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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
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ISBN10: 1534986197
ISBN13: 9781534986190
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 29 2016
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781534986190
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 29 2016
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
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.
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