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The Kreutzer sonata

Label
The Kreutzer sonata
Language
eng
resource.accompanyingMatter
technical information on music
Form of composition
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Format of music
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Literary text for sound recordings
fiction
Main title
The Kreutzer sonata
Medium
electronic resource
Summary
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
Target audience
adult
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