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Kreutzer Sonata

By Leo Tolstoy

Book information

Publisher
Modern Library
Year
2003
ISBN
0812968239, 9780812968231
Language
english
Format
LIT
Filesize
265 kB (271549 bytes)
Edition
Modern Library Paperback Ed
Pages
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Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. Controversial upon publication in 1890, The Kreutzer Sonata illuminates Tolstoy’s then-feverish Christian ideals, his conflicts with lust and the hypocrisies of nineteenth-century marriage, and his thinking on the role of art and music in society.In her Introduction, Doris Lessing shows how relevant The Kreutzer Sonata is to our understanding of Tolstoy the artist, as well as to feminism and literature. This Modern Library Paperback Classic also contains Tolstoy’s Sequel to the Kruetzer Sonata.

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