E-Text prepared by Martin Adamson martin@grassmarket.freeserve.co.uk BOYHOOD By LEO TOLSTOY Translated by CJ HOGARTH I A SLOW JOURNEY Again two carriages stood at the front door of the house at Petrovskoe. In one of them sat Mimi, the two girls, and their maid, with the bailiff, Jakoff, on the box, while in the other–a britchka–sat
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Translated by Constance Garnett Part One Chapter 1 Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and