The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy

The Kreutzer Sonata

Leo Tolstoy with Beatrice Scott (Translator)

210 pages first pub 1889 (editions)

fiction classics challenging reflective slow-paced
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Leo Tolstoy's (1828-1910) 1889 novella arguing for sexual abstinence was promptly censored by the Russian authorities. Pozdnyshev, who looks on women as sexual objects, relates the events leading up to his killing his wife in a jealous rage.

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