Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories: The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories (Paperback)

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Absolutely his best. The Kreutzer Sonata is way ahead of its time and shows, that in essence nothing has changed. When reading this book, listen to Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. It will help to understand the turmoil and depth of this novel.

from krobk

This was my first glance into Tolstoy's fiction, and as I expected, I was blown away by his writing. The Death of Ivan Ilyich really captures human depravity and societal indifference to others. Ivan's personal and professional lives hardly serve any other function than to build and reinforce his...

from theageofsilt

Contains "How Much Land Does a Man Need?", "The Death of Ivan Ilych", and "The Kreutzer Sonata". Modern writers rarely lavish attention on describing human emotion. Tolstoy writes extensively on the agonies of a man who does not love his wife, but is still tormented by jealousy. In "The Death of ...

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Absolutely his best. The Kreutzer Sonata is way ahead of its time and shows, that in essence nothing has changed. When reading this book, listen to Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. It will help to understand the turmoil and depth of this novel.

from krobk

This was my first glance into Tolstoy's fiction, and as I expected, I was blown away by his writing. The Death of Ivan Ilyich really captures human depravity and societal indifference to others. Ivan's personal and professional lives hardly serve any other function than to build and reinforce his...