The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

Product Description <br/>The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories (1890) is a collection of stories by Leo Tolstoy. The Kreutzer Sonata is the story of a husband who suspects his wife of having illicit relations with a musician; the story deals with sexual abstinence and jealous wrath. All the works in the volume, including Ivan the Fool and The Candle, present the socialist ideals and moral, religious, and existential themes of Tolstoy's final creative period.<br/> About the Author <br/>Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist and moral philosopher noted for his ideas of nonviolent resistance. His diary reveals an incessant pursuit of a morally justified life. He was known for his generosity to the peasants.His best known novels are “War and Peace” (1869), which Tolstoy regarded as an epic rather than a novel, and “Anna Karenina” (1877). His work was admired in his time by Dostoyevsky, Checkov, Turgenev, and Flaubert, and later by Virginia Woolf and James Joyce.