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This
single page item is a reproduction of the first page of Leo
Tolstoy’s classic novel, Anna Karenina. It makes for
a terrific piece to frame and decorate a study or bedroom!
The
page is standard 8.5" x 11" in size and has been
hand antiqued via our own unique paper aging process to achieve
a look you won’t find anywhere else.
The
actual page contains the following text (though please note
that the formatting and font will be different as viewed on
this page – see photo for exact formatting and look!):
Anna
Karenina
By
Leo Tolstoy
Part
1
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
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 three days, and not only thehusband and wife
themselves, but all the members of their family and household,
were painfully conscious of it. Every person in the house
felt that there was no sense in their living together, and
that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn
had more in common with one another than they, the members
of the family and household of the Oblonskys. The wife did
not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for
three days. The children ran wild all over the house; the
English governess quarreled with the housekeeper, and wrote
to a friend asking her to look out for a new situation for
her; the man-cook had walked off the day before just at dinner
time; the kitchen-maid, and the coachman had given warning.
Three
days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky—Stiva,
as he was called in the fashionable world—woke up at
his usual hour, that is, at eight o’clock in the morning,
not in his wife’s bedroom, but on the leather-covered
sofa in his study. He turned over his stout, well-cared-for
person on the springy sofa, as though he would sink intoa
long sleep again; he vigorously embraced the pillow on the
other side and buried his face in it; but all at once he jumped
up, sat up on the sofa, and opened his eyes.
Our
antiqued paper is delicately laced with a subtle hint of gold
in the creases creating an almost magical look. (Although
it’s difficult to catch with a camera, you can see in
the image below how the shimmering is caught in the light)
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