Download or read book The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories (Illustrated) written by Leo Tolstoy and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2014-06-07 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The novella was published in 1889 and promptly censored by the Russian authorities. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of jealous rage. The main character, Pozdnyshev, relates the events leading up to his killing his wife; in his analysis, the root cause for the deed were the "animal excesses" and "swinish connection" governing the relation between the sexes.