The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
Author: Leo Tolstoy
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 hi….Read More
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