KREUTZER SONTATA AND OTHER STORIES: FAMILY HAPPINES (En papel)

Datos del libro

• 13.0x20.0cm.
• Nº de páginas: 352 págs.
• Editorial: PENGUIN
• Lengua: INGLÉS
• Encuadernación: Tapa blanda bolsillo
• ISBN: 9780140449600
• Año edicón: 2008
• Plaza de edición: LONDON

Sinopsis

In these four stories, Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) depicts desire in its different manifestations - from idealistic romance to sexual jealousy, from desperate lust to relentless longing. Family Happiness, an early work, portrays the struggles of a couple as they move from courtship and passion through disillusionment to the quieter stage of married love. A passenger tells a bitter tale of sex, suspicion and murder when strangers on a train discuss the nature of love in The Kruetzer Sonata, a novella banned for its scandalous content in 1890. In The Devil, a young man finds it impossible to resist a beautiful peasant woman with whom he had an affair before his marriage, while Father Sergius shows a man going to increasingly desperate ends - from a soldier to monk, to hermit to beggar - in order to avoid the temptations of the flesh.