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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
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Description for The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
Paperback. A collection of love stories that include: "Family Happiness"; "The Kreutzer Sonata"; "The Devil" and "Father Sergius". Translator(s): McDuff, David; Foote, Paul. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 262.
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 jis 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.
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 jis 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.
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140449600
SKU
V9780140449600
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Ref
99-99
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Count Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 on the family estate of Yasnaya Polyana. He took part in the Crimean war and after the defence of Sevastopol wrote The Sevastopol Sketches (1855-6), which established his literary reputation. Among his best known novels are War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). In 1910 at the age of eighty-two ... Read more
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