A "labyrinth of linkages" in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

Identifies and analyses previously unnoticed or only briefly mentioned “linkages and keystones” found in two highly developed clusters of symbols, arising from Anna’s momentous train ride and peasant nightmares, and of allegories, rooted in Vronsky’s disastrous steeplechase.

Within this labyrinth lies embedded much of the novel’s most significant meaning.