The Kreutzer Sonata

This book includes novellas and stories from the late period of L. N. Tolstoy’s work: “The Kreutzer Sonata” (1889), “Father Sergius” (1898), “Divine and Human” (1906), the play “The Living Corpse” (1900). During this period, the writer revealed himself at full strength as a thinker and spiritual seeker. L. N. Tolstoy’s moral sermon resonates powerfully as well in his journalistic works of the same time: “Confession” (published in Russia in 1906), “I Cannot Be Silent” (1908).

The writer drew conclusions from what he had lived through during the century, and thanks to Tolstoy’s genius, this conclusion largely determined the development of European literature and public thought in the following century.

Contents:

The Kreutzer Sonata

Epilogue to “The Kreutzer Sonata”

The Devil

Father Sergius

The Master and the Servant

Alyosha Gorshok

Korney Vasiliev

What for?

Divine and Human

What I Saw in My Dream…

Khodyinka

[By Accident]

Posthumous Notes of an Elder Fyodor Kuzmich who died on January 20, 1864 in Siberia near Tomsk at the estate of the merchant Khromov

The Living Corpse

Confession

To the Tsar and His Assistants

I Cannot Be Silent

Leo Tolstoy — The Kreutzer Sonata