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The Kreutzer Sonata
- Author
- Leo Tolstoy
- Narrator
- Simon Prebble
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 3 February 2012
- Run Time
- 3 hours 30 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Classic fiction
What to expect
One of the world’s greatest novelists, Leo Tolstoy was also the author of a number of superb short stories, one of his best-known being “The Kreutzer Sonata.” This macabre story involves the murder of a wife by her husband. It is a penetrating study of jealousy as well as a piercing complaint about the way in which society educates men and women in matters of sex—a serious condemnation of the mores and attitudes of the wealthy, educated class.
Critics Review
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“Moments of dramatic genius: a wracking vision of marriage as jealousy nourished, hatred voluptuously fed, rage taken for breakfast.”
New York Review of Books
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“Prebble succeeds admirably at presenting Pozdnyshev as both an astute social critic and an overprivileged and slightly unhinged egomaniac who misinterprets everything he sees.”
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Details
- Author
- Leo Tolstoy
- Narrator
- Simon Prebble
- Duration
- 3 hours 30 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 February 2012
- ISBN
- 9781481546157
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Classic fiction
Synopsis
One of the world’s greatest novelists, Leo Tolstoy was also the author of a number of superb short stories, one of his best-known being “The Kreutzer Sonata.” This macabre story involves the murder of a wife by her husband. It is a penetrating study of jealousy as well as a piercing complaint about the way in which society educates men and women in matters of sex—a serious condemnation of the mores and attitudes of the wealthy, educated class.
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