The acheter Kreutzer Sonata and other stories (riverrun editions) by Leo Tolstoy NEUF

Product Name: The acheter Kreutzer Sonata and other stories (riverrun editions) by Leo Tolstoy NEUF
EAN：9781529410532 UPC：9781529410532 ISBN：9781529410532 MPN：N/A Format：Paperback, 384 pages
How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoys storiesSharon Cameron in her preface to The Kreutzer Sonata and Other StoriesThis second volume of Tolstoys shorter fiction, selected by the acheter critic Sharon Cameron, contains Family Happiness, The Devil and The Kreutzer Sonata, three of Tolstoys unhappy-marriage stories as well as Father Sergius, a story of a loss of identity in ambitious pursuit of holy virtue and Master and Man. Tolstoys antidotes to delusion, fear, jealousy and even madness have an ethical thread pulled through the fabric of different themes and genres.This riverrun edition reissues the translation of Louise and Aylmer Maude, whose influential versions of Tolstoy first brought his work to a wide readership in English..