Leo Tolstoy bibliography

Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy in his later years; early-20th century

References and footnotes

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.

• The Autobiographical Trilogy
  • Childhood (Детство, 1852)
  • Boyhood (Отрочество, 1854)
  • Youth (Юность, 1857)
• 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)

• 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)

• "Croesus and Fate" (adaptation of the Greek legend) (1886)
• "Françoise" (adaptation of a story by Guy de Maupassant) ("Франсуаза", 1891)^[b]
• "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)
• "Thief's Son" (adaptation of "Abused Before Christmas" by Nikolai Leskov) (1906)
• "Power of Childhood" (adaptation of Hugo's poem, "La guerre civile") ("Сила детства", 1908, pub. 1912)

• "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)

• "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)^[c]
• "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)

• 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)

• "Wisdom of Children"
• "Traveler and Peasant" [de] ("Проезжий и крестьянин", 1909, published 1917)

• Religious Treatise in Three Volumes (untitled)
  • Introduction: A Confession (1879–1880)^[2]
  • 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)^[3]
• 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)

• Why Do Men Intoxicate Themselves? (1890)
• Christianity and Patriotism (1894)
• The Christian Teaching (1895)
• Patriotism and Government (1900)
• The Slavery of Our Times (1900)
• Need it Be So? (1900)
• The Only Means (1901)
• What Is Religion and What is its Essence? (1902)
• Appeal to the Working People (1902)
• Appeal to the Clergy (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)

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.

• "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)

• "A History of Yesterday" ("История вчерашнего дня") (1851)
• "Grateful Soil" ("Благодарная почва") (1910)

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• Combination of phonetic and grammatical instruction with many simple untitled stories and fables
• Titled Stories (see Stories for Children)
• Prayers in Old East Slavic

A collection of stories, most of which appeared in the four original ABC volumes.

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