The Opening Line of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The first line in Anna Karenina, an 1878 novel written by Russian author, Leo Tolstoy, reads: All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Tolstoy opens his nearly 900-page book with this bleak sentence to lure readers into a tale of marriage, love, betrayal and family dynamics. The … Read more