Family Happiness
By Leo Tolstoy

This novella, by the author of the long, great Russian novels, concerns the evolution of love inside a marriage, a subject as relevant now as it ever was. The minute shifts of feeling chronicled in the relationship between Másha and Sergéy Mikháylych address perpetual questions about the human condition and the possibility of true amorous equality, as well as the role character plays in the development of romance.