Chopin's Sonatas

Author: Leo Tolstoy
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: This is a love tragedy set in the upper class of 19th-century Russia and is one of the classics in Leo Tolstoy's novels. The playboy Pozdnyev marries a beautiful commoner. Several years later, the dull and repetitive life of marriage makes both of them feel bored. At this time, the charming young musician Trukhachev enters their lives. Their close relationship arouses Pozdnyev's intense jealousy, and in a fit of rage, Pozdnyev kills his innocent wife.