Anna Karenina/YMMV


 * Hilarious in Hindsight: There's a bit where a serious artist disapproves of Vronsky's dabbling in art while acting as though he is a serious and dedicated artist which Tolstoy compares to having a man hug and kiss a life-size wax doll as though it's a real person. A century or two later, the Realdoll was invented... (Warning, NSFW!)
 * Purity Sue: Kitty has some traces of this, although her entirety represents purity.
 * Tear Jerker: Tolstoy based it heavily off of a personal experience that deeply affected him, and it shows.
 * Then there's the little matter of 's fate...