The Kreutzer Sonata least next door to hating humanity, for you pity humanity because it is human." "The Kreutzer Sonata" has been adapted for film well over a dozen times. Some of these include: The novella, inspired by Beethoven's music, in turn gave rise to Leoš Janáček's First String Quartet. In 2000, the Carolina Ballet, with original choreography by Robert Weiss and combining the music of Beethoven, Janáček, and J. Mark Scearce, mounted an innovative production combining dance and drama, with a narrator/actor telling the story and flashbacks leading into the ballet segments. The novella inspired the 1901 painting "Kreutzer Sonata" by René
The King Who Wished to Marry His Daughter the third time, the king's son had set a guard, and she escaped, but leaving a shoe behind. When the king's son tried it on women, a bird sang that it was not that one but the kitchen maid. Every woman failed, and he fell ill. His mother went to the kitchen to talk, and the princess asked to try it. She persuaded her son, and it fit. They married and lived happily ever after. The King Who Wished to Marry His Daughter "The King Who Wished to Marry His Daughter" is a Scottish fairy tale collected by John Francis