58 summary: Alexey Alexandrovitch is writing a letter to his wife in French. He wants her to return to Petersburg as quickly as possible, not later than Tuesday, so that their family can continue as it has done in the past. keywords: alexandrovitch; alexey; department cache: part_03_chapter_014.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_014.txt item: #84 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_015 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 15) date: 1877 words: 2127 flesch: 85 summary: Anna had contradicted Vronsky when he told her their position was impossible. On the way home from the races she had told her husband the truth in a moment of excitement. After her husband had left her, she was glad, because now everything was made clear. She didn't tell Alexey Alexandrovitch what had passed between her and her husband. keywords: husband; son cache: part_03_chapter_015.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_015.txt item: #85 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_016 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 16) date: 1877 words: 1454 flesch: 87 summary: Anna is preparing for Alexey Alexandrovitch's arrival at the summer villa. Annushka called her attention to the rattle of a carriage. Anna's husband's courier arrived with a letter from Alexey. Anna read the letter with trembling fingers. keywords: letter; love cache: part_03_chapter_016.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_016.txt item: #86 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_017 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 17) date: 1877 words: 1932 flesch: 85 summary: Anna was invited to a croquet party by Princess Tverskaya. Anna didn't want to go, but she was eager to see Vronsky. She arrived at the party earlier than the other guests. She heard bells ringing to announce her arrival ahead of her. Anna's footman handed her a note from the count for the princess. Anna was in the garden. keywords: anna; betsy; princess cache: part_03_chapter_017.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_017.txt item: #87 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_018 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 18) date: 1877 words: 1563 flesch: 86 summary: Sappho Shtoltz and Vaska are guests at Anna's party. Anna had never met them before. Vaska followed Sappho into the drawing-room and followed her about as though he were chained to her. Betsy introduced Vaska to Anna. keywords: anna; sappho cache: part_03_chapter_018.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_018.txt item: #88 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_019 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 19) date: 1877 words: 1278 flesch: 64 summary: Vronsky hated irregularity. In his youth in the Corps of Pages, he had been refused to borrow money. He used to put his affairs in order about five times a year. Vronsky's debts amounted to 17,000 roubles and he left one thousand eight hundred roubles. keywords: money; vronsky cache: part_03_chapter_019.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_019.txt item: #89 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_020 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 20) date: 1877 words: 1283 flesch: 73 summary: Vronsky's life was happy because he adhered to a code of principles. Anna was an honorable woman who had bestowed her love upon him and he loved her. Anna's husband was a superfluous and tiresome person. Anna loved Vronsky. keywords: principles; vronsky cache: part_03_chapter_020.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_020.txt item: #90 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_021 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 21) date: 1877 words: 2386 flesch: 85 summary: Serpuhovskoy came to the colonel's party. Vronsky didn't know it was him. The colonel, Demin, had taken a large country house. The party was in the courtyard with a band of singers in white linen coats, a barrel of vodka, and the robust, good-humored figure of the colonel. keywords: colonel; serpuhovskoy; vronsky cache: part_03_chapter_021.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_021.txt item: #91 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_022 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 22) date: 1877 words: 2035 flesch: 87 summary: Vronsky got into Yashvin's hired fly and asked the driver to drive as quickly as possible to get him to the interview. He sat in one corner of the car and relaxed in the front seat. He enjoyed the slight ache in his leg and the muscular sensation of movement in his chest. keywords: face; letter; time cache: part_03_chapter_022.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_022.txt item: #92 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_023 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 23) date: 1877 words: 1454 flesch: 73 summary: Alexey Alexandrovitch was a member of the Commission of the 2nd of June. He had several points to bring before the meeting in regard to the Commission for the Reorganization of the Native Tribes. His opponent, Stremov, who was also a member, tried to stop him, but Alexey's motion was carried. keywords: alexandrovitch; alexey cache: part_03_chapter_023.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_023.txt item: #93 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_024 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 24) date: 1877 words: 1549 flesch: 69 summary: Levin's way of managing his land revolted him and he lost interest in farming. He saw farming as a struggle between him and the laborers. He could not help feeling that the aim of his energy was a most unworthy one. keywords: levin; work cache: part_03_chapter_024.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_024.txt item: #94 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_025 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 25) date: 1877 words: 1290 flesch: 83 summary: Levin was going to Nikolay Ivanovitch Sviazhsky. He stopped at a well-to-do peasant's to feed his horses. The old man asked Levin to come into the parlor. A cleanly dressed young woman was scrubbing the floor in the new outer room. keywords: levin; man cache: part_03_chapter_025.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_025.txt item: #95 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_026 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 26) date: 1877 words: 1895 flesch: 62 summary: Sviazhsky, the marshal of Levin's district, invited him for shooting. Levin's sister-in-law, Kitty Shtcherbatskaya, lived in his house. Levin was in love with her, but wanted to try himself to the test in regard to her. keywords: levin; life; sviazhsky cache: part_03_chapter_026.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_026.txt item: #96 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_027 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 27) date: 1877 words: 2375 flesch: 78 summary: Nikolay Ivanovitch Sviazhsky lives in his own house, neither bought nor hired. The landowner manages his land without extreme measures. Mihail Petrovitch's management rests on getting the money ready for the autumn taxes. keywords: labor; landowner; levin; sviazhsky cache: part_03_chapter_027.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_027.txt item: #97 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_028 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 28) date: 1877 words: 1840 flesch: 76 summary: Levin was bored with his evening with the ladies. He wanted to solve the problem of managing his land. Before going to bed, he went to his host's study to get the books on the labor question that Sviazhskysky had offered him. Sviazhsky's study was a huge room surrounded by bookcases and a writing table. Levin was looking through the reviews. keywords: levin; schools; sviazhsky cache: part_03_chapter_028.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_028.txt item: #98 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_029 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 29) date: 1877 words: 1852 flesch: 58 summary: Levin's plan to take part as shareholder with his laborers in each agricultural undertaking had many difficulties. The peasants were too busy with their work to consider the advantages and disadvantages of the proposed scheme. Ivan, the cowherd, was in complete sympathy with Levin's proposal to share the profits of the cattle-yard. keywords: land; levin; peasants cache: part_03_chapter_029.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_029.txt item: #99 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_030 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 30) date: 1877 words: 1432 flesch: 75 summary: Levin's dream was to work out the whole subject theoretically and to complete his book. He was waiting for the delivery of his wheat to receive the money for it and go abroad. The rains prevented the harvesting of the corn and potatoes left in the fields and stopped all work. The weather got worse and worse. On the 30th of September the sun came out in the morning and Levin began making final preparations for his journey. keywords: agafea; levin; work cache: part_03_chapter_030.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_030.txt item: #100 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_031 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 31) date: 1877 words: 1590 flesch: 84 summary: Levin loved his brother Nikolay, but being with him was always a torture. Levin was under the influence of Agafea Mihalovna's hint and was in a troubled mood. Nikolay had been ill all the time, but now he is feeling better. keywords: brother; levin cache: part_03_chapter_031.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_031.txt item: #101 of 249 id: part_03_chapter_032 author: Tolstoy title: Part 3 (Chapter 32) date: 1877 words: 1189 flesch: 80 summary: Konstantin and Nikolay's relationship deteriorated. Konstantin tried to explain his political ideas to his brother Nikolay, but Nikolay accused him of using them to justify his own political views. Konstantin's work distracted him from the conversation. keywords: brother; levin cache: part_03_chapter_032.txt plain text: part_03_chapter_032.txt item: #102 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_001 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 1) date: 1877 words: 2531 flesch: 79 summary: Princess Shtcherbatskaya and Levin are getting married. The trousseau will be divided into two parts. The smaller part will be ready now and the larger part made later. After the wedding, the young people will go to the country. Levin has work in the country, so he will leave Moscow after the wedding. keywords: levin; priest; thought cache: part_04_chapter_001.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_001.txt item: #103 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_002 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 2) date: 1877 words: 1970 flesch: 87 summary: Levin didn't see his betrothed on the day of the wedding. He dined at his hotel with three bachelor friends. They were Sergey Ivanovitch, Katavasov, a university friend and Tchirikov, his best man. keywords: freedom; levin; love cache: part_04_chapter_002.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_002.txt item: #104 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_003 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 3) date: 1877 words: 1066 flesch: 81 summary: A crowd of people was thronging around the church for the wedding. More than twenty carriages had already been drawn up in ranks along the street by the police. The door to the church has been opened more than ten times. The guests and the outside public had by now passed through the phases of anticipation. keywords: bridegroom; shirt cache: part_04_chapter_003.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_003.txt item: #105 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_004 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 4) date: 1877 words: 2224 flesch: 80 summary: Levin was late for his wedding. Sergey Ivanovitch and Stepan Arkadyevitch made fun of him. They asked him to choose between lighting candles that have been lit before and candles that haven't. Levin decided to light candles that had never been lit. keywords: levin; life; priest cache: part_04_chapter_004.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_004.txt item: #106 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_005 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 5) date: 1877 words: 973 flesch: 82 summary: There was a wedding in the church in Moscow. Madame Korsunskaya and Madame Trubetskaya were married in the evening. Count Siniavin wanted to be the best man for the tenth time, but Princess Tcharskaya took the post. Shtcherbatsky told the old maid of honor, Madame Nikolaeva, that he meant to put the crown on Kitty's chignon for luck. keywords: madame; women cache: part_04_chapter_005.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_005.txt item: #107 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_006 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 6) date: 1877 words: 717 flesch: 76 summary: After the traditional questions, the bridal pair were asked if they wanted to enter upon matrimony and if they were pledged to anyone else. The choir sang a complicated and elaborate psalm and the priest pointed them to the pink silk rug. The one who steps first on the rug will be the head of the house. Kitty couldn't understand the meaning of the prayer. The priest put on the wedding crowns. keywords: priest cache: part_04_chapter_006.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_006.txt item: #108 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_007 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 7) date: 1877 words: 1957 flesch: 75 summary: Vronsky and Anna had been traveling for three months in Europe. They visited Venice, Rome and Naples. They had just arrived in a small Italian town where they intended to stay some time. Vronsky had taken the best rooms. A courier had been sent and the business about the palazzo had been arranged. The steward was prepared to sign the agreement. The head waiter had been stopped by a Russian count. The count was Golenishtchev, a comrade of Vronski's in the Corps of Pages. keywords: anna; golenishtchev; vronsky cache: part_04_chapter_007.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_007.txt item: #109 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_008 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 8) date: 1877 words: 1295 flesch: 65 summary: Anna is happy and full of the joy of life after her illness. After her illness she had a reconciliation with her husband, its breakdown, the news of Vronsky's wound, his visit, the preparations for divorce, the departure from her husband's house, the parting from her son, and she woke up alone with Vronskiy abroad. keywords: anna; thought cache: part_04_chapter_008.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_008.txt item: #110 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_009 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 9) date: 1877 words: 1211 flesch: 67 summary: Vronsky and Golenishtchev moved into the palazzo. Vronsky painted studies from nature under the guidance of an Italian professor of painting and studied medival Italian life. He painted a picture of Christ before Pilate with all the realism of the new school. keywords: anna; golenishtchev; vronsky cache: part_04_chapter_009.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_009.txt item: #111 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_010 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 10) date: 1877 words: 1029 flesch: 81 summary: The artist Mihailov was at work when the cards of Count Vronsky and Golenishtchev were brought to him. On getting home he flew into a rage with his wife for not having managed to put off the landlady, who had been asking for money. He was dissatisfied with his previous sketch. He found the dirty paper with the discarded sketch on it and drew a new one. keywords: figure; picture cache: part_04_chapter_010.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_010.txt item: #112 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_011 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 11) date: 1877 words: 1982 flesch: 69 summary: Mihailov is preparing his work for a meeting with Vronsky, Golenishtchev and Madame Karenina. He is afraid they will criticise his work. He suspects them of being amateurs and connoisseurs. keywords: golenishtchev; mihailov; picture cache: part_04_chapter_011.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_011.txt item: #113 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_012 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 12) date: 1877 words: 759 flesch: 79 summary: Anna and Vronsky were admiring a picture that Mihailov had painted three years ago. He had forgotten all the agonies and the ecstasies he had lived through with that picture when for several months it had been the one thought haunting him day and night. The enthusiasm over this picture stirred some of the old feeling for it, but he feared and disliked this waste of feeling for things past. He tried to draw his visitors away to a third picture, but it was for sale. keywords: picture cache: part_04_chapter_012.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_012.txt item: #114 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_013 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 13) date: 1877 words: 1069 flesch: 67 summary: Mihailov sold Vronsky his picture and agreed to paint a portrait of Anna. From the fifth sitting the portrait impressed everyone. Anna was grateful for the portrait. Mihilov behaved with hostile courtesy. He would never stay to dinner, nor come except for the sittings. keywords: vronsky cache: part_04_chapter_013.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_013.txt item: #115 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_014 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 14) date: 1877 words: 1750 flesch: 68 summary: Levin has been married to Kitty for three months. He is happy, but not in the way he had expected to be. He had imagined that his future life with his wife would be the happiest enjoyment of love, with nothing to hinder and no petty cares to distract. He was surprised that in the first weeks of their married life Kitty was busy with domestic tasks. keywords: levin; life cache: part_04_chapter_014.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_014.txt item: #116 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_015 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 15) date: 1877 words: 1548 flesch: 73 summary: Levin and his wife had just come back from Moscow. He was writing a new chapter on the causes of the present disastrous condition of agriculture in Russia. He felt the center of his attention had passed to something else and he looked at his work differently. keywords: life; work cache: part_04_chapter_015.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_015.txt item: #117 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_016 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 16) date: 1877 words: 1215 flesch: 88 summary: Agafea Mihalovna's new mistress, Kitty, made Agafea love her. Dolly took Tanya and Grisha to a children's ball at the Sarmatskys. Marya Nikolaevna, Levin's brother's ex-mistress, sent him a letter. keywords: brother; kitty cache: part_04_chapter_016.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_016.txt item: #118 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_017 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 17) date: 1877 words: 1760 flesch: 80 summary: Nikolay Levin and his wife were staying in a hotel in a provincial town. They were dissatisfied with the cleanliness of the hotel and the fact that there was only one decent room for them. When they arrived, Nikolay had to take care of Marya Nikolaevna, who was ill. keywords: brother; levin; room cache: part_04_chapter_017.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_017.txt item: #119 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_018 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 18) date: 1877 words: 1342 flesch: 81 summary: Levin couldn't look calmly at his sick brother. Kitty pitied the sick man and immediately set to work to help him. She sent for the doctor, sent to the chemist's, set the maid to sweep and dust and scrub, and washed and washed something. keywords: levin; man cache: part_04_chapter_018.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_018.txt item: #120 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_019 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 19) date: 1877 words: 1366 flesch: 77 summary: Levin thought about his wife and Agafea Mihalovna as he talked to her that evening. Both knew without a doubt what life was and what was death. Levin and other men like him were afraid of death and didn't know how to deal with the dying. keywords: death; levin cache: part_04_chapter_019.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_019.txt item: #121 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_020 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 20) date: 1877 words: 2839 flesch: 82 summary: Nikolay Levin's sick brother received the sacrament and extreme unction. The next day the sick man became suddenly much better and asked for a cutlet. Levin and Kitty were in a state of excitement, happy, though fearful. keywords: kitty; levin; man cache: part_04_chapter_020.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_020.txt item: #122 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_021 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 21) date: 1877 words: 1463 flesch: 66 summary: Alexey Alexandrovitch's wife left him for another man. For the first two days after his wife's departure, Alexey went to dinner in the dining-room as usual. Alexey tried to maintain an appearance of composure and indifference. keywords: alexandrovitch; alexey; wife cache: part_04_chapter_021.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_021.txt item: #123 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_022 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 22) date: 1877 words: 1543 flesch: 74 summary: Alexey Alexandrovitch had forgotten the Countess Lidia Ivanovna, but she had not forgotten him. She came to him at the bitterest moment of his lonely despair. She found him as he was sitting in his study with his head in his hands. He is unwell and cannot find the strength to support her. keywords: alexandrovitch; alexey cache: part_04_chapter_022.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_022.txt item: #124 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_023 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 23) date: 1877 words: 1066 flesch: 69 summary: The Countess Lidia Ivanovna was married to a wealthy man of high rank. She was in love with several people at once, both men and women. After her husband left her, she fell in love again with Karenin. keywords: lidia; love cache: part_04_chapter_023.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_023.txt item: #125 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_024 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 24) date: 1877 words: 1642 flesch: 71 summary: The levee was drawing to a close. People gossiped about the newly bestowed honors and the changes in the positions of the higher functionaries. Countess Marya Borissovna should be Minister of War and Princess Vatkovskaya Commander-in-Chief. Maid of honor is among the adjutants and her assistant is Karenin. Madame Karenina is in Petersburg. keywords: alexandrovitch; alexey; ivanovna cache: part_04_chapter_024.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_024.txt item: #126 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_025 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 25) date: 1877 words: 1040 flesch: 75 summary: Alexey Alexandrovitch came to the Countess Lidia Ivanovna's boudoir to talk to her about the letter she had received from him. She had forgiven him for everything, but he didn't understand her. keywords: countess; lidia cache: part_04_chapter_025.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_025.txt item: #127 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_026 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 26) date: 1877 words: 1135 flesch: 83 summary: Kapitonitch came back from his walk the day before his birthday and gave his overcoat to the hall-porter. Seryozha took great interest in him. Kapitonitch's father, Alexey Alexandrovitch, saw the bandaged clerk and announced him. The clerk had already been seven times to ask some favor of Alexey. Korney took something from Countess Lidia Ivanovna for Alexey's birthday. keywords: porter; seryozha cache: part_04_chapter_026.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_026.txt item: #128 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_027 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 27) date: 1877 words: 1732 flesch: 79 summary: Seryozha's favorite pastime was looking for his mother during his walks. He didn't believe in death generally and in her death in particular, despite what Lidia Ivanovna had told him and his father confirmed. After he had been told she was dead, he still looked for her when out for a walk. Now waiting for his father, he cut all around the edge of the table with his penknife, dreaming of her. Vassily Lukitch woke him up. keywords: father; seryozha cache: part_04_chapter_027.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_027.txt item: #129 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_028 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 28) date: 1877 words: 1449 flesch: 79 summary: On arriving in Petersburg, Vronsky and Anna stayed at one of the best hotels. His mother and sister-in-law asked him about his stay abroad, but didn't mention his connection with Anna. His brother came to see him the next morning and asked about Anna. Alexey told him directly that he wanted to arrange a divorce and then to marry Anna. Anna was invited to visit her brother at his estate. keywords: anna; vronsky cache: part_04_chapter_028.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_028.txt item: #130 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_029 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 29) date: 1877 words: 1990 flesch: 88 summary: Anna wanted to see her son in Petersburg, but it was not easy to arrange the meeting. She wrote to the commissionaire to ask for permission to see him, but the answer was cruel and unexpected. Anna was humiliated and sent a letter to her husband. keywords: anna; seryozha; son cache: part_04_chapter_029.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_029.txt item: #131 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_030 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 30) date: 1877 words: 1285 flesch: 87 summary: Vassily Lukitch didn't know who the lady who had left her husband was. He had to get Seryozha up at the appointed time. The lady's mother and her child were in the house. Vassily wanted to talk to Alexey Alexandrovitch, but the embraces of the mother and child and the sound of their voices made him change his mind. keywords: mother; nurse cache: part_04_chapter_030.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_030.txt item: #132 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_031 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 31) date: 1877 words: 1584 flesch: 84 summary: Anna is alone in her hotel room after seeing her son. The French maid suggests that she should dress. The Italian nurse brings the plump, well-fed little baby to Anna. Anna loves the baby more than she loved her first child. keywords: vronsky; yashvin cache: part_04_chapter_031.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_031.txt item: #133 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_032 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 32) date: 1877 words: 1021 flesch: 86 summary: Anna will come to Princess Betsy between 6 and 9 o'clock to say good-bye. Patti will go with her to the princess to get a box to hear her talk to her, as suggested by Tushkevitch. keywords: anna cache: part_04_chapter_032.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_032.txt item: #134 of 249 id: part_04_chapter_033 author: Tolstoy title: Part 4 (Chapter 33) date: 1877 words: 2742 flesch: 83 summary: Anna went to the theater. Vronsky is angry with her. Yashvin advises him to buy Lankovsky's Powerful. Anna will go to the stalls. Vronksky will take Kruzin's stall. keywords: anna; box; vronsky; yashvin cache: part_04_chapter_033.txt plain text: part_04_chapter_033.txt item: #135 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_001 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter)) 1) date: 1877 words: 2531 flesch: 79 summary: Princess Shtcherbatskaya and Levin are getting married. The trousseau will be divided into two parts. The smaller part will be ready now and the larger part made later. After the wedding, the young people will go to the country. Levin has work in the country, so he will leave Moscow after the wedding. keywords: levin; priest; thought cache: part_05_chapter_001.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_001.txt item: #136 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_002 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 2) date: 1877 words: 1970 flesch: 87 summary: Levin didn't see his betrothed on the day of the wedding. He dined at his hotel with three bachelor friends. They were Sergey Ivanovitch, Katavasov, a university friend and Tchirikov, his best man. keywords: freedom; levin; love cache: part_05_chapter_002.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_002.txt item: #137 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_003 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 3) date: 1877 words: 1066 flesch: 81 summary: A crowd of people was thronging around the church for the wedding. More than twenty carriages had already been drawn up in ranks along the street by the police. The door to the church has been opened more than ten times. The guests and the outside public had by now passed through the phases of anticipation. keywords: bridegroom; shirt cache: part_05_chapter_003.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_003.txt item: #138 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_004 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 4) date: 1877 words: 2224 flesch: 80 summary: Levin was late for his wedding. Sergey Ivanovitch and Stepan Arkadyevitch made fun of him. They asked him to choose between lighting candles that have been lit before and candles that haven't. Levin decided to light candles that had never been lit. keywords: levin; life; priest cache: part_05_chapter_004.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_004.txt item: #139 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_005 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 5) date: 1877 words: 973 flesch: 82 summary: There was a wedding in the church in Moscow. Madame Korsunskaya and Madame Trubetskaya were married in the evening. Count Siniavin wanted to be the best man for the tenth time, but Princess Tcharskaya took the post. Shtcherbatsky told the old maid of honor, Madame Nikolaeva, that he meant to put the crown on Kitty's chignon for luck. keywords: madame; women cache: part_05_chapter_005.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_005.txt item: #140 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_006 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 6) date: 1877 words: 717 flesch: 76 summary: After the traditional questions, the bridal pair were asked if they wanted to enter upon matrimony and if they were pledged to anyone else. The choir sang a complicated and elaborate psalm and the priest pointed them to the pink silk rug. The one who steps first on the rug will be the head of the house. Kitty couldn't understand the meaning of the prayer. The priest put on the wedding crowns. keywords: priest cache: part_05_chapter_006.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_006.txt item: #141 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_007 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 7) date: 1877 words: 1957 flesch: 75 summary: Vronsky and Anna had been traveling for three months in Europe. They visited Venice, Rome and Naples. They had just arrived in a small Italian town where they intended to stay some time. Vronsky had taken the best rooms. A courier had been sent and the business about the palazzo had been arranged. The steward was prepared to sign the agreement. The head waiter had been stopped by a Russian count. The count was Golenishtchev, a comrade of Vronski's in the Corps of Pages. keywords: anna; golenishtchev; vronsky cache: part_05_chapter_007.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_007.txt item: #142 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_008 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 8) date: 1877 words: 1295 flesch: 65 summary: Anna is happy and full of the joy of life after her illness. After her illness she had a reconciliation with her husband, its breakdown, the news of Vronsky's wound, his visit, the preparations for divorce, the departure from her husband's house, the parting from her son, and she woke up alone with Vronskiy abroad. keywords: anna; thought cache: part_05_chapter_008.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_008.txt item: #143 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_009 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 9) date: 1877 words: 1211 flesch: 67 summary: Vronsky and Golenishtchev moved into the palazzo. Vronsky painted studies from nature under the guidance of an Italian professor of painting and studied medival Italian life. He painted a picture of Christ before Pilate with all the realism of the new school. keywords: anna; golenishtchev; vronsky cache: part_05_chapter_009.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_009.txt item: #144 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_010 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 10) date: 1877 words: 1029 flesch: 81 summary: The artist Mihailov was at work when the cards of Count Vronsky and Golenishtchev were brought to him. On getting home he flew into a rage with his wife for not having managed to put off the landlady, who had been asking for money. He was dissatisfied with his previous sketch. He found the dirty paper with the discarded sketch on it and drew a new one. keywords: figure; picture cache: part_05_chapter_010.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_010.txt item: #145 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_011 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 11) date: 1877 words: 1982 flesch: 69 summary: Mihailov is preparing his work for a meeting with Vronsky, Golenishtchev and Madame Karenina. He is afraid they will criticise his work. He suspects them of being amateurs and connoisseurs. keywords: golenishtchev; mihailov; picture cache: part_05_chapter_011.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_011.txt item: #146 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_012 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 12) date: 1877 words: 759 flesch: 79 summary: Anna and Vronsky were admiring a picture that Mihailov had painted three years ago. He had forgotten all the agonies and the ecstasies he had lived through with that picture when for several months it had been the one thought haunting him day and night. The enthusiasm over this picture stirred some of the old feeling for it, but he feared and disliked this waste of feeling for things past. He tried to draw his visitors away to a third picture, but it was for sale. keywords: picture cache: part_05_chapter_012.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_012.txt item: #147 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_013 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 13) date: 1877 words: 1069 flesch: 67 summary: Mihailov sold Vronsky his picture and agreed to paint a portrait of Anna. From the fifth sitting the portrait impressed everyone. Anna was grateful for the portrait. Mihilov behaved with hostile courtesy. He would never stay to dinner, nor come except for the sittings. keywords: vronsky cache: part_05_chapter_013.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_013.txt item: #148 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_014 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 14) date: 1877 words: 1750 flesch: 68 summary: Levin has been married to Kitty for three months. He is happy, but not in the way he had expected to be. He had imagined that his future life with his wife would be the happiest enjoyment of love, with nothing to hinder and no petty cares to distract. He was surprised that in the first weeks of their married life Kitty was busy with domestic tasks. keywords: levin; life cache: part_05_chapter_014.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_014.txt item: #149 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_015 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 15) date: 1877 words: 1548 flesch: 73 summary: Levin and his wife had just come back from Moscow. He was writing a new chapter on the causes of the present disastrous condition of agriculture in Russia. He felt the center of his attention had passed to something else and he looked at his work differently. keywords: life; work cache: part_05_chapter_015.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_015.txt item: #150 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_016 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 16) date: 1877 words: 1215 flesch: 88 summary: Agafea Mihalovna's new mistress, Kitty, made Agafea love her. Dolly took Tanya and Grisha to a children's ball at the Sarmatskys. Marya Nikolaevna, Levin's brother's ex-mistress, sent him a letter. keywords: brother; kitty cache: part_05_chapter_016.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_016.txt item: #151 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_017 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 17) date: 1877 words: 1760 flesch: 80 summary: Nikolay Levin and his wife were staying in a hotel in a provincial town. They were dissatisfied with the cleanliness of the hotel and the fact that there was only one decent room for them. When they arrived, Nikolay had to take care of Marya Nikolaevna, who was ill. keywords: brother; levin; room cache: part_05_chapter_017.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_017.txt item: #152 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_018 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 18) date: 1877 words: 1342 flesch: 81 summary: Levin couldn't look calmly at his sick brother. Kitty pitied the sick man and immediately set to work to help him. She sent for the doctor, sent to the chemist's, set the maid to sweep and dust and scrub, and washed and washed something. keywords: levin; man cache: part_05_chapter_018.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_018.txt item: #153 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_019 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 19) date: 1877 words: 1366 flesch: 77 summary: Levin thought about his wife and Agafea Mihalovna as he talked to her that evening. Both knew without a doubt what life was and what was death. Levin and other men like him were afraid of death and didn't know how to deal with the dying. keywords: death; levin cache: part_05_chapter_019.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_019.txt item: #154 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_020 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 20) date: 1877 words: 2839 flesch: 82 summary: Nikolay Levin's sick brother received the sacrament and extreme unction. The next day the sick man became suddenly much better and asked for a cutlet. Levin and Kitty were in a state of excitement, happy, though fearful. keywords: kitty; levin; man cache: part_05_chapter_020.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_020.txt item: #155 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_021 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 21) date: 1877 words: 1463 flesch: 66 summary: Alexey Alexandrovitch's wife left him for another man. For the first two days after his wife's departure, Alexey went to dinner in the dining-room as usual. Alexey tried to maintain an appearance of composure and indifference. keywords: alexandrovitch; alexey; wife cache: part_05_chapter_021.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_021.txt item: #156 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_022 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 22) date: 1877 words: 1543 flesch: 74 summary: Alexey Alexandrovitch had forgotten the Countess Lidia Ivanovna, but she had not forgotten him. She came to him at the bitterest moment of his lonely despair. She found him as he was sitting in his study with his head in his hands. He is unwell and cannot find the strength to support her. keywords: alexandrovitch; alexey cache: part_05_chapter_022.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_022.txt item: #157 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_023 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 23) date: 1877 words: 1066 flesch: 69 summary: The Countess Lidia Ivanovna was married to a wealthy man of high rank. She was in love with several people at once, both men and women. After her husband left her, she fell in love again with Karenin. keywords: lidia; love cache: part_05_chapter_023.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_023.txt item: #158 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_024 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 24) date: 1877 words: 1642 flesch: 71 summary: The levee was drawing to a close. People gossiped about the newly bestowed honors and the changes in the positions of the higher functionaries. Countess Marya Borissovna should be Minister of War and Princess Vatkovskaya Commander-in-Chief. Maid of honor is among the adjutants and her assistant is Karenin. Madame Karenina is in Petersburg. keywords: alexandrovitch; alexey; ivanovna cache: part_05_chapter_024.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_024.txt item: #159 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_025 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 25) date: 1877 words: 1040 flesch: 75 summary: Alexey Alexandrovitch came to the Countess Lidia Ivanovna's boudoir to talk to her about the letter she had received from him. She had forgiven him for everything, but he didn't understand her. keywords: countess; lidia cache: part_05_chapter_025.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_025.txt item: #160 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_026 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 26) date: 1877 words: 1135 flesch: 83 summary: Kapitonitch came back from his walk the day before his birthday and gave his overcoat to the hall-porter. Seryozha took great interest in him. Kapitonitch's father, Alexey Alexandrovitch, saw the bandaged clerk and announced him. The clerk had already been seven times to ask some favor of Alexey. Korney took something from Countess Lidia Ivanovna for Alexey's birthday. keywords: porter; seryozha cache: part_05_chapter_026.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_026.txt item: #161 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_027 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 27) date: 1877 words: 1732 flesch: 79 summary: Seryozha's favorite pastime was looking for his mother during his walks. He didn't believe in death generally and in her death in particular, despite what Lidia Ivanovna had told him and his father confirmed. After he had been told she was dead, he still looked for her when out for a walk. Now waiting for his father, he cut all around the edge of the table with his penknife, dreaming of her. Vassily Lukitch woke him up. keywords: father; seryozha cache: part_05_chapter_027.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_027.txt item: #162 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_028 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 28) date: 1877 words: 1449 flesch: 79 summary: On arriving in Petersburg, Vronsky and Anna stayed at one of the best hotels. His mother and sister-in-law asked him about his stay abroad, but didn't mention his connection with Anna. His brother came to see him the next morning and asked about Anna. Alexey told him directly that he wanted to arrange a divorce and then to marry Anna. Anna was invited to visit her brother at his estate. keywords: anna; vronsky cache: part_05_chapter_028.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_028.txt item: #163 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_029 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 29) date: 1877 words: 1990 flesch: 88 summary: Anna wanted to see her son in Petersburg, but it was not easy to arrange the meeting. She wrote to the commissionaire to ask for permission to see him, but the answer was cruel and unexpected. Anna was humiliated and sent a letter to her husband. keywords: anna; seryozha; son cache: part_05_chapter_029.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_029.txt item: #164 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_030 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 30) date: 1877 words: 1285 flesch: 87 summary: Vassily Lukitch didn't know who the lady who had left her husband was. He had to get Seryozha up at the appointed time. The lady's mother and her child were in the house. Vassily wanted to talk to Alexey Alexandrovitch, but the embraces of the mother and child and the sound of their voices made him change his mind. keywords: mother; nurse cache: part_05_chapter_030.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_030.txt item: #165 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_031 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 31) date: 1877 words: 1584 flesch: 84 summary: Anna is alone in her hotel room after seeing her son. The French maid suggests that she should dress. The Italian nurse brings the plump, well-fed little baby to Anna. Anna loves the baby more than she loved her first child. keywords: vronsky; yashvin cache: part_05_chapter_031.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_031.txt item: #166 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_032 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 32) date: 1877 words: 1021 flesch: 86 summary: Anna will come to Princess Betsy between 6 and 9 o'clock to say good-bye. Patti will go with her to the princess to get a box to hear her talk to her, as suggested by Tushkevitch. keywords: anna cache: part_05_chapter_032.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_032.txt item: #167 of 249 id: part_05_chapter_033 author: Tolstoy title: Part 5 (Chapter 33) date: 1877 words: 2742 flesch: 83 summary: Anna went to the theater. Vronsky is angry with her. Yashvin advises him to buy Lankovsky's Powerful. Anna will go to the stalls. Vronksky will take Kruzin's stall. keywords: anna; box; vronsky; yashvin cache: part_05_chapter_033.txt plain text: part_05_chapter_033.txt item: #168 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_001 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 1) date: 1877 words: 1018 flesch: 75 summary: Darya Alexandrovna spent the summer at her sister Kitty Levin's. The house on her own estate was quite in ruins. Stepan Arkadyevitch had to stay in Moscow. Oblonskys, Varenka, Dolly's children and their governess, and Sergey Ivanovitch came to stay at Kitty's. keywords: kitty; varenka cache: part_06_chapter_001.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_001.txt item: #169 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_002 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 2) date: 1877 words: 1967 flesch: 87 summary: Agafea Mihalovna was making raspberry jam on the terrace. Kitty had introduced a new method of making jam without water. Agafea was angry with Kitty for using water. Dolly will skim the jam. keywords: agafea; kitty; mihalovna cache: part_06_chapter_002.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_002.txt item: #170 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_003 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 3) date: 1877 words: 1409 flesch: 89 summary: Kitty and Levin were talking about jam and Sergey Ivanovitch and Varenka when Kitty came in. They were talking to each other about how men make offers. Kitty is pregnant. Levin doesn't know what to think about Sergey. keywords: kitty; levin cache: part_06_chapter_003.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_003.txt item: #171 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_004 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 4) date: 1877 words: 1155 flesch: 72 summary: Sergey Ivanovitch is attracted to Varenka. He is going to pick by himself apart from all the other people and go to the heart of the wood. He will wait for her. She is calling Grisha. keywords: ivanovitch; sergey cache: part_06_chapter_004.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_004.txt item: #172 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_005 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 5) date: 1877 words: 947 flesch: 87 summary: Sergey Ivanovitch and Varvara Andreevna are walking in the woods. She is calling little Masha to come and help her find some mushrooms. She didn't find any, but she did find a fungus. Varenka got up and helped Masha break the fungus into two white halves. keywords: sergey cache: part_06_chapter_005.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_005.txt item: #173 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_006 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 6) date: 1877 words: 1710 flesch: 80 summary: Alexander will not come to the children's tea that evening. Agafea Mihalovna's mother, the princess, will say good-bye to her children if Alexander does not come. Agafka's mother had been miserable since she had married her last and favorite daughter. keywords: kitty; levin cache: part_06_chapter_006.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_006.txt item: #174 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_007 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 7) date: 1877 words: 1959 flesch: 86 summary: Vassenka Veslovsky and Stepan Arkadyevitch want to go shooting tomorrow. Stiva is tired and wants to stay up all night. Dolly wants to go to bed now, but Stepan wants her to stay for supper. keywords: kitty; veslovsky cache: part_06_chapter_007.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_007.txt item: #175 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_008 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 8) date: 1877 words: 1508 flesch: 83 summary: The next day, before the ladies were up, the wagonette and a trap for the shooting party were at the door. Vassenka Veslovsky and Stepan Arkadyevitch were going to go shooting. Laska had been waiting for them since early morning. keywords: arkadyevitch; levin; steps cache: part_06_chapter_008.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_008.txt item: #176 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_009 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 9) date: 1877 words: 1440 flesch: 85 summary: Stepan Arkadyevitch, Vassenka Veslovsky and Levin are going to Gvozdyov to have some evening shooting. They will spend the night there and go on tomorrow to the bigger moors. There are two nice little places on the way, but there is nothing to shoot there. keywords: levin; veslovsky cache: part_06_chapter_009.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_009.txt item: #177 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_010 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 10) date: 1877 words: 1931 flesch: 86 summary: Levin, Vassenka and Stepan Arkadyevitch are going to hunt snipe in a marsh. They will separate with the dogs and go in different directions and meet over there at the mill. keywords: levin; marsh; snipe cache: part_06_chapter_010.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_010.txt item: #178 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_011 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 11) date: 1877 words: 2488 flesch: 85 summary: Levin and Stepan Arkadyevitch visited Veslovsky at the peasant's hut where he used to stay. They were entertained by the peasants who fed them, gave them drink and fed them bread and gave them vodka. Oblonsky told them about a shooting party at Malthus's, where he stayed the previous summer. keywords: arkadyevitch; levin; veslovsky; work cache: part_06_chapter_011.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_011.txt item: #179 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_012 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 12) date: 1877 words: 1695 flesch: 88 summary: Levin woke up at the earliest dawn and went out into the road to go shooting. The coachmen were sleeping in their carriages, the horses were dozing, and it was still gray out-of-doors. The dew wetted Levin's legs and his blouse in the high growing, fragrant hemp patch. keywords: laska; levin; marsh cache: part_06_chapter_012.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_012.txt item: #180 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_013 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 13) date: 1877 words: 732 flesch: 81 summary: Levin returned to his lodging with 19 head of fine game and one duck after a tramp of twenty miles. He had a new bodyguard, Marya Vlasyevna, sent by Kitty. The chestnut trace horse was off his feed and out of sorts. The coachman was driven ten miles with no sense. keywords: levin cache: part_06_chapter_013.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_013.txt item: #181 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_014 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 14) date: 1877 words: 1512 flesch: 82 summary: Veslovsky and Vassenka spent the night at Levin's. The next day at 10 o'clock Levin went to the room where Veslovsky had been put for the night and found him in his underclothes. He didn't take tea or coffee, because he didn't sleep well. He will wait till lunch for a walk. He wanted to show his horses. He went with his guest to the drawing-room. The princess was talking to him about moving to Moscow for Kitty's confinement. keywords: kitty; levin cache: part_06_chapter_014.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_014.txt item: #182 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_015 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 15) date: 1877 words: 1653 flesch: 87 summary: Darya Alexandrovna and Levin had a quarrel in the garden with Kitty and Stiva. Grisha went into the raspberries with Masha. Darya was angry at Masha and told her to stay in the corner. keywords: dolly; levin; vassenka cache: part_06_chapter_015.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_015.txt item: #183 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_016 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 16) date: 1877 words: 1982 flesch: 79 summary: Darya Alexandrovna went to see Anna. She had to hire horses for the journey. Levin didn't want her to take his horses, because he didn't like her going to Anna. Darya had to agree. Levin gave her his horses. keywords: alexandrovna; darya; thought cache: part_06_chapter_016.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_016.txt item: #184 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_017 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 17) date: 1877 words: 1700 flesch: 85 summary: The counting-house clerk and Darya Alexandrovna are on their way to the count's house. They are looking for Anna. They have come a long way to find her. They find her at Vozdvizhenskoe. keywords: anna; carriage; dolly cache: part_06_chapter_017.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_017.txt item: #185 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_018 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 18) date: 1877 words: 1474 flesch: 92 summary: Anna and Darya Alexandrovna are on their way to the town. Anna is happy with her job. Darya is unhappy with her position. Vassenka Veslovsky is galloping past them. Anna will talk to Darya later. keywords: anna; dolly cache: part_06_chapter_018.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_018.txt item: #186 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_019 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 19) date: 1877 words: 1800 flesch: 85 summary: Darya Alexandrovna was shocked by the new luxury of her new room. She was ashamed to see the patched dressing jacket that had been packed by mistake for her. The smart maid was sent for to go to her mistress, and Annushka remained with Darya. keywords: alexandrovna; anna; darya cache: part_06_chapter_019.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_019.txt item: #187 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_020 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 20) date: 1877 words: 1885 flesch: 81 summary: Princess Varvara is visiting Anna and Darya Alexandrovna on the terrace. Darya is living with Anna because she cared more for Anna than her sister Katerina Pavlovna. Anna will bring Darya, Darya and Alexey some lunch before dinner. keywords: anna; hospital; sviazhsky; vronsky cache: part_06_chapter_020.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_020.txt item: #188 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_021 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 21) date: 1877 words: 1697 flesch: 83 summary: Darya Alexandrovna is afraid of Vronsky because he wants to talk to her about Anna's friend, Vassenka Veslovsky. She suspects he wants her to come to stay with them with the children, or to create a set for Anna in Moscow. keywords: alexandrovna; anna cache: part_06_chapter_021.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_021.txt item: #189 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_022 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 22) date: 1877 words: 2813 flesch: 74 summary: Anna and Dolly got splashed at the buildings. Dolly had already put on her best dress and asked the maid to prepare her for dinner. Princess Varvara, Vronsky, Anna Arkadyevna, Veslovsky, Tushkevitch, and Alexey Alexandrovna were invited to the dinner. keywords: alexandrovna; anna; darya; veslovsky; vronsky cache: part_06_chapter_022.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_022.txt item: #190 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_023 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 23) date: 1877 words: 1721 flesch: 88 summary: Anna and Darya Alexandrovna are discussing Anna's relationship with Alexey Kirillovitch. Anna wants to know if Kitty is angry with Anna. Darya is happy with Alexy. Anna asks Darya directly what she thinks of her. keywords: anna; dolly cache: part_06_chapter_023.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_023.txt item: #191 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_024 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 24) date: 1877 words: 1510 flesch: 88 summary: Anna wants to divorce Veslovsky. Darya Alexandrovna doesn't want to talk about it. Anna's husband won't give her a divorce, because he's under the influence of Countess Lidia Ivanovna now. keywords: alexandrovna; darya cache: part_06_chapter_024.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_024.txt item: #192 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_025 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 25) date: 1877 words: 1139 flesch: 69 summary: Vronsky and Anna spent the whole summer and part of the winter in the country. They had a child and both had occupation. Anna devoted a great deal of attention to her appearance. Vronsky appreciated Anna's desire to please and serve him, but he wanted to be free. keywords: anna; vronsky cache: part_06_chapter_025.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_025.txt item: #193 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_026 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 26) date: 1877 words: 1621 flesch: 63 summary: In September Levin moved to Moscow for Kitty's confinement. Sergey Ivanovitch, who had property in the Kashinsky province, went to the elections. Levin had to transact in Kashin some important business relating to the wardship of land and to the receiving of certain redemption money for his sister, who was abroad. The district marshals of nobility were all occupied with the elections, and it was impossible to get the simplest thing done that depended upon the court of wardship. The notary could not hand over the order, because it must have the signature of the president. keywords: elections; levin; province cache: part_06_chapter_026.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_026.txt item: #194 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_027 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 27) date: 1877 words: 868 flesch: 79 summary: The sixth day of the election of the marshal of the province was fixed for the Hall of Nobility. The rooms, large and small, were full of noblemen in all sorts of uniforms. They were divided into two classes: the old and the new. Some of the young men belonged to the old party and others to the new party. keywords: levin cache: part_06_chapter_027.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_027.txt item: #195 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_028 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 28) date: 1877 words: 1678 flesch: 78 summary: Levin was standing far off. He could only hear the voices of the marshal, Sviazhsky and Sergey Ivanovitch. They were arguing about the interpretation of the act and the exact meaning of the words: "liable to be called up for trial". Sergey suggested a ballot. A landowner with dyed whiskers, in a tight uniform, interrupted the discussion and demanded a vote. The marshal called for order. keywords: ivanovitch; levin; marshal cache: part_06_chapter_028.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_028.txt item: #196 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_029 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 29) date: 1877 words: 1659 flesch: 88 summary: The room full of noblemen was full of generals organizing the approaching battle. The excitement grew more intense. Levin didn't want to eat or drink, because Vronsky in his equerry's uniform was standing with them in eager conversation. He felt depressed because everyone else was eager, anxious, and interested. keywords: landowner; levin; work cache: part_06_chapter_029.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_029.txt item: #197 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_030 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 30) date: 1877 words: 1834 flesch: 84 summary: Sviazhsky took Levin's arm and went with him to his own friends. Vronsky was standing with Stepan Arkadyevitch and Sergey Ivanovitch. He was looking straight at Levin as he drew near. He had met Levin at Princess Shtcherbatskaya's. Levin blushed and started talking to his brother. Nevyedovsky will not stand for Snetkov. keywords: levin; marshal; vronsky cache: part_06_chapter_030.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_030.txt item: #198 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_031 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 31) date: 1877 words: 1266 flesch: 72 summary: The newly elected marshal and many of the successful party dined that day with Vronsky. He was quite a new man in the circle of the nobility of the province. His success was due to his wealth and reputation, the capital house in the town lent him by his old friend Shirkov, his friendship with the governor and his direct, equable manner with everyone. keywords: election; nevyedovsky; vronsky cache: part_06_chapter_031.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_031.txt item: #199 of 249 id: part_06_chapter_032 author: Tolstoy title: Part 6 (Chapter 32) date: 1877 words: 1528 flesch: 88 summary: Before Vronsky's departure for the elections, Anna had thought that the scenes repeated between them each time he left home might only make him cold to her instead of attaching him to her. The cold, severe glance with which he had looked at her when he came to tell her he was going had wounded her. Anna passed five days without him, the five days that he was at the elections. She was occupied with walking, conversation with Princess Varvara, visits to the hospital and reading. keywords: anna; thought cache: part_06_chapter_032.txt plain text: part_06_chapter_032.txt item: #200 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_001 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 1) date: 1877 words: 1391 flesch: 65 summary: Sergey Ivanovitch's book "Sketch of a Survey of the Principles and Forms of Government in Europe and Russia" was published last year and distributed among the booksellers. The book did not make an impression on society. keywords: book; ivanovitch; sergey cache: part_07_chapter_001.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_001.txt item: #201 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_002 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 2) date: 1877 words: 1203 flesch: 86 summary: Sergey Ivanovitch and Katavasov had just reached the station of the Kursk line. They saw a party of volunteers driving up in four cabs. Ladies met them with bouquets of flowers. Count Vronsky, the notorious one, is going by train. Countess Lidia Ivanovna is sending him. keywords: princess; sergey cache: part_07_chapter_002.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_002.txt item: #202 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_003 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 3) date: 1877 words: 894 flesch: 66 summary: Sergey Ivanovitch and Katavasov are travelling by train. They are singing "Hail to Thee" at Tsaritsino station, but Sergey doesn't pay much attention to the volunteers. He wants to talk to them, so at the next station he goes into the second-class carriage and makes friends with them. keywords: katavasov; volunteers cache: part_07_chapter_003.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_003.txt item: #203 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_004 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 4) date: 1877 words: 851 flesch: 95 summary: Sergey Ivanovitch saw Vronsky's old countess at the train station. She was taking Koznishev as far as Kursk. He didn't speak to anyone for six weeks and didn't touch food except when begged. He wrote an answer to a note and sent it off. In the evening a lady threw herself under the train. keywords: sergey cache: part_07_chapter_004.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_004.txt item: #204 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_005 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 5) date: 1877 words: 854 flesch: 78 summary: Sergey Ivanovitch wanted to offer Vronsky his services. He wanted to send a letter to Ristitchto Milan, but Vronksky didn't want it. He would prefer to get into relations with anyone prepared to see him. keywords: sergey; vronsky cache: part_07_chapter_005.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_005.txt item: #205 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_006 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 6) date: 1877 words: 994 flesch: 90 summary: Katavasov and Sergey Ivanovitch arrived at the Pokrovskoe house. Kitty recognized her brother-in-law, and ran down to meet him. She will send for Papa to fetch him as he's staying with them. keywords: baby; kitty cache: part_07_chapter_006.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_006.txt item: #206 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_007 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 7) date: 1877 words: 847 flesch: 85 summary: Agafea Mihalovna went out on tiptoe, the nurse let down the blind, chased a fly and a bumblebee from the crib, and waved a branch of birch over the mother and the baby. Kitty is glad Kostya's gone to the bee-house again, because it distracts him from reading philosophy. keywords: kitty cache: part_07_chapter_007.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_007.txt item: #207 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_008 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 8) date: 1877 words: 842 flesch: 63 summary: Levin's new convictions about life and death have haunted him since his brother's deathbed. He was in Moscow after his wife's confinement and was looking for answers to the questions of his life. He couldn't find any satisfactory answers. keywords: life cache: part_07_chapter_008.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_008.txt item: #208 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_009 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 9) date: 1877 words: 771 flesch: 63 summary: Levin had doubts about the materialistic explanation of life. He read and re-read Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer. His brother Sergey Ivanovitch advised him to read the theological works of Homiakov. He was impressed by the doctrine of the church. keywords: church; life cache: part_07_chapter_009.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_009.txt item: #209 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_010 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 10) date: 1877 words: 1233 flesch: 63 summary: Levin was more decided and unhesitating in his life than he had ever been. He was disappointed by the failure of his former efforts for the general welfare. Now, since his marriage, he had to live for himself. keywords: levin; peasants cache: part_07_chapter_010.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_010.txt item: #210 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_011 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 11) date: 1877 words: 1168 flesch: 82 summary: Sergey Ivanovitch came to Pokrovskoe on one of Levin's most painful days. It was the busiest time of the year for the peasants, when they have to work very hard for three or four weeks. Levin always felt he was infected by the general quickening of energy in the people. keywords: levin; man cache: part_07_chapter_011.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_011.txt item: #211 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_012 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 12) date: 1877 words: 1434 flesch: 81 summary: Levin's spiritual condition has changed since the peasant's words. Now he understands Fyodor's and Kirillov's ideas more fully and clearly than he ever did before. He believes that one must not live for one's own wants, but for God. keywords: grass; life cache: part_07_chapter_012.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_012.txt item: #212 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_013 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 13) date: 1877 words: 1086 flesch: 81 summary: Dolly and her children were caught by their mother playing pranks on Levin. They were cooking raspberries over the candles and squirting milk into each other's mouths with a syringe. They didn't believe their mother when she said it was for their own good. Levin thinks that philosophy is the same. keywords: children; church cache: part_07_chapter_013.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_013.txt item: #213 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_014 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 14) date: 1877 words: 1727 flesch: 79 summary: The coachman came to Levin to tell him that his brother has come and his mistress sent him. Levin got into the trap with Raven in the shafts and took the reins. Levin's relations with all men would be different with his brother and his wife. keywords: brother; katavasov; levin cache: part_07_chapter_014.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_014.txt item: #214 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_015 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 15) date: 1877 words: 1470 flesch: 81 summary: Kostya and Vronsky are going to Servia with Sergey Ivanovitch. Kostya is taking a squadron out with him at his own expense. The prince says that private persons cannot take part in war without the permission of the government. keywords: ivanovitch; people cache: part_07_chapter_015.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_015.txt item: #215 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_016 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 16) date: 1877 words: 1285 flesch: 75 summary: Sergey Ivanovitch and Prince Levin are arguing about the unanimity in the intellectual world. Prince Levin's son-in-law, Stepan Arkadyevitch, has a place on the committee of a commission and a salary of 8,000 roubles. Sergey Ivanovitches has to give a message to Darya Alexandrovna about the post. keywords: ivanovitch; people cache: part_07_chapter_016.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_016.txt item: #216 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_017 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 17) date: 1877 words: 851 flesch: 88 summary: The old prince and Sergey Ivanovitch got into the trap and drove off. The rest of the party hastened homewards on foot. The storm-clouds, turning white and then black, moved down so quickly that they had to quicken their pace to get home before the rain. They were still two hundred paces from home and a gust of wind had already blown up. The children ran ahead with frightened and gleeful shrieks. Darya Alexandrovna was struggling with her skirts that clung round her legs. Mitya was in the copse. Agafea Mihalovna met them with kerchiefs and rugs in the hall. keywords: copse; levin cache: part_07_chapter_017.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_017.txt item: #217 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_018 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 18) date: 1877 words: 1098 flesch: 80 summary: After the rain it was too wet to go for a walk. The whole party spent the rest of the day in the house. After dinner everyone was in the most amiable frame of mind. Sergey Ivanovitch drew his brother on to explain his views of the future of the Eastern question. Kitty had to give Mitya his bath. Levin went to the nursery. keywords: feeling; kitty cache: part_07_chapter_018.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_018.txt item: #218 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_019 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 19) date: 1877 words: 1032 flesch: 74 summary: Levin is questioning the relation of religion to God. He believes in the law of right and wrong and in the church. He also questions the existence of God and the divinity of all religions. He is trying to express that knowledge in reason and words. keywords: right; stars cache: part_07_chapter_019.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_019.txt item: #219 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_020 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 20) date: 1877 words: 1708 flesch: 81 summary: Stepan Arkadyevitch moved to Petersburg to freshen himself up after Moscow. Prince Tchetchensky had a second illegitimate family of children and he took his eldest son with him to visit his second family. In Petersburg children did not prevent their parents from enjoying life. keywords: arkadyevitch; moscow; stepan cache: part_07_chapter_020.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_020.txt item: #220 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_021 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 21) date: 1877 words: 1905 flesch: 79 summary: Stepan Arkadyevitch went to Countess Lidia Ivanovna's after a dinner at Bartnyansky's. Alexey Alexandrovitch Karenin and Count Bezzubov are there. Princess Myakaya is also there. She has influence over Pomorsky. A short, thinnish man, very pale and handsome, with feminine hips and knock-kneed legs, with fine brilliant eyes and long hair lying on the collar of his coat, was standing at the end of the room gazing at the portraits on the wall. The countess addressed him as Landau and introduced him to Oblonsky. keywords: alexandrovitch; alexey; ivanovna cache: part_07_chapter_021.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_021.txt item: #221 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_022 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 22) date: 1877 words: 921 flesch: 82 summary: Stepan Arkadyevitch is in Petersburg. He finds the complexity of the city stimulating, but he is confused and disconcerted. Countess Lidia Ivanovna is talking to Landau. Stepan's head is heavy and he starts to yawn. keywords: arkadyevitch; stepan cache: part_07_chapter_022.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_022.txt item: #222 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_023 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 23) date: 1877 words: 1326 flesch: 74 summary: Anna and Vronsky lived in Moscow. They didn't go back to Vozdvizhenskoe as they had arranged to do long before. They stayed in Moscow because they didn't have an agreement between them. Anna was jealous of her husband's love for other women. keywords: anna; love cache: part_07_chapter_023.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_023.txt item: #223 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_024 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 24) date: 1877 words: 1691 flesch: 89 summary: Vronsky went for a drive and wanted to be in the country. He will be back directly and they will talk it over. She wants to go away and she doesn't want to hear anything about the divorce. Vronsky had a dinner and a boat race in Moscow. keywords: love; tomorrow cache: part_07_chapter_024.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_024.txt item: #224 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_025 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 25) date: 1877 words: 1944 flesch: 86 summary: Anna and Vronsky are going to leave for Vozdvizhenskoe tomorrow. Anna is going to take dresses to Wilson's to give to his mother. She is not sending the horses off yet, because they will come after them. keywords: anna; vronsky cache: part_07_chapter_025.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_025.txt item: #225 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_026 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 26) date: 1877 words: 1634 flesch: 86 summary: Anna had a quarrel with her husband today. He was cold to her because he loved another woman. Anna was expecting him the whole day. She left a message for him in the evening. In the evening he believed what the servant said and went to his own room. keywords: carriage; room cache: part_07_chapter_026.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_026.txt item: #226 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_027 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 27) date: 1877 words: 1095 flesch: 96 summary: Anna is afraid that Vronsky has left her. The count has gone to the stable. Anna will send Mihail with the note to the stables. Anna is afraid of being left alone now. Anna went to the nursery to talk to the little girl. She is going to the country tomorrow. keywords: eyes cache: part_07_chapter_027.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_027.txt item: #227 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_028 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 28) date: 1877 words: 1529 flesch: 94 summary: Anna is angry at Vronsky for what he did to her. She will tell Dolly all about it and she will not let him train her as he pleases. Anna is angry about the smell of paint and the fact that they are always painting. keywords: anna; kitty cache: part_07_chapter_028.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_028.txt item: #228 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_029 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 29) date: 1877 words: 1022 flesch: 92 summary: Anna got into the carriage again in an even worse frame of mind than when she set out from home. To her previous tortures was added now that sense of mortification and of being an outcast which she had felt so distinctly on meeting Kitty. Anna wanted to tell Dolly what she was feeling, but she didn't. Dolly would have been pleased at Anna's misery. Anna envies Kitty. keywords: carriage; kitty cache: part_07_chapter_029.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_029.txt item: #229 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_030 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 30) date: 1877 words: 1331 flesch: 88 summary: Anna and Pyotr didn't find happiness in their relationship. Count Vronsky took everything from her and wants divorce and marriage so as to burn his ships. Anna is no longer proud of herself and ashamed of her relationship with him. keywords: love; thought cache: part_07_chapter_030.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_030.txt item: #230 of 249 id: part_07_chapter_031 author: Tolstoy title: Part 7 (Chapter 31) date: 1877 words: 1772 flesch: 83 summary: Anna is on a train. Pyotr, in his uniform and top-boots, came to take her to the train. Some noisy men were quiet as she passed them on the platform, and one whispered something about her to another. She sat down in a carriage by herself on a dirty seat that had been white. She got up quickly and seated herself at the opposite window of the empty carriage. She saw a misshapen-looking peasant covered with dirt, in a cap, stooping down to the carriage wheels. She moved away to the opposite door and let in a man and his wife. The couple seated themselves on the opposite side and scrutinized Anna's clothes. keywords: anna; platform; train cache: part_07_chapter_031.txt plain text: part_07_chapter_031.txt item: #231 of 249 id: part_08_chapter_001 author: Tolstoy title: Part 8 (Chapter 1) date: 1877 words: 1391 flesch: 65 summary: Sergey Ivanovitch's book "Sketch of a Survey of the Principles and Forms of Government in Europe and Russia" was published last year and distributed among the booksellers. The book did not make an impression on society. keywords: book; ivanovitch; sergey cache: part_08_chapter_001.txt plain text: part_08_chapter_001.txt item: #232 of 249 id: part_08_chapter_002 author: Tolstoy title: Part 8 (Chapter 2) date: 1877 words: 1203 flesch: 86 summary: Sergey Ivanovitch and Katavasov had just reached the station of the Kursk line. They saw a party of volunteers driving up in four cabs. Ladies met them with bouquets of flowers. Count Vronsky, the notorious one, is going by train. Countess Lidia Ivanovna is sending him. keywords: princess; sergey cache: part_08_chapter_002.txt plain text: part_08_chapter_002.txt item: #233 of 249 id: part_08_chapter_003 author: Tolstoy title: Part 8 (Chapter 3) date: 1877 words: 894 flesch: 66 summary: Sergey Ivanovitch and Katavasov are travelling by train. They are singing "Hail to Thee" at Tsaritsino station, but Sergey doesn't pay much attention to the volunteers. He wants to talk to them, so at the next station he goes into the second-class carriage and makes friends with them. keywords: katavasov; volunteers cache: part_08_chapter_003.txt plain text: part_08_chapter_003.txt item: #234 of 249 id: part_08_chapter_004 author: Tolstoy title: Part 8 (Chapter 4) date: 1877 words: 851 flesch: 95 summary: Sergey Ivanovitch saw Vronsky's old countess at the train station. She was taking Koznishev as far as Kursk. He didn't speak to anyone for six weeks and didn't touch food except when begged. He wrote an answer to a note and sent it off. In the evening a lady threw herself under the train. keywords: sergey cache: part_08_chapter_004.txt plain text: part_08_chapter_004.txt item: #235 of 249 id: part_08_chapter_005 author: Tolstoy title: Part 8 (Chapter 5) date: 1877 words: 854 flesch: 78 summary: Sergey Ivanovitch wanted to offer Vronsky his services. He wanted to send a letter to Ristitchto Milan, but Vronksky didn't want it. He would prefer to get into relations with anyone prepared to see him. keywords: sergey; vronsky cache: part_08_chapter_005.txt plain text: part_08_chapter_005.txt item: #236 of 249 id: part_08_chapter_006 author: Tolstoy title: Part 8 (Chapter 6) date: 1877 words: 994 flesch: 90 summary: Katavasov and Sergey Ivanovitch arrived at the Pokrovskoe house. Kitty recognized her brother-in-law, and ran down to meet him. She will send for Papa to fetch him as he's staying with them. keywords: baby; kitty cache: part_08_chapter_006.txt plain text: part_08_chapter_006.txt item: #237 of 249 id: part_08_chapter_007 author: Tolstoy title: Part 8 (Chapter 7) date: 1877 words: 847 flesch: 85 summary: Agafea Mihalovna went out on tiptoe, the nurse let down the blind, chased a fly and a bumblebee from the crib, and waved a branch of birch over the mother and the baby. Kitty is glad Kostya's gone to the bee-house again, because it distracts him from reading philosophy. keywords: kitty cache: part_08_chapter_007.txt plain text: part_08_chapter_007.txt item: #238 of 249 id: part_08_chapter_008 author: Tolstoy title: Part 8 (Chapter 8) date: 1877 words: 842 flesch: 63 summary: Levin's new convictions about life and death have haunted him since his brother's deathbed. He was in Moscow after his wife's confinement and was looking for answers to the questions of his life. He couldn't find any satisfactory answers. keywords: life cache: part_08_chapter_008.txt plain text: part_08_chapter_008.txt item: #239 of 249 id: part_08_chapter_009 author: Tolstoy title: Part 8 (Chapter 9) date: 1877 words: 771 flesch: 63 summary: Levin had doubts about the materialistic explanation of life. He read and re-read Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer. His brother Sergey Ivanovitch advised him to read the theological works of Homiakov. He was impressed by the doctrine of the church. keywords: church; life cache: part_08_chapter_009.txt plain text: part_08_chapter_009.txt item: #240 of 249 id: part_08_chapter_010 author: Tolstoy title: Part 8 (Chapter 10) date: 1877 words: 1233 flesch: 63 summary: Levin was more decided and unhesitating in his life than he had ever been. He was disappointed by the failure of his former efforts for the general welfare. Now, since his marriage, he had to live for himself. keywords: levin; peasants cache: part_08_chapter_010.txt plain text: part_08_chapter_010.txt item: #241 of 249 id: part_08_chapter_011 author: Tolstoy title: Part 8 (Chapter 11) date: 1877 words: 1168 flesch: 82 summary: Sergey Ivanovitch came to Pokrovskoe on one of Levin's most painful days. It was the busiest time of the year for the peasants, when they have to work very hard for three or four weeks. Levin always felt he was infected by the general quickening of energy in the people. keywords: levin; man cache: part_08_chapter_011.txt plain text: part_08_chapter_011.txt item: #242 of 249 id: part_08_chapter_012 author: Tolstoy title: Part 8 (Chapter 12) date: 1877 words: 1434 flesch: 81 summary: Levin's spiritual condition has changed since the peasant's words. Now he understands Fyodor's and Kirillov's ideas more fully and clearly than he ever did before. He believes that one must not live for one's own wants, but for God. keywords: grass; life cache: part_08_chapter_012.txt plain text: part_08_chapter_012.txt item: #243 of 249 id: part_08_chapter_013 author: Tolstoy title: Part 8 (Chapter 13) date: 1877 words: 1086 flesch: 81 summary: Dolly and her children were caught by their mother playing pranks on Levin. They were cooking raspberries over the candles and squirting milk into each other's mouths with a syringe. They didn't believe their mother when she said it was for their own good. Levin thinks that philosophy is the same. keywords: children; church cache: part_08_chapter_013.txt plain text: part_08_chapter_013.txt item: #244 of 249 id: part_08_chapter_014 author: Tolstoy title: Part 8 (Chapter 14) date: 1877 words: 1727 flesch: 79 summary: The coachman came to Levin to tell him that his brother has come and his mistress sent him. Levin got into the trap with Raven in the shafts and took the reins. Levin's relations with all men would be different with his brother and his wife. keywords: brother; katavasov; levin cache: part_08_chapter_014.txt plain text: part_08_chapter_014.txt item: #245 of 249 id: part_08_chapter_015 author: Tolstoy title: Part 8 (Chapter 15) date: 1877 words: 1470 flesch: 81 summary: Kostya and Vronsky are going to Servia with Sergey Ivanovitch. Kostya is taking a squadron out with him at his own expense. The prince says that private persons cannot take part in war without the permission of the government. keywords: ivanovitch; people cache: part_08_chapter_015.txt plain text: part_08_chapter_015.txt item: #246 of 249 id: part_08_chapter_016 author: Tolstoy title: Part 8 (Chapter 16) date: 1877 words: 1285 flesch: 75 summary: Sergey Ivanovitch and Prince Levin are arguing about the unanimity in the intellectual world. Prince Levin's son-in-law, Stepan Arkadyevitch, has a place on the committee of a commission and a salary of 8,000 roubles. Sergey Ivanovitches has to give a message to Darya Alexandrovna about the post. keywords: ivanovitch; people cache: part_08_chapter_016.txt plain text: part_08_chapter_016.txt item: #247 of 249 id: part_08_chapter_017 author: Tolstoy title: Part 8 (Chapter 17) date: 1877 words: 851 flesch: 88 summary: The old prince and Sergey Ivanovitch got into the trap and drove off. The rest of the party hastened homewards on foot. The storm-clouds, turning white and then black, moved down so quickly that they had to quicken their pace to get home before the rain. They were still two hundred paces from home and a gust of wind had already blown up. The children ran ahead with frightened and gleeful shrieks. Darya Alexandrovna was struggling with her skirts that clung round her legs. Mitya was in the copse. Agafea Mihalovna met them with kerchiefs and rugs in the hall. keywords: copse; levin cache: part_08_chapter_017.txt plain text: part_08_chapter_017.txt item: #248 of 249 id: part_08_chapter_018 author: Tolstoy title: Part 8 (Chapter 18) date: 1877 words: 1098 flesch: 80 summary: After the rain it was too wet to go for a walk. The whole party spent the rest of the day in the house. After dinner everyone was in the most amiable frame of mind. Sergey Ivanovitch drew his brother on to explain his views of the future of the Eastern question. Kitty had to give Mitya his bath. Levin went to the nursery. keywords: feeling; kitty cache: part_08_chapter_018.txt plain text: part_08_chapter_018.txt item: #249 of 249 id: part_08_chapter_019 author: Tolstoy title: Part 8 (Chapter 19) date: 1877 words: 1032 flesch: 74 summary: Levin is questioning the relation of religion to God. He believes in the law of right and wrong and in the church. He also questions the existence of God and the divinity of all religions. He is trying to express that knowledge in reason and words. keywords: right; stars cache: part_08_chapter_019.txt plain text: part_08_chapter_019.txt