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| | Books | Love in a cold climate |
 | | What stuck with me about the novel was that fated love affair where that most beautiful of women, Anna Karenina, is driven by passion into the arms of that most engaging of heroes, Vronsky. |
 | | This, after all, is a man who despises his mother but obeys her, who leads on the young Kitty, not from malice, but because he doesn't even notice he's doing it, and who sets out to build a hospital on his estate not to do good, but to prove he isn't mean. |
 | | True, it is about love, but it's also about people trying to come to terms with the meaning of life in the face of death. |
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