FAMILY HAPPINESS

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books‘I’m not the sort of husband you dream of when you’re walking alone along the avenue in the evening am I? And it would be a disaster wouldn’t it?’How does love die? This question lies at the heart of Tolstoy’s desperately sad novella. It tells the story of seventeen-year-old Masha who despite their differences falls passionately in love with an older man and marries him. Soon however the gap between them becomes unbridgeable.