When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affairwith her music partner his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder.Controver... » 

When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affairwith her music partner his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder.Controversial upon publication in 1890 The Kreutzer Sonata illuminatesTolstoys thenfeverish Christian ideals his conflicts with lust and thehypocrisies of nineteenthcentury marriage and his thinking on the role of artand music in society. In her Introduction Doris Lessing shows how relevantThe Kreutzer Sonata is to our understanding of Tolstoy the artist as well asto feminism and literature. This Modern Library Paperback Classic also containsTolstoys Sequel to the Kruetzer Sonata «