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And the story itself is more frightful than the outcome.
This controversial novella that was widely censored upon its initial 1889 release and which prompted Teddy Roosevelt to refer to its author as a "sexual moral pervert" is one of Tolstoy's later works, appearing about a decade after his spiritual awakening, as more fully documented in A Confession. In an Epilogue published about a year after the novella, Tolstoy confirms that he meant the story to be an argument for chastity and abstinence - ...more
This controversial novella that was widely censored upon its initial 1889 release and which prompted Teddy Roosevelt to refer to its author as a "sexual moral pervert" is one of Tolstoy's later works, appearing about a decade after his spiritual awakening, as more fully documented in A Confession. In an Epilogue published about a year after the novella, Tolstoy confirms that he meant the story to be an argument for chastity and abstinence - ...more
Tolstoy's novella The Kreutzer Sonata is disturbing and will make you question the author's views of women. However, the writing is so impeccably written that you cannot help but find yourself immerse in the world of his main character. He is a suspicious, jealous, methodical, and crazed man who is confessing the murder of his wife. Because of its first person narrative and direct style, the book is an intimate look inside the mind of this man. It makes the story feel more claustrophobic and voy
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Travellers left and entered our car at every stopping of the train. Three persons, however, remained, bound, like myself, for the farthest station: a lady neither young nor pretty, smoking cigarettes, with a thin face, a cap on her head, and wearing a semi-masculine outer garment; then her companion, a very loquacious gentleman of about forty years, with baggage entirely new and arran ...more
Free download available at Gutenberg Project.
Opening lines:
Travellers left and entered our car at every stopping of the train. Three persons, however, remained, bound, like myself, for the farthest station: a lady neither young nor pretty, smoking cigarettes, with a thin face, a cap on her head, and wearing a semi-masculine outer garment; then her companion, a very loquacious gentleman of about forty years, with baggage entirely new and arran ...more
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