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PENGUIN CLASSICS KREUTZER SONATA AND OTHER STORIES

Family Happiness; The Kreutzer Sonata; The Devil; Father Sergius
Leo Tolstoy - Author
David McDuff - Translator
David McDuff - Notes by
Paul Foote - Translator
Paul Foote - Notes by
Donna Orwin - Introduction by
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Book: Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 352 pages | ISBN 9780140449600 | 25 Mar 2008 | Penguin Classics | 18 - AND UP
PENGUIN CLASSICS KREUTZER SONATA AND OTHER STORIES

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 his 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.