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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

By Leo Tolstoy
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In The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories, Leo Tolstoy explores deep themes of love, jealousy, and morality. The central story, centred around a man confessing his troubled thoughts and actions related to his wife's fidelity, delves into the complexities of human emotions. Complemented by other stories, the collection challenges societal norms and examines philosophical and existential questions.
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You might enjoy this collection of stories if you're intrigued by intense explorations of moral dilemmas, human psychology, and the complexities of relationships. Tolstoy's masterful storytelling delves deep into the themes of love, jealousy, and societal norms, offering thought-provoking narratives that challenge conventional beliefs.

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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

A collection of love stories that include: "Family Happiness"; "The Kreutzer Sonata"; "The Devil" and "Father Sergius".

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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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780140449600

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 February 2008

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

  • Translated by David McDuff
  • Translated by Paul Foote
  • Edited by David McDuff
  • Edited by Paul Foote
  • Introduction by Donna Orwin
  • Translated by David McDuff

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 260g

Pages: 352

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Fiction General Fiction Leo Tolstoy Literary Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Classics

About the Author

Count Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 on the family estate of Yasnaya Polyana. He took part in the Crimean war and after the defence of Sevastopol wrote The Sevastopol Sketches (1855-6), which established his literary reputation. Among his best known novels are War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). In 1910 at the age of eighty-two he fled from home 'leaving this worldly life in order to live out my last days in peace and solitude'; dying some days later at the station master's house at Astapovo. Donna Tussing Orwin, who teaches Russian Literature at the University of Toronto, was Editor of Tolstoy Studies Journal from 1997-2004, and is now President of the North American Tolstoy Society. She is editor of The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy (2002) and is currently editing a collection of newly commissioned essays about Tolstoy to be published in Russia in 2010 by the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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