THE ATHENAEUMThe Kreutzer SonataLeo Tolstoy
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The Kreutzer Sonata
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textOn a long train journey a man tells a stranger how he came to kill his wife, and why he blames marriage itself. Tolstoy’s story of 1889 was forbidden by the Russian censor, and in 1890 the United States Post Office refused to carry newspapers that printed it. Beethoven’s sonata, which sets things off, is innocent.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 4 hr 20 min
- Where to find it
- The Unwelcome Spines, beyond the Restricted Catalogue
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #689. In the public domain in the United States.