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Sep 21, 2022 · CHAPTER I. Travellers left and entered our car at every stopping of the train. Three persons, however, remained, bound, like myself, for the farthest station: a lady neither young nor pretty, smoking cigarettes, with a thin face, a cap on her head, and wearing a semi-masculine outer garment; then her companion, a very loquacious gentleman of about forty years, with baggage entirely new and ...
- Chapter I.
- Chapter II.
- Chapter III.
- Chapter IV.
- Chapter v.
- Chapter VI.
- Chapter VII.
- Chapter VIII.
- Chapter IX.
- Chapter X.
Travellers left and entered our car at every stopping of the train. Three persons, however, remained, bound, like myself, for the farthest station: a lady neither young nor pretty, smoking cigarettes, with a thin face, a cap on her head, and wearing a semi-masculine outer garment; then her companion, a very loquacious gentleman of about forty years...
Scarcely had the old man gone when a general conversation began. "There's a little Old Testament father for you," said the clerk. "He is a Domostroy,"said the lady. "What savage ideas about a woman and marriage!" "Yes, gentlemen," said the lawyer, "we are still a long way from the European ideas upon marriage. First, the rights of woman, then free ...
I resumed mine, also. The lawyer and the lady whispered together. I was sitting beside Posdnicheff, and I maintained silence. I desired to talk to him, but I did not know how to begin, and thus an hour passed until we reached the next station. There the lawyer and the lady went out, as well as the clerk. We were left alone, Posdnicheff and I. "They...
"Well, I am going then to tell you my life, and my whole frightful history,—yes, frightful. And the story itself is more frightful than the outcome." He became silent for a moment, passed his hands over his eyes, and began:— "To be understood clearly, the whole must be told from the beginning. It must be told how and why I married, and what I was b...
"Yes: for ten years I lived the most revolting existence, while dreaming of the noblest love, and even in the name of that love. Yes, I want to tell you how I killed my wife, and for that I must tell you how I debauched myself. I killed her before I knew her. "I killed THE wife when I first tasted sensual joys without love, and then it was that I k...
"Yes, so it is; and that went farther and farther with all sorts of variations. My God! when I remember all my cowardly acts and bad deeds, I am frightened. And I remember that 'me' who, during that period, was still the butt of his comrades' ridicule on account of his innocence. "And when I hear people talk of the gilded youth, of the officers, of...
"And it was very easy to capture me, since I was brought up under artificial conditions, like cucumbers in a hothouse. Our too abundant nourishment, together with complete physical idleness, is nothing but systematic excitement of the imagination. The men of our society are fed and kept like reproductive stallions. It is sufficient to close the val...
"And note, also, this falsehood, of which all are guilty; the way in which marriages are made. What could there be more natural? The young girl is marriageable, she should marry. What simpler, provided the young person is not a monster, and men can be found with a desire to marry? Well, no, here begins a new hypocrisy. "Formerly, when the maiden ar...
"Do you know," suddenly continued Posdnicheff, "that this power of women from which the world suffers arises solely from what I have just spoken of?" "What do you mean by the power of women?" I said. "Everybody, on the contrary, complains that women have not sufficient rights, that they are in subjection." "That's it; that's it exactly," said he, v...
"That, then, was the way in which I was captured. I was in love, as it is called; not only did she appear to me a perfect being, but I considered myself a white blackbird. It is a commonplace fact that there is no one so low in the world that he cannot find some one viler than himself, and consequently puff with pride and self-contentment. I was in...
Mar 18, 2006 · About this eBook. Author. Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. Translator. Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson, 1854-1939. Title. The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories. Contents. The Kreutzer Sonata — Ivan the Fool — A Lost Opportunity — Polikushka — The Candle.
- Leo Tolstoy
- The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
- 2008
- Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson, 1854-1939
THE KREUTZER SONATA. by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy First Published in 1889 Translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude Distributed by the Tolstoy Library OnLine But I say unto you, that everyone that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Matt. v. 28.
The Kreutzer Sonata ( Russian: Крейцерова соната, Kreitzerova Sonata) is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The novella was published in 1889, and was promptly censored by the Russian authorities. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description ...
- Leo Tolstoy
- 1889
The Kreutzer Sonata, And Other Stories Written: 1889 Source: Original text from Gutenberg.org, translated by Benjamin Tucker, the American Anarchist Transcription/Markup: Andy Carloff
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THE KREUTZER SONATA ing bouts of some wealthy merchant with whom they were both acquainted, but the old man didn’t let him fi nish; instead, he began describing his own past binges at Kunavino.3 Obviously he was proud of his participation and described with obvious delight how once, together with this same rich mer-
