The Book Club: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy with Inez Stepman
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The Importance of Virtue in a Novel
The train is such an important motif in the novel. The ability to move places very, very quickly is a symptom of and a cause of also eternity in the upending of tradition. Anna Karenina's love affair with Vronsky can be so destructive when it's decoupled from virtue,. Because it is simply wrong.
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