Recollections of a Billiard-marker

"Recollections of a Billiard-marker" ("Записки маркера" ["Zapiski markera"], sometimes translated as "A Billiard-Marker's Notes") is a short story by Leo Tolstoy written and published in 1855, early in Tolstoy's career. It was translated to English by Nathan Haskell Dole.^[1] George Herbert Perris described the work as containing "scenic and incidental realism."^[2]

The story was included in the 1958 Tolstoy's Tales of Courage and Conflict.^[3]

References

^ Leo Tolstoy (2017). The Collected Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy. e-artnow. ISBN 9788075833174.
^ G. K. Chesterton, George Herbert Perris, Edward Garnett (1904). Leo Tolstoy. Hodder and Stoughton.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Leo Tolstoy (1958). Charles Neider (ed.). Tolstoy's Tales of Courage and Conflict. Hanover House.

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Novels	War and Peace (1869) Anna Karenina (1878) Resurrection (1899)
Novellas	Childhood (1852) Boyhood (1854) Youth (1856) Family Happiness (1859) Polikúshka (1860) The Cossacks (1863) The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) The Kreutzer Sonata (1889) The Devil (1911) The Forged Coupon (1911) Hadji Murat (1912)
Short stories	"The Raid" (1852) "The Cutting of the Forest" (1855) "Sevastopol Sketches" (1855) "Recollections of a Billiard-marker" (1855) "The Snowstorm" (1856) "Two Hussars" (1856) "A Landowner's Morning" (1856) "Lucerne" (1857) "Albert" (1858) "Three Deaths" (1859) "The Porcelain Doll" (1863) "God Sees the Truth, But Waits" (1872) "The Prisoner of the Caucasus" (1872) "The Bear Hunt" (1872) "What Men Live By" (1881) "Diary of a Lunatic" (1884) "Quench the Spark" (1885) "An Old Acquaintance" (1885) "Where Love Is, God Is" (1885) "Ivan the Fool" (1885) "Evil Allures, But Good Endures" (1885) "Wisdom of Children" (1885) "The Three Hermits" (1886) "Promoting a Devil" (1886) "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" (1886) "The Grain" (1886) "Repentance" (1886) "Croesus and Fate" (1886) "Kholstomer" (1886) "The Two Brothers and the Gold" (1886) "A Lost Opportunity" (1889) "A Dialogue Among Clever People" (1892) "Walk in the Light While There is Light" (1893) "The Coffee-House of Surat" (1893) "The Young Tsar" (1894) "Master and Man" (1895) "Too Dear!" (1897) "Work, Death, and Sickness" (1903) "Three Questions" (1903) "Alyosha the Pot" (1905) "Father Sergius" (1911) "After the Ball" (1911)
Plays	The Power of Darkness (1886) The First Distiller (1886) The Light Shines in the Darkness (1890) The Fruits of Enlightenment (1891) The Living Corpse (1900) The Cause of It All (1910)
Non-fiction	A History of Yesterday (1851) Confession (1882) The Gospel in Brief (1883) What I Believe (1884) What Is to Be Done? (1886) The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894) What Is Art? (1897) "A Letter to a Hindu" (1908) The Inevitable Revolution (1909) A Calendar of Wisdom (1910)
Unfinished	The Decembrists (1884) "Posthumous Notes of the Hermit Fëdor Kuzmich" (1905)
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