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The Kreutzer Sonata

Author
Leo Tolstoy
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
3 hours 26 minutes
ISBN
9781802565881
Published
2 May 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • The Kreutzer Sonata
  • Leo Tolstoy
  • carnal love
  • marriage
  • god
  • Christianity
  • noble
  • humanity
  • crime
  • desire

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Description

A railway carriage, a violin, a man who will not stop talking. Tolstoy’s Kreutzer Sonata is Pozdnyshev after the crime, prosecuting desire, Beethoven, and the wedding contract in unabridged English. Jealousy as philosophy, the sonata entered as evidence, a novella that will not let the drawing-room stay pretty. Listen to a confession that wants a verdict, not a soft evening. A night train, a marriage talked to death, music as the last witness in the dark.

Author

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) was born to a titled family at Yasnaya Polyana, served in the Crimean War, and wrote the two novels that made Russian fiction a world event: War and Peace and Anna Karenina. The first holds a nation at war and at home; the second holds a marriage until it breaks. Later he turned from the worldly novel toward essays and moral tales, arguing with church, property, and his own fame. One hundred and six titles here.

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