The Kreutzer Sonata is a novella by Leo Tolstoy published in 1889 and named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The story is an argument about the idea of jealous rage and its connection to sexual abstinence. The book includes the Kreutzer Sonata and other short stories by Tolstoy. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.