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The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy

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Project Gutenberg eBook
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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories eBook
57,154 words, approx. 191 pages
The complete online text of The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy.


Biography

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Biography of Leo (Nikolaevich) Tolstoy
13391 words, approx. 44.6 pages
Leo Tolstoy is one of the most important novelists in Western literature. The breadth of his vision and the range of his accomplishments are immense. His 1928- 1958 collected works comprise 90 volumes, and a projected new edition will reach at least 134...
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Biography of Leo Tolstoy
11293 words, approx. 37.6 pages
Few writers and thinkers have had the widespread, long-lasting influence of Russia's Leo Tolstoy. Besides creating War and Peace and Anna Karenina, two of the most celebrated novels in world literature, Tolstoy was a philosopher whose theories of Christi...
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Biography of Leo Tolstoy
2717 words, approx. 9.1 pages
The Russian novelist and moral philosopher Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) ranks as one of the world's great writers, and his War and Peace has been called the greatest novel ever written. Leo Tolstoy was one of the great rebels of all time, a man who during a l...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Kreutzer Sonata Information
1,152 words, approx. 4 pages
The Kreutzer Sonata is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1889 and promptly censored by the Russian authorities. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of jealous rage. The main character,...


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Fanfare
String Quartets: No. 1, "Kreutzer Sonata;" No. 2, "Intimate Letters." Allegro.1 Violin Sonata
05/01/2008: 661 words, approx. 2 pages
JANÃCEK String Quartets: No. 1, "Kreutzer Sonata;" No. 2, "Intimate Letters." Allegro.1 Violin Sonata * Dante Qrt; Krysia Osostowicz (vn);1 Ferenc Rados (pn)1 * MERIDIAN 84560 (66:50) Leos Janácek's two string quartets have long stood among the 20th century's most important contributions to...
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Strings
Beethoven: Violin Concerto Op. 61, "Kreutzer" Sonata, Op. 47
04/01/2008: 358 words, approx. 1 pages
Beethoven: Violin Concerto Op. 61, "Kreutzer" Sonata, Op. 47. Vadim Repin, violin; Martha Argerich, piano; Vienna Philharmonic, Riccardo Muti, cond. (Deutsche Grammophon B0009663-02) This two-CD recording presents some of today's greatest players in two of the literature's greatest masterpieces, but the performances are...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Bettina L. Knapp
7,175 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following essay, Knapp details the archetypal influence of Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata on Tolstoy's novella, especially as it manifests in the narrative's structure and themes and correlates with both Tolstoy's psychological condition and that of his fictional protagonist.
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Critical Essay by Ruth Crego Benson
7,075 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following excerpt, Benson details Tolstoy's views on the nature of sex, women, and men represented in The Kreutzer Sonata and his other late fiction.
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Critical Essay by Dorothy Green
6,365 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, originally delivered as a lecture in 1966, Green discusses the connections between The Kreutzer Sonata and Beethoven's musical composition, focusing on similarities of dramatic feeling and structure in both works.
 


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The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy

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