A man confesses his secret guilt to a stranger during a train trip. He remembers introducing his wife to an adventurer, and this started a game that will become tragically mocking. Increasingly suspicious one evening, as the couple perform Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata in perfect harmony, the man, driven by jealousy, kills his wife over a betrayal that never actually occurred and without realizing the terrible mistake. Published in 1891 after numerous revisions, the ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ is among Tolstoy’s most significant late works. A harsh indictment against the hypocrisies of married life, an almost Dostoevskian tale for its search for the darkest motives of human gestures, it stands as a merciless account of a story that could be true. This volume includes The Kreutzer Sonata, Ivan the Fool, A lost opportunity, Polikushka, The candle.
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