The Kreutzer Sonata

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.