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DEVIL, The (Book); KREUTZER Sonata, The (Book : Tolstoy); TOLSTOY, Leo, graf, 1828-1910; RUSSIAN novelists; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL fiction; TEMPTATION

This article presents information on the book "The Devil," by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy and translated by Aylmer Maude. This book is evaluated in comparison with another book of the same period, namely, "The Kreutzer Sonata." Maude makes clear in preface that the present work is founded directly upon a critical incident in the life of the Tolstoy, when he was fifty-two, and talk concerning a sexual temptation into which he had fallen. "The Devil" was not published in Russia until after the author's death, and until now it has remained unknown to readers of English.