The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
The Kreutzer Sonata, perhaps the most controversial of all Tolstoy's works, was written when he had reached the conclusion that marriage is a hindrance to man's attainment of the highest that is possible. The censored version of the story is here given, with the deleted passages forming an...
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The Kreutzer Sonata, perhaps the most controversial of all Tolstoy's works, was written when he had reached the conclusion that marriage is a hindrance to man's attainment of the highest that is possible. The censored version of the story is here given, with the deleted passages forming an appendix. Turgenev, reading Polikushka, "marvelled at the strength of his huge talen
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Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pages no: 375
Edition language: English
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ChronologyIntroductionFurther Reading--Family Happiness--The Kreutzer Sonata--The Devil--Father SergiusAppendix 1: Postface to 'The Kreutzer Sonata'Appendix 2: Alternative Conclusion to 'The Devil'Notes
You wana know how women act on the globall economyy and other unnessory expensesss!!!!!! You wana know how a man will feel for his bad deeds of his past!!!!!
Praised by many as Tolstoy's best short story—or novella, really—I'm shocked that I've never read this until now, if only for the reason that Tolstoy's best inevitably means one of the best novellas ever written. And The Kreutzer Sonata is definitely that; it's also one of the beginning texts of exi...
This collection of some of Tolstoy's short stories were all written after he entered his "radical Christian communist" phase toward the end of his life.To understand The Kreutzer Sonata, it helps to know that Tolstoy's marriage was miserable at this point, which perhaps explains why the Sonata is ba...
The Kreutzer Sonata — Ivan the Fool — A Lost Opportunity — Polikushka The Candle
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