The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy

In 1847, he gave up his studies and, after several aimless years, volunteered for military duty in the army, serving as a junior officer in the Crimean War before retiring in 1857. Orphaned at nine, he was brought up by an elderly aunt and educated by French tutors until he matriculated at Kazan University in 1844. About the Author Count Leo Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828, in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. And Father Sergius shows a man going to increasingly desperate ends in order to avoid the temptations of the flesh. In The Devil, a young man finds it impossible to resist a beautiful peasant woman with whom he had an affair before his marriage. The K reutzer Sonata caused a public sensation with its indictment of so-called Christian marriage, a theme echoed in Family Happiness.

They portray the multifaceted nature of desire, from idealistic romance to sexual jealousy, from desperate lust to relentless longing. Book Synopsis A collection of some of Tolstoys most powerful powerful stories The violent spiritual crisis in Tolstoys life that inspired his last period of creativity produced the stories in this compelling and startling collection.

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy