All happy families are alike ...

Yes, you guessed it — we are reading and discussing Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
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If this is your first time reading the novel, don’t rush it — take small bites and chew well. The recommended pace is 1-2 parts per week. We are meeting on the last Friday of October, so you’ll have plenty of time to enjoy it — or hate it — deeply enough.
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Read the novel in the language and translation of your choice.
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If you wish to read it in English, I would recommend choosing one of the following translations:

• R. Pevear and L. Volokhonsky (2000) — very attentive to Tolstoy’s repetitions, rhythms, and Russian syntax; sometimes less smooth or natural in English;
• Rosamund Bartlett (2014) — faithful but more fluid and idiomatic in modern British English, with particular attention to tone, register, and descriptive detail.