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Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy
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Russian writer Leo Tolstoy’s psychologically and morally complex novels are regarded as masterpieces of realistic fiction. Tolstoy believed that culture and society were antagonistic to true happiness. This excerpt from Anna Karenina, recited by an actor, is the famous first line of Tolstoy's celebrated novel of adultery and family dissolution.
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Novel; Russian Literature; Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich
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