The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories (Classics)

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• Used

  Paperback
  1985

  $5.78

  While The Kreutzer Sonata caused a public sensation, Tolstoy's wife, Sonya, was hurt and furious that he should have enriched his scathing indictment of marriage with private details from theri own life together. Tolstoy, during two years of obsessive unhappiness, had become convinced that the idea of a Christian marriage was an impossibility. Here he lets loose all his frustration and disgust at human sexuality, and the humiliating, ungodly, sensual tie that binds men to women. The curious result, part self-lacerating, confession, part Christian polemic, is moving, above all, as the story of a man whose sexual jealousy, inflamed by guilt, drives him to murder his wife.

• Used

  Paperback
  2008

  $8.64

  This volume includes Family Happiness ; The Kreutzer Sonata ; The Devil and Father Sergius . The four stories are all about love, but they take very different attitudes towards it. Tolstoy knows that his readers have fallen in love and also, often, fallen out of it; they have wanted to kill their loved ones; they have lusted vigorously; or desperately sought the approval and even worship of others - Tolstoy depends on our own memories to entangle us in his tragic stories.

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $11.53

  This volume includes Family Happiness ; The Kreutzer Sonata ; The Devil and Father Sergius . The four stories are all about love, but they take very different attitudes towards it. Tolstoy knows that his readers have fallen in love and also, often, fallen out of it; they have wanted to kill their loved ones; they have lusted vigorously; or desperately sought the approval and even worship of others - Tolstoy depends on our own memories to entangle us in his tragic stories.