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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780140449600

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 258g

  • RRP: £9.99

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

  • Leo Tolstoy

  • Donna Orwin (Introducer)

  • David McDuff (Translator)

  • Paul Foote (Translator)

This volume includes Family Happiness; The Kreutzer Sonata; The Devil and Father Sergius. The four stories are all about love, but they take very different attitudes towards it. Tolstoy knows that jis readers have fallen in love and also, often, fallen out of it; they have wanted to kill their loved ones; they have lusted vigorously; or desperately sought the approval and even worship of others - Tolstoy depends on our own memories to entagle us in his tragic stories.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780140449600

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 258g

  • RRP: £9.99

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Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Tula province. He studied at the University of Kazan, then led a life of pleasure until 1851 when he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus. He established his reputation as a writer with The Sebastopol Sketches (1855-6). After a period in St Petersburg and abroad, he married, had thirteen children, managed his vast estates in the Volga Steppes and wrote War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). A Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life, and in 1901 he was excommuincated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in 1910, in the course of a dramatic flight from home, at the railway station of Astapovo.

Leo Tolstoy

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