The ten most dramatic deaths in fiction

At the Telegraph, Rachel Thompson named a top ten list of the greatest deaths in fiction. (SPOILER ALERT, obviously). One entry on the list:Anna in Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1878)

It all goes wrong for the heroine of Leo Tolstoy’s tragic novel, when she gets ditched by her lover, ostracised by society, and prevented from seeing her son by her cuckolded husband. Distraught, Anna leaps in front