The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

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Leo Tolstoy, known to the world for his famous novels, also created throughout his sixty-year career as a writer a significant body of works of shorter ficiton. These fictions, like his novels, tend toward a uniqueness in form, even as they explore a set of themes common in the longer works.
The Kreutzer Sonata
(1891) is a penetrating study of jealousy as well as a splenetic complaint about the way in which society educates young men and women in matters of sex. In
The Death of Ivan Ilych
(1886), a symbolic Everyman discovers the inner light of faith and love only when confronted by death.
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
(1886) is a simple, didactic story of peasant life, written by Tolstoy in the wake of a spiritual crisis. All three tales offer readers a splendid introduction to Tolstoy’s work as well as the focused delights of the short story form brought to a pinnacle in the hands of a master.