Jealousy as a theme in literature

Kreutzer Sonata
by Leo Tolstoy

He Knew He Was Right
by Anthony Trollope

The Vehement Flame
by Margaret Deland

Griffith Gaunt or Jealousy
by Charles Reade

Othello
by William Shakespeare

Vasari's Lives of the Artists - Andrea Tafi

Vasari's Lives of the Artists
Andrea Tafi, Painter of Florence
(1213-1294)
London: Henry Bohn & Co., 1850, Volume 1, page 77

Vasari's Lives of the Artists - Niccolo and Giovanni of Pisa

Vasari's Lives of the Artists
Niccolo and Giovanni, Sculptors and Architects of Pisa
(Niccolo born c. 1205, died 1278) (Giovanni born __, died 1320)
London: Henry Bohn & Co., 1850, Volume 1, page 60

Vasari's Lives of the Artists - Arnolfo di Lapo

Vasari's Lives of the Artists
Arnolfo di Lapo, Architect of Florence
(1232-1310)
In the translation by Mrs. Jonathan Foster
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850

Vasari's Lives of the Artists - Cimabue

Vasari's Lives of the Artists
Giovanni Cimabue, Florentine Painter
(Born 1240 - Died 1303)
In the translation by Mrs. Jonathan Foster
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850

Fictional portrait of Tolstoy's sister

Faust - A Story in Nine Letters
by Ivan Turgenev
In A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories
New York: Macmillan and Co., 1898

First published in 1855, the character Vera in Ivan Turgenev's Faust is said to be a fictional portrait of Leo Tolstoy's sister, Mariya Nikolayevna Tolstaya. The story is said to have infuriated Tolstoy. The relationship between Mariya Nikolayevna and Turgenev was in part to blame for the rift between Tolstoy and Turgenev.

Tolstoy's last days as related by his sister

Reminiscences of Tolstoy
by his son, Ilya Lvovich Tolstoy
Translated by George Calderon
New York: The Century Co., 1914

Letter from Mariya Nikolayevna Tolstaya to Sofia (aka Sonya) Tolstaya. Page 388.

On April 22, 1911, Tolstoy's sister, Mariya Nikolayevna Tolstaya (aka Masha), wrote to Tolstoy's wife, Sonya. She was responding to a letter from Sonya. Mariya relates her thoughts on Tolstoy's flight from home in October 1910, his visit to her at Shamardino, his reasons for leaving home, and on his death. The letter is full of compassion for Sonya while, at the same time, acknowledging that something must have been wrong for Tolstoy have come to the decision to leave his beloved Yasnaya Polyana.