The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

This volume includes The Kreutzer Sonata, Ivan the Fool, A lost opportunity, Polikushka, The candle. The stories are mainly about love, but they take very different attitudes towards it. Tolstoy knows that jis readers have fallen in love and also, often, fallen out of it; they have wanted to kill their loved ones; they have lusted vigorously; or desperately sought the approval and even worship of others - Tolstoy depends on our own memories to entagle us in his tragic stories.