Two characters in this work get into a violent argument about whether a certain dog won a medal or merely an honorable mention.
Two characters in this work get into a violent argument about whether a certain dog won a medal or merely an honorable mention. When he is summoned to the bedside of someone he has mortally wounded, the protagonist of this work asks if he can put on slippers first, because it would look silly for him to go shoeless. In this work, the hypocrisy of an old tradesman who rants against education for women is revealed when another character points out that the old man had earlier been bragging about the orgies he attended at the (*) Kuvanin Fair. Shortly after that incident, the protagonist reveals to a lawyer that he was the defendant in the trial they just mentioned. A year after its publication, its author added an epilogue advocating sexual abstinence. For 10 points, name this novella in which Pozdnyshev tells a train passenger of how he stabbed his wife for possibly having an affair with a violinist, by Leo Tolstoy.
Two characters in this work get into a violent argument about whether a certain dog won a medal or merely an honorable mention.
The {Kreutzer Sonata} [or {Kreitzerova Sonata}]