Original sentence: Gorky relates how Tolstoy once read this passage before himself and Chekhov and that Tolstoy was moved to tears by the end of the reading.He also opposed private property and the institution of marriage and valued the ideals of chastity and sexual abstinence (discussed in Father Sergius and his preface to The Kreutzer Sonata).Other later passages of rare power include the crises of self faced by the protagonists of The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Master and Man, where the main character (in Ilyich) or the reader (in Master and Man) is made painfully aware of the foolisness and emptiness of the protagonists' aspirant lives.Tolstoy's later work is often criticised as being overly didactic and patchily written, but derives a passion and verve from the depth of his austere moral views
Edited sentence: Gorky relates how Tolstoy once read this passage before himself and Checkov and that Tolstoy was moved to tears by the end of the reading.He also opposed private property and the institution of marriage and valued the ideals of chastity and sexual abstinence (discussed in Father Sergius and his infamous preface to The Kreutzer Sonata).Many of the later works are patchily written but derive a passion and verve from the depth of Tolstoy's austere moral views.Other later passages of rare power include the crises of self faced by the main protagonists of The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Master and Man, where the main character (in Ilyich) or the reader (in Master and Man) is made painfully aware of the foolisness and emptiness of the protagonists' aspirant lives.Tolstoy's later work is said to suffer from the distracting prominence of these themes and is often criticised as being overly didactic