# The Devil

Author: Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910; Maude, Aylmer, 1858-1938 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67224

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Devil+Tolstoy&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Towards the end of 1880, when he was fifty-two, Tolstoy one day approached the young tutor who lived in his house at Yasnaya Polyana, and in great agitation asked him to do him a service. The tutor, seeing Tolstoy so moved, asked what he could possibly do for him. In an unready voice Tolstoy replied: "Save me, I am falling!" The tutor, in alarm, inquired what was the matter, to which Tolstoy replied: "I am overcome by sexual desire and feel a complete lack of power to retrain myself. I am in danger of yielding to the temptation. Help me!"

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-devil-67224/chapters/1/index.md)