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This is a list of works by Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), including his novels, novellas, short stories, fables and parables, plays, and nonfiction.
Prose fiction
Novels
- The Autobiographical Trilogy
- Cossacks (Казаки, 1852–1863)
- War and Peace (Война и мир, 1864–1869, rev. 1873)
- Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина, 1873–1877)
- Resurrection (Воскресение, 1889–1899)
- Hadji Murat (Хаджи-Мурат, 1896–1904)
Novellas
- Landowner's Morning (Утро помещика, 1856)
- Two Hussars (Два гусара, 1856)
- Family Happiness (Семейное счастье, 1859)
- Polikúshka (Поликушка, 1860)
- Death of Ivan Ilyich (Смерть Ивана Ильича, 1882–1886)
- Walk in the Light While There is Light (Ходите в свете, пока есть свет, 1888)
- Kreutzer Sonata (Крейцерова соната, 1887–1889)
- Devil (Дьявол, 1889, pub. 1911)
- Master and Man (Хозяин и работник, 1895)
- Father Sergius (Отец Сергий, 1890–1898)
- The Forged Coupon (Фальшивый купон, 1902–1904)
Short stories
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Folk Tales, Fables and Parables
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Adaptations
- "Croesus and Fate" (adaptation of the Greek legend) (1886)
- "Françoise" (adaptation of a story by Guy de Maupassant) ("Франсуаза", 1891)
- "The Coffee-House of Surat" (adaptation of a story by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre) ("Суратская кофейная", 1893)
- "Too Dear!" (adaption of a story by Guy de Maupassant) ("Дорого стоит", 1897)
- "Poor People" (adaptation of a story by Victor Hugo) ("Бедные люди") (1905)
- "Power of Childhood" (adaptation of Hugo's poem, "La guerre civile") ("Сила детства", 1908, pub. 1912)
Stories for Children
From ABC (1872) and New ABC (1875) Textbooks
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Additional Stories for Children
- "Karma" (Adaptation of a Hindu Tale) ("Карма", 1894)
- "Two Different Versions of the History of the Beehive" [ru] ("Две различные версии истории улья с лубочной крышкой") (1900, pub. 1912)
- "Wolf" ("Волк") (1908)
Unfinished
- "A Christmas Night" ("Святочная ночь") (1853, pub. 1928)
- "How Russian Soldiers Die" [ru] ("Как умирают русские солдаты") (1854, pub. 1928)
- "Uncle Zhdanov and Mr. Chernov" ("Дяденька Жданов и кавалер Чернов") (1854, pub. 1932)
- "Idyll" [de; it] ("Идиллия") (1861–1862, pub. 1911)
- "Tikhon and Melanya" (1862)
- Novel set during the reign of Peter the Great (1870–1879) (fragments published as Peter the First, Prince Fyodor Shchetinin, and Hundred Years in 1936)
- "The Decemberists" (Декабристы) (Planned 1863, written 1878–1879, fragments published 1884)
- "Who is Right?" ("Кто прав?") (1891–1893, pub. 1911)
- "Khodynka: An Incident of the Coronation of Nicholas II" ("Ходынка", 1898, published 1912)
- "Memoirs of a Madman" (1884–1903)
- "Posthumous Notes of the Hermit Fëdor Kuzmich" ("Посмертные записки старца Федора Кузьмича") (1905, published 1912)
- "Father Vasily" [de] ("Отец Василий") (1906, pub. 1911)
- "There Are No Guilty People" (1909)
Plays
- The Power of Darkness (Власть тьмы, 1886)
- The First Distiller (1886)
- The Fruits of Enlightenment (Плоды просвещения, 1889)
- The Light Shines in Darkness (unfinished, 1890)
- The Living Corpse (Живой труп, 1900; a.k.a. Redemption)
- The Cause of It All (1910)
Non-fiction
Books
- Religious Treatise in Three Volumes (untitled)
- Introduction: A Confession (1879–1880)
- Vol. 1: A Criticism of Dogmatic Theology (1880–1882)
- Vol. 2: The Four Gospels Harmonized and Translated (1880–1882)
- The Gospel in Brief (Containing only the summaries and translations from Vol. 2) (1882)
- Vol. 3: What I Believe (aka My Religion) (1884)
- What Shall We Do Then? (1886)
- On Life (1887)
- Power and Liberty (1888)
- The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1891–1894)
- What Is Art? (1897)
- Shakespeare and the Drama (1909)
- A Calendar of Wisdom (compilation; 1909)
Pamphlets
- Why Do Men Intoxicate Themselves? (1890)
- Christianity and Patriotism (1894)
- The Christian Teaching (1897)
- Patriotism and Government (1900)
- The Slavery of Our Times (1900)
- Need it Be So? (1900)
- The Only Means (1901)
- Appeal to the Working People (1902)
- What Is Religion and What is its Essence? (1902)
- Bethink Yourselves! (1904)
- A Great Iniquity (1905)
- The End of the Age (1905)
- The Meaning of the Russian Revolution (1907)
- The Law of Love and the Law of Violence [ru] (1908)
- The Inevitable Revolution (1909)
Articles
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Letters and Correspondence
Among Tolstoy's countless letters and pieces of correspondence, the works below consist mostly of those that were published in Tolstoy's lifetime or shortly after his death.
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Supplements to Works of Others
- "To N. N. Ge's Painting: 'Christ's Last Discourse with His Disciples'" (1886)
- Supplementary essay for Timofei Bondarev's The Triumph of the Farmer or Industry and Parasitism (1888)
- "Apropos of A. I. Ershov's Book Recollections from Sevastopol" (1889)
- Introduction to the Russian translation of Alice Stockham's Tokology: A Book for Every Woman (1890)
- "The First Step": An introduction to the Russian translation of Howard Williams's The Ethics of Diet (1891)
- Introduction to Henri-Frédéric Amiel's Journal (1893)
- Introduction to The Works of Guy de Maupassant (1894)
- Introduction to S. T. Semenov's Peasant Stories (1894)
- Epilogue to Drozhzhin's Life and Death (1895)
- "Help!": A postscript to "An Appeal to Help the Dukhobors Persecuted in the Caucasus" written by associates of Tolstoy (1896)
- Preface to Carpenter's article, "Modern Science" (1898)
- Introduction to W. von Polenz's Der Büttnerbauer (1902)
From Diary
- "A History of Yesterday" ("История вчерашнего дня") (1851)
- "Grateful Soil" ("Благодарная почва") (1910)
Pedagogical works
ABC (Азбука) (1872)
Source:
BOOK 1
BOOK 2
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BOOK 3
BOOK 4
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New ABC & Russian Books for Reading (1875)
Source:
New ABC (Новая Азбука)
- Combination of phonetic and grammatical instruction with many simple untitled stories and fables
- Titled Stories (see Stories for Children)
- Prayers in Old East Slavic
Russian Book for Reading (Русская Книга Для Чтения) (Volumes 1-4)
A collection of stories, most of which appeared in the four original ABC volumes.
References
- A letter written with his wife to his wife's younger sister that is treated by critics as a short story.
- A non-fictional sketch.
- An alteration of Guy de Maupassant's "Port".
- Planned but abandoned sequel to War and Peace.
- Hilf: a zamlbukh fir liṭeraṭur un ḳunṣt.
- "Translator's Note from "The Gospel in Brief" published by T.Y. Crowell". 2001-03-10. Retrieved 2013-12-31.
- "On Life". Northwestern University Press. n.d. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
This critical edition is the first accurate translation of this unsung classic of Russian thought into English, based on a study of manuscript pages of Tolstoy's drafts, and the first scholarly edition of this work in any language.
- Азбука.
- "НЭБ - Национальная электронная библиотека".
External links
- Works by Leo Tolstoy in eBook form at Standard Ebooks
- Leo Tolstoy Archive, at RevoltLib.com
- Leo Tolstoy Archive, at Marxists.org
- Leo Tolstoy Archive, at TheAnarchistLibrary.org
- Works by Leo Tolstoy bibliography in eBook form at Standard Ebooks
- A comprehensive anthology of Tolstoy's short fiction at Standard Ebooks
- Online Books Page — free, public-domain books and articles by Tolstoy available online