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PART ONE

Chapter One

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.

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