| | 1 | Author: | Ingersoll, Robert G. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Tolstoy and "The Kreutzer Sonata"  | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | COUNT TOLSTOÏ is a man of genius. He is acquainted with
Russian life from the highest to the lowest—that is to say, from
the worst to the best. He knows the vices of the rich and the
virtues of the poor. He is a Christian, a real believer in the Old
and New Testaments, an honest follower of the Peasant of Palestine.
He denounces luxury and ease, art and music; he regards a flower
with suspicion, believing that beneath every blossom lies a coiled
serpent. He agrees with Lazarus and denounces Dives and the tax-gatherers. He is opposed, not only to doctors of divinity, but of
medicine. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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