The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
by Leo Tolstoy
Taste attributes: dramapsychologicalslowfresh & originalheavylinearenclosedemotive & stirringself destruction/implosioncomplex relationship
Boxlist takeAn intimate, slow-burning novel, otherwise balanced. Best if you like patience over pace.
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Pace: slow · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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4.0 / 5
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About This Book
"In "What For?" a Polish family suffers in the aftermath of the insurrection of 1830 to 1831, and in its suffering Tolstoy expresses his outrage at a Russian autocracy whose disastrous policies in the nineteenth century sowed the seeds of revolt in the twentieth. "Divine and Human" takes place around the time of the assassination of the emperor Alexander II in 1881.
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- Author
- Leo Tolstoy
- Published
- 1887
- Pages
- 216
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- Open Library
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