A jealous husband confesses on a train to murdering his wife, in a fevered attack on marriage and desire. Tolstoy's controversial novella.
Books mentioned in The Kreutzer Sonata (2)
A Thousand and One Nights: “I suspected, I am ashamed to say, that she, this queen of 'The Thousand and One Nights,' deceived me with my serf”
Little Feet by Alexander Pushkin: “Take all the poetry, the painting, the sculpture, beginning with Pouschkine's 'Little Feet,' with 'Venus and Phryne,'”
Books that mention The Kreutzer Sonata (3)
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather: “The divinity student, who was always whispering soft things to her, sent her "The Kreutzer Sonata."”
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “I’ve read ‘Anna Karenina’ and the ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ of course”
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose: “it seems far less likely that one passenger would tell another (as happens in Tolstoy's "The Kreutzer Sonata").”