Leo Tolstoy bibliography

This is a list of works by Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), including his novels, novellas, short stories, plays and non-fiction.

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Leo Tolstoy in his later years. Early 20th century.

Fiction

Novels

• War and Peace (Война и мир [Voyna i mir], 1869)
• Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина [Anna Karenina], 1877)
• Resurrection (Воскресение [Voskresenie], 1899)

Novellas

• The Autobiographical Trilogy
  • Childhood (Детство [Detstvo], 1852)
  • Boyhood (Отрочество [Otrochestvo], 1854)
  • Youth (Юность [Yunost'], 1856)
• Family Happiness (Семейное счастье [Semeynoe schast'e], 1859)
• The Cossacks (Казаки [Kazaki], 1863)
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Смерть Ивана Ильича [Smert' Ivana Il'icha], 1886)
• The Kreutzer Sonata (Крейцерова соната [Kreitserova Sonata], 1889)
• The Devil (Дьявол [Dyavol] 1911, written 1889)
• The Forged Coupon (Фальшивый купон [Fal'shivyi kupon], 1911)
• Hadji Murat (Хаджи-Мурат [Khadzhi-Murat], 1912, 1917)

Short stories

"The Raid" ("Набег" ["Nabeg"], 1852) "The Wood-Felling" ("Рубка леса" ["Rubka lesa"], 1855) "Sevastopol Sketches" ("Севастопольские рассказы" ["Sevastopolskie rasskazy"], 1855–1856) "Sevastopol in December 1854" (1855) "Sevastopol in May 1855" (1855) "Sevastopol in August 1855" (1856) "A Billiard-Marker's Notes" ("Записки маркера" ["Zapiski markera"], 1855) "The Snowstorm" ("Метель" ["Metel"], 1856) "Two Hussars" ("Два гусара" ["Dva gusara"], 1856) "A Landlord's Morning" ("Утро помещика", 1856) "Lucerne" ("Люцерн" ["Lyutsern"], 1857) "Albert" ("Альберт" ["Al'bert"], 1858) "Three Deaths" ("Три смерти" ["Tri smerti"], 1859) "The Porcelain Doll" (1863, a letter written with his wife to his wife's younger sister that is treated by critics as a short story) "Polikúshka" ("Поликушка" ["Polikushka"], 1863) "God Sees the Truth, But Waits" ("Бог правду видит, да не скоро скажет" ["Bog pravdu vidit, da ne skoro skazhet"], 1872) "The Prisoner in the Caucasus" ("Кавказский пленник" ["Kavkazskii plennik"], 1872) "The Bear-Hunt" (1872) "Memoirs of a Madman" (1884) "Croesus and Fate" (1886) "An Old Acquaintance" (1887) "Kholstomer" or "Strider" ("Холстомер", 1888) "A Lost Opportunity" (1889) "Françoise" ("Франсуаза", 1891, alteration of Guy de Maupassant's "Port") "A Talk Among Leisured People" (1893) "Walk in the Light While There is Light" (1893) "The Coffee-House of Surrat" ("Суратская кофейная", 1893) "The Young Tsar" (1894) "Master and Man" ("Хозяин и работник" ["Khozyain and rabotnik"], 1895) "Too Dear!" ("Дорого стоит" ["Dorogo stoit"], 1897) "Father Sergius" ("Отец Сергий" ["Otetz Sergij"], 1898) "The Long Exile" (1899)

"Work, Death, and Sickness" (1903) "Three Questions" ("Три вопроса" ["Tri voprosa"], 1903) "After the Ball" ("После бала" ["Posle bala"], (1903) "The Posthumous Notes of the Starets Feodor Kuzmich" ("Посмертные записки старца Федора Кузьмича") (Unfinished, 1905, published in 1912) "Alyosha the Pot" ("Алёша Горшок" ["Alyosha Gorshok"], 1905) "Divine and Human" ("Божеское и человеческое", 1906) "What For?" ("За что?", 1906) "There Are No Guilty People" (1909) "Three Days in the Village" ("Три дня в деревне", non-fictional sketch, 1910) "Khodynka: An Incident of the Coronation of Nicholas II" ("Ходынка", 1910) "My Dream" ("Что я видел во сне", 1911) Stories that have not been translated into English: "Разжалованный" (1856) "Две лошади" (1880) "Прыжок" (1880) "Рассказ Аэронавта" (1880) "Карма" (1894) "Бедные люди" (1905) "Корней Васильев" (1906) "Ягоды" (1906) "Благодарная почва" (1910) "Разговор с прохожим" (1910, written 1909) "Песни на деревне" (1910, written 1909) "Идиллия" (1911, written 1861-62) "Кто прав?" (1911, written 1891—1893) "Отец Василий" (1911, written 1906) "Нечаянно" (1911, written 1910) "Сон молодого царя" (1912, written 1894) "Сила детства" (1912, written 1908) "Проезжий и крестьянин" (1917, written 1909) "История вчерашнего дня" (1928, written 1851) "Святочная ночь" (1928, written 1853) "Как умирают русские солдаты" (1928, written 1854) "Отрывки рассказов из деревенской жизни" (1932, written 1860—1862)

Fables and parables

"What Men Live By" ("Чем люди живы" ["Chem lyudi zhivy"], 1881) "Ilyás" ("Ильяс", 1885) "Where Love Is, God Is" ("Где любовь, там и бог", 1885) "Evil Allures, But Good Endures" ("Вражье лепко, а божье крепко", 1885) "Wisdom of Children" ("Девчонки умнее стариков", 1885) "Quench the Spark" ("Упустишь огонь, не потушишь" ["Upustish ogon', ne potushish"], 1885) "Two Old Men" ("Два старика", 1885) "The Candle" ("Свечка", 1886) "Ivan the Fool" ("Сказка об дураке", 1885) "The Three Hermits" ("Три Старца", 1886) "Promoting a Devil" ("Как чертёнок краюшку выкупал", 1886) "Repentance" ("Кающийся грешник", 1886) "The Grain" ("Зерно с куриное яйцо", 1886)

"How Much Land Does a Man Need?" ("Много ли человеку земли нужно", 1886) "The Godson" ("Крестник", 1886) "The Empty Drum" ("Работник Емельян и пустой барабан", 1891) "The Restoration of Hell" ("Разрушение ада и восстановление его", 1903, written 1902) "Esarhaddon, King of Assyria" ("Ассирийский царь Асархадон", 1903) Fables that have not been translated into English: "Два брата и золото" (1886, written 1885) "Три сына" (1889, written 1887) "Три притчи" (1895) "Две различные версии истории улья с лубочной крышкой" (1912, written 1900) "Волк" (1909, written 1908)

Plays

• The Power of Darkness (Власть тьмы [Vlast' t'my], 1886)
• The First Distiller (1886)
• The Light Shines in Darkness (1890)
• The Fruits of Enlightenment (Плоды просвещения [Plody prosvesheniya], 1891)
• The Living Corpse (Живой труп [Zhivoi trup], 1900)
• The Cause of it All (1910)

Unfinished

• The Decembrists (Декабристы, abandoned 1863. planned sequel to War and Peace)

Non-fiction

Philosophical works

• A Confession (1879) – Volume 1 of an untitled four-part work[1]
• A Criticism of Dogmatic Theology (1880) – Volume 2 of an untitled four-part work
• The Gospel in Brief, or A Short Exposition of the Gospel (1881)
• The Four Gospel Unified and Translated (1881) – Volume 3 of an untitled four-part work
• Church and State (1882)
• What I Believe (also called My Religion) (1884) – Volume 4 of an untitled four-part work
• What Is to Be Done? (also translated as What Then Must We Do?) (1886)
• On Life (1887)
• The Love of God and of One's Neighbour (1889)
• Supplementary essay for Timofei Bondarev's The Triumph of the Farmer or Industry and Parasitism (1888)
• Why Do Men Intoxicate Themselves? (1890)
• The First Step: on vegetarianism (1892)[2]
• The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1893)
• Non-Activity (1893)
• The Meaning of Refusal of Military Service (1893)
• Reason and Religion (1894)
• Religion and Morality (1894)
• Christianity and Patriotism (1894)
• Non-Resistance: letter to Ernest H. Crospy (1896)
• How to Read the Gospels (1896)
• The Deception of the Church (1896)
• Letter to the Liberals[3] (1898)
• Christian Teaching (1898)
• On Suicide (1900)
• The Slavery of Our Times (1900)
• Thou Shalt Not Kill (1900)
• Reply to the Holy Synod (1901)
• The Only Way (1901)
• On Religious Toleration (1901)
• What Is Religion and What is its Essence? (1902)
• To the Orthodox Clergy (1903)
• Bethink Yourselves! (1904)
• Thoughts of Wise Men (compilation; 1904)
• The Only Need (1905)
• The Grate Sin (1905)
• A Cycle of Reading (compilation; 1906)
• Do Not Kill (1906)
• Love Each Other (1906)
• An Appeal to Youth (1907)
• The Law of Love and the Law of Violence (1908)
• The Only Command (1909)
• A Calendar of Wisdom (Путь Жизни [Put' Zhizni]; compilation; 1909)

Works on art and literature

• The Works of Guy de Maupassant (1894)
• What Is Art? (1897)
• Art and Not Art (1897)
• Shakespeare and the Drama (1909)

Articles, publicism

• Meaningless aspirations (Бессмысленные мечтания [Bessmyslennye mechtaniya], 1895)
• I can't be silent (Не могу молчать [Ne mogu molchat'], 1908)

Pedagogical works

• Articles from Tolstoy's journal on education, Yasnaya Polyana (1861–1862)
• A Primer (1872)
• On Popular Instruction (1874)
• A New Primer (1875)

References

1. "Translator's Note from "The Gospel in Brief" published by T.Y. Crowell". Archive.org. 2001-03-10. Retrieved 2013-12-31.
2. Tolstoy, Leo (1892). "The First Step". Retrieved 2016-05-21. ... if [a man] be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ... its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling -- killing. Preface to the Russian translation of Howard William's The Ethics of Diet
3. "The Picket Line — "Letter to the Liberals" by Leo Tolstoy". Sniggle.net. 1903-10-19. Retrieved 2013-12-31.

External links

• Online Books Page — free, public-domain books and articles by Tolstoy available online