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The Kreutzer Sonata

by Leo Tolstoy

First published: 1889
Pages: 199

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Chapter 01
12:32
Chapter 02
10:21
Chapter 03
2:15
Chapter 04
4:47
Chapter 05
6:02
Chapter 06
8:42
Chapter 07
2:32
Chapter 08
3:35
Chapter 09
4:34
Chapter 10
3:41
Chapter 11
5:00
Chapter 12
9:22
Chapter 13
9:51
Chapter 14
6:57
Chapter 15
11:47
Chapter 16
13:21
Chapter 17
10:53
Chapter 18
4:16
Chapter 19
7:36
Chapter 20
8:31
Chapter 21
14:07
Chapter 22
7:12
Chapter 23
8:52
Chapter 24
6:01
Chapter 25
9:49
Chapter 26
9:30
Chapter 27
12:40
Chapter 28
6:26

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On a night train, a restless passenger named Pozdnyshev tells a stranger how he came to kill his wife. What follows is his long, unsparing confession, a case built against jealousy, physical desire, and the whole institution of marriage as he has known it. Tolstoy wrote it during his late religious crisis, and the story doubles as a blunt moral argument, provocative enough that Russian censors banned it. The title comes from the Beethoven violin sonata his wife plays with another man, music Pozdnyshev hears as a kind of seduction. Few short works stirred more argument in their day. Free PDF and EPUB editions are available to download.

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Leo Tolstoy

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time.