The Kreutzer Sonata And Other Stories - 9781534986190

In these four stories, Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) depicts desire in its different manifestations - from idealistic romance to sexual jealousy, from desperate lust to relentless longing. Family Happiness, an early work, portrays the struggles of a couple as they move from courtship and passion through disillusionment to the quieter stage of married love. A passenger tells a bitter tale of sex, suspicion and murder when strangers on a train discuss the nature of love in The Kruetzer Sonata, a novella banned for its scandalous content in 1890. In The Devil, a young man finds it impossible to resist a beautiful peasant woman with whom he had an affair before his marriage, while Father Sergius shows a man going to increasingly desperate ends - from a soldier to monk, to hermit to beggar - in order to avoid the temptations of the flesh.

Author: Leo Tolstoy|Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910 Gra

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Jun 29, 2016

Number of Pages: 224 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1534986197

ISBN-13: 9781534986190