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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) |  | Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Dover Publications
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 399012
Media: Paperback
Pages: 144
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.2 x 0.3
ISBN: 0486278050
Dewey Decimal Number: 891.733
EAN: 9780486278056
ASIN: 0486278050
Publication Date: October 13, 1993
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"The Kreutzer Sonata" portrays an intense conflict between sexual desire and moral constraint. "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" is a simple, moving tale of peasant life with a moral lesson; the hero of "The Death of Ivan Ilych," after a lifetime of struggle, finds faith and love only as he faces death. Explanatory footnotes.
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 Classic and Simple... July 3, 2008
Bryce Patrick Davis (Louisville, KY)
I purchased this book of short stories due to it's reference in Into the Wild and it helped me better connect with the main character. "How much land does a man need?", "The Death of Ivan Ilyich", and "The Kreutzer Sonata" are the three stories included and Sonata was by far my favorite. It allows you do identify with the struggles that are occurring in the story.
 Three stories of despair October 7, 2004
C. Gilbert (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The highlight of this book for me had to be re-reading "The Death of Ivan Ilych" again after all these years. I read it for the first time years and years ago as required reading in middle school and this is the first time that I have come back to it since that time. I found myself unsurprisingly better equipped to read and appreciate this story now and was exceptionally pleased to have read it again.
This edition contains three short stories that were written after Tolstoy made his conversion to intense Christian beliefs. They are interesting to read together, particularly given the common theme about characters with mistaken ideas about what will bring them contentment.
"How Much Land Does a Man Need?" is a parable which examines greed and contentment through the story of a peasant who believes that he would be satisfied with his life if only he had a little bit more land.
"The Death of Ivan Ilych" tells the history of an outwardly prosperous but spiritually empty man who dies at the age of 45 after a fall in his home.
In "The Kreutzer Sonata" a man on a train relates to a fellow passenger what the circumstances were that led to the murder of his wife.
It is, at the very least, important to read these stories. The Kreutzer Sonata is particularly important in the history of literature. At its release, it was banned throughout much of Europe for indecency and has been inspiring debate about feminist issues and women characters in literature ever since that time.
The translation used in the Dover Thrift edition is competent, but has its awkward moments and is occasionally clunky and obtuse. I might personally recommend buying a different edition if you are planning a purchase.
A Searing Read... December 28, 2000
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
and should be required for married couples to read together. It should make for some fascinating conversation.Tolstoy adopts a scorched-earth policy in this novel which deflates the "sanctity" of marriage. The protagonist is a man on the edge, and it seems Tolstoy was there with him in the writing of this incandescent novella. Chris McCandless, the ill-fated Alaskan voyager who died in a hunting shelter while trying to escape the ties of civilization, was reading this novel very close to his death. See the nonfiction "Into the Wild" for information on this... I'm sure most of you have read the other two selections in this anthology, so I'll limit my comments to Kreutzer. This novel made my pulse race, a physical reaction I haven't had to a novel in quite a long time.
As a suggestion.... May 7, 2000
Brooke Young (Seattle, WA United States)
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
If you are looking to read the classics from a different perspective, this is an interesting story to read from a feminist theoretic perspective. I highly recommend reading "Intercourse" by Andrea Dworkin, as she includes an analysis of "The Kreutzer Sonata" in her book that provides a complex view of this story. Very interesting.
Story great, edition not October 12, 1999
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
Just returned from Book Discussion Group. Found Dover translation to be far inferior to Penguin Classic.
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