The Kreutzer Sonata
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- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2003
Summary
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When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. Controversial upon publication in 1890, The Kreutzer Sonata illuminates Tolstoy’s then-feverish Christian ideals, his conflicts with lust and the hypocrisies of nineteenth-century marriage, and his thinking on the role of art and music in s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812968231 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0812968239 |
| Author: | Leo Tolstoy, Isai Kamen, Doris Lessing |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2003 |
| Weight: | 119g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 131mm x 8mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
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“Moments of dramatic genius: a wracking vision of marriage as jealousy nourished, hatred voluptuously fed, rage taken for breakfast.”-Elizabeth Hardwick
“Moments of dramatic genius: a wracking vision of marriage as jealousy nourished, hatred voluptuously fed, rage taken for breakfast.”—Elizabeth Hardwick
About The Author
Leo Tolstoy
Doris Lessing was born in Persia in 1919 to British parents, and grew up in Rhodesia. She has written more than twenty books, including the twentieth-century feminist classic The Golden Notebook and, most recently, The Sweetest Dream. She writes and lives in England.
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