The Kreutzer Sonata

Leo Tolstoy

⏱ 7 minRussian classic

On a night train, a haggard stranger confesses how jealousy, and a violin sonata, drove him to murder his wife. Tolstoy's ferocious late reckoning with marriage and desire.

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