Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

''The Kreutzer Sonata'' is the self-lacerating confession of a man consumed by sexual jealousy and eaten up by shame and eventually driven to murder his wife. The story caused a sensation when it first appeared and Tolstoy''s wife was appalled that he had drawn on their own experiences together to create a scathing indictment of marriage. ''The Devil'', centring on a young man torn between his pas...