The Kreutzer Sonata [electronic resource]
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-19102012
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One of the world's greatest novelists, Leo Tolstoy was also the author of a number of superb short stories, one of his best-known being "The Kreutzer Sonata." This macabre story involves the murder of a wife by her husband. It is a penetrating study of jealousy as well as a piercing complaint about the way in which society educates men and women in matters of sex—a serious condemnation of the mores and attitudes of the wealthy, educated class.
Main title:
The Kreutzer Sonata [electronic resource] / Leo Tolstoy
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Edition:
Unabridged
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Blackstone Publishing, 2012
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Tula province. He studied at the University of Kazan, then led a life of pleasure until 1851 when he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus. He established his reputation as a writer with The Sebastopol Sketches (1855-6). After a period in St Petersburg and abroad, he married, had thirteen children, managed his vast estates in the Volga Steppes and wrote War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). A Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life, and in 1901 he was excommuincated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in 1910, in the course of a dramatic flight from home, at the railway station of Astapovo.
ISBN:
9781481546140
Language:
English
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BRN:
2906660