The Kreutzer Sonata, And Other Stories: Includes Ivan The Fool, A Lost Opportunity, Polikushka and The Candle

Table of Contents:

Translator's Preface
The Kreutzer Sonata
Lesson of "The Kreutzer Sonata"
Ivan The Fool
A Lost Opportunity
Polikushka
The Candle

Leo Tolstoy Biography

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The Kreutzer Sonata is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1889 and promptly censored by the Russian authorities. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of jealous rage. The main character, Pozdnyshev, relates the events leading up to his killing his wife; in his analysis, the root cause for the deed were the "animal excesses" and "swinish connection" governing the relation between the sexes.

— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.