Word: karenina
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy...
...Vladimir Nabokov's lectures [Nov. 16] reminded me of the extraordinary final exam I took 24 years ago in Nabokov's course at Cornell. All his students were aware of his emphasis on "the word, the expression . . . not ideas" and, consequently, had read Tolstoy's Anna Karenina with great care. However, very few of us were prepared for questions like "Describe Vronsky's last glimpse of Anna" (dead under the wheels of a train), and the "trick" question: "What color paint was on the walls of the room where Anna was sick?" (no paint...
...Anna Karenina. A pretty young Russian matron gets a certain Count Vronsky interested in stamp collecting and so saves him from wasting his life in passion and frivolity...