Publisher's Synopsis
When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. Controversial upon publication in 1890, "The Kreutzer Sonata" illuminates Tolstoy's then-feverish Christian ideals, his conflicts with lust and the hypocrisies of nineteenth-century marriage, and his thinking on the role of art and music in society. With a lesson of "The Kreutzer Sonata" at the end of the novel.Other stories are: "Ivan the Fool", "A Lost Opportunity", "Polikushka" or, The Lost of a Wicked Court Servant and "The Candle".This is an annotated edition, which was translated by Benj. R. Tucker.Font used in this annotated edition is Baskerville - 11.
