Anna Karenina

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Description

a leather-bound paper book

 The writing is in Anglic, and reads:
Anna Karenina

    A medium-sized book of paper in a sturdy but plain leather binding.  A title is engraved on the
cover.  It is open to page one of one thousand five hundred eleven.  It is open to page one of one
thousand five hundred eleven.  You appraise it at eighty-six gold.  
    It looks about a quarter of a dimin long, one and seventeen twentieths dimins wide, and two and
nine twentieths dimins tall.  It weighs about thirteen twentieths of a dekan.

    The commands 'open <item>', 'close <item>', and 'turn page [in <item>] [to <number>]' may be
used with it.  Keeping the leather-bound paper book costs six keep points.  The leather-bound paper
book was created by Lost Souls; the source code was last updated Tue Mar 15 02:15:35 2016.  The
material leather was created by Lost Souls; the source code was last updated Tue Mar 15 02:18:23
2016.  The material paper was created by Lost Souls; the source code was last updated Tue Mar 15
02:18:43 2016.

Text

                                 ANNA KARENINA
                                 by Leo Tolstoy
                        translated by Constance Garnett

                          PART ONE

                Vengeance is mine; I will repay

                             I.

  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 she had
announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same
house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted two days,
and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of
their family and the household, were painfully conscious of it. All
the members of the family and the household felt that there was no
sense in their living together, and that even stray people brought
together by chance in any inn had more in common with one another than

It is open to page one of one thousand five hundred eleven.

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