By Leo Tolstoy, David McDuff
'The Kreutzer Sonata' is the self-lacerating confession of a guy ate up through sexual jealousy and eaten up through disgrace and finally pushed to homicide his spouse. the tale prompted a sensation while it first seemed and Tolstoy's spouse used to be appalled that he had drawn all alone reports jointly to create a scathing indictment of marriage. 'The Devil', centring on a tender guy torn among his ardour for a peasant woman and his good lifestyles along with his loving spouse, additionally illustrates the impossibility of natural love. 'The cast Coupon' exhibits how an act of corruption can spiral uncontrolled, and 'After the Ball' examines the abuse of energy. Written in the course of a time of religious situation in Tolstoy's existence, those past due tales mirror a global of ethical uncertainties.
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He turned to walk out of the galley when he was arrested suddenly by the near violence of the plane. It was coming towards The Breadwinner very fast and very low. The roar of it obliterated the last of the voices on deck. It turned the sound of feet into an echo. He ran out of the galley with the tea in his hands and had reached the bottom step of the gangway when he heard the strangest sound of all. It was the sound of the Lewis gun being fired. It fired for perhaps half a second and then stopped.
The boy stood rigid. His mind was in an anxiety of explosive intentions. It was his duty to tell Gregson that Jimmy would never hot it up again. “Git some tea, Snowy,” Gregson said. “Some brandy ain’t they, too? Put some o’ that in. Four mugs. You have some brandy too. No, five. ” “Jimmy——” “Go on, bring it up smart. ” He looked with powerful expansiveness and anger at the sky. “I wonder where that sod went? I thought Jimmy’d got him,” so that for a moment the boy thought he was threatening him.
He’s not the type. You give him tea, anyway. ” “Ah, all right,” Gregson said. “Go on. What’s the odds? That’s right. What’s the odds? What’s it matter? ” He furiously threw his cigarette packet and matches across to the German. 50 THE CRUISE OF THE BREADWINNER They lay on the German’s chest. He did not pick them up. Gregson seized bitterly on this significant fact, making much of it. “Too proud to take ’em, anyway. Lower your bloody self to give ’em all you got and then they bleedin’ insult you.
