2025-01-29 Wednesday: Anna Karenina, Part 1, Chapter 21
Chapter summary
All quotations and characters names from Internet Archive Maude.
Summary haiku courtesy u/Honest_Ad_2157: Stiva forgiven. / Vronsky stops by. A pretense / for a proposal?
Characters
Involved in action
- Dolly
- Anna
- Stiva
- Kitty
- Vronsky
Mentioned or Introduced
- Matthew, Matvey, Stiva’s valet, bad at curtains, last seen in 1.4 accepting 10 rubles from Stiva to get sitting room set up for Anna
- Unnamed female mutual St Petersburg acquaintance of Oblonskys and Karenins, Anna owns a photo
- Unnamed "diva", a celebrity, last mentioned 1.17 in conversation between Vronsky and Stiva at railway station
Prompt
What has it got in its pocketses?
Past cohorts' discussions
- 2019-08-12
- 2021-02-10
- 2023-02-03
- 2025-01-29
In 2021, u/zhoq curated a set of excerpts from posts in the 2019 cohort.
In 2019, u/Thermos_of_Byr gave [a valid explanation(https://www.reddit.com/r/thehemingwaylist/comments/cpdr1h/comment/ewosyt4/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button) for Vronsky’s visit.
Final Line
To Anna in particular it seemed strange and not right.
| Words read | Gutenberg Garnett | Internet Archive Maude |
|---|---|---|
| This chapter | 839 | 821 |
| Cumulative | 31865 | 30348 |
Note: for most of the 20th Century, 60,000 words was the length of a mainstream American English-language novel.
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