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ading any of Anna Karenina before Nabokov sprang a pop quiz. It consisted of an essay question: - Describe the train station in which Anna first met Vronsky." Initially, I was stymied by this question because, having not yet read the book, I did not know how Tolstoy had portrayed the station. But I did

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ine, and rail pace of modernity. Speed kills, old habits and ideas particularly. Between 1840 and 1940 travel times between Anna’s St. Petersburg and Vronsky’s Moscow shrunk by 10 minutes every year on average, loosing deep cracks in Russian economics and politics, tearing apart Anna’s slow-moving world of