Dean's homework from Rory: Anna Karenina
Dean Forester (Jared Padalecki)
Rory lends Dean her favorite Tolstoy and he reports back that it's depressing and every name ends in -ski. Rory tells him Tolstoy wrote for the common man and asks him to try again. He agrees, which is the most romantic thing Dean does all season.
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Anna Karenina
Tolstoy serialized it from 1875 to 1877 before it came out as a book in 1878. Dean is wrong about the -ski thing, which is more Polish than Russian, and right that the names are a lot, since most characters answer to a first name, a patronymic and a nickname.
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