Free The Devil by Leo Tolstoy

out whether Stepanida is alive.”
    The servant already knew all about it, and told him she had died an hour ago.
    “Well, all right. Now leave me alone. When the police officer or the magistrate comes, let me know.”
    The police officer and magistrate arrived next morning, and Yevgeny, having bidden his wife and baby farewell, was taken to prison.
    He was tried. It was during the early days of trial by jury, and the verdict was one of temporary insanity, and he was sentenced only to perform church penance.
    He had been kept in prison for nine months and was then confined in a monastery for one month.
    He had begun to drink while still in prison, continued to do so in the monastery, and returned home an enfeebled, irresponsible drunkard.
    Varvara Alexeevna assured them that she had alwayspredicted this. It was, she said, evident from the way he disputed. Neither Liza nor Marya Pavlovna could understand how the affair had happened, but for all that, they did not believe what the doctors said, namely, that he was mentally deranged—a psychopath. They could not accept that, for they knew that he was saner than hundreds of their acquaintances.
    And indeed, if Yevgeny Irtenev was mentally deranged when he committed this crime, then everyone is similarly insane. The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

OTHER TITLES IN THE ART OF THE NOVELLA SERIES
    BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER
HERMAN MELVILLE
    THE LESSON OF THE MASTER
HENRY JAMES
    MY LIFE
ANTON CHEKHOV
    THE DEVIL
LEO TOLSTOY
    THE TOUCHSTONE
EDITH WHARTON
    THE HOUND OF THE
BASKERVILLES
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
    THE DEAD
JAMES JOYCE
    FIRST LOVE
IVAN TURGENEV
    A SIMPLE HEART
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
    THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING
RUDYARD KIPLING
    MICHAEL KOHLHAAS
HEINRICH VON KLEIST
    THE BEACH OF FALESÁ
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
    THE HORLA
GUY DE MAUPASSANT
    THE ETERNAL HUSBAND
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
    THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED
HADLEYBURG
MARK TWAIN
    THE LIFTED VEIL
GEORGE ELIOT
    THE GIRL WITH THE
GOLDEN EYES
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
    A SLEEP AND A FORGETTING
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
    BENITO CERENO
HERMAN MELVILLE
    MATHILDA
MARY SHELLEY
    STEMPENYU: A JEWISH ROMANCE
SHOLEM ALEICHEM
    FREYA OF THE SEVEN ISLES
JOSEPH CONRAD
    HOW THE TWO IVANS
QUARRELLED
NIKOLAI GOGOL
    MAY DAY
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
    RASSELAS, PRINCE ABYSSINIA
SAMUEL JOHNSON
    THE DIALOGUE OF THE DOGS
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
    THE LEMOINE AFFAIR
MARCEL PROUST
    THE COXON FUND
HENRY JAMES
    THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH
LEO TOLSTOY
    TALES OF BELKIN
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN
    THE AWAKENING
KATE CHOPIN
    ADOLPHE
BENJAMIN CONSTANT
    THE COUNTRY OF
THE POINTED FIRS
SARAH ORNE JEWETT
    PARNASSUS ON WHEELS
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
    THE NICE OLD MAN
AND THE PRETTY GIRL
ITALO SVEVO
    LADY SUSAN
JANE AUSTEN
    JACOB’S ROOM
VIRGINIA WOOLF
    THE DUEL
GIACOMO CASANOVA
    THE DUEL
ANTON CHEKHOV
    THE DUEL
JOSEPH CONRAD
    THE DUEL
HEINRICH VON KLEIST
    THE DUEL
ALEXANDER KUPRIN
    THE ALIENIST
MACHADO DE ASSIS
    ALEXANDER’S BRIDGE
WILLA CATHER
    FANFARLO
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
    THE DISTRACTED PREACHER
THOMAS HARDY
    THE ENCHANTED WANDERER
NIKOLAI LESKOV