Леди Макбет Мценского уезда
By Николай Семенович Лесков
Cover: Flowering Alley (1898) by Viktor Borisov-Musatov (1870-1905) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
A bored merchant's wife, Katerina Izmailova, takes the clerk Sergey as her lover and goes to murder to keep him. Leskov's tale of passion and crime ends in Siberian chains. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.