Don't read this if you don't want to know the ending of "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy. I bought the 817 page novel a few years back and have read it twice. It's a great sweeping Russian story about the love between a woman in a passionless marriage who is in love with a handsome officer ( I know, I know- it's like television just mines the Russian 19th century novelists for storylines). So, the main character (Anna), after dozens of detailed chapters of their trists, secret meetings, delicate yet subtle erotic ankle flashings, THROWS HERSELF UNDER A MOVING TRAIN AND DIES about 4/5 a way through the book.
There you go- you really need not read the classic novel now, huh? Just amaze your fauxhemian friends with your literary i.q. and discuss the other possibilities for Anna (live her life out as an outcast spinster? Become a hooker? Marry under her class level?) or, better yet- THROW HERSELF UNDER A MOVING TRAIN!
Many a good fireside conversation will ensue. Trust me.
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