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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which famous work starts with the line “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”
A
War and Peace
B
Resurrection
C
Anna Karenina
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way (Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, 1878) At the opening of his novel Anna Karenina, the Russian novelist Tolstoy writes ‘All Happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Detailed explanation-2: -Quote 1. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. These famous opening lines of Anna Karenina hearken back to the genre of the family novel, a type of work that had been popular in Russia several decades earlier but was already outmoded by the 1870s.

Detailed explanation-3: -All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. In other words: happy families share a common set of attributes which lead to happiness, while any of a variety of attributes can cause an unhappy family.

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