The Lady with the Pet Dog | Historical Context
Marital Infidelity
''The Lady with the Pet Dog'' was published in 1899 and heralded the moral dilemmas of the coming century. Marital infidelity was not exactly new in literature at the time. In fact, it was the central subject of three of the greatest novels of the latter half of the nineteenth century—Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Marriages were often arranged at this time, and people married very...
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