Leo Tolstoy bibliography

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

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Prose fiction

Novels

The Autobiographical Trilogy
- Childhood (Детство, 1852)
- Boyhood (Отрочество, 1854)
- Youth (Юность, 1856)
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

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

"Raid" ("Набег", 1852)
"The Cutting of the Forest" (1855)
"Billiard-marker's Notes" ("Записки маркера", 1855)
Sevastopol Sketches (Севастопольские рассказы, 1855–1856)
- "Sevastopol in December 1854" (1855)
- "Sevastopol in May 1855" (1855)
- "Sevastopol in August 1855" (1856)
"Landowner's Morning" (Утро помещика, 1856)
"Snowstorm" ("Метель", 1856)
"Meeting a Moscow Acquaintance in the Detachment: From the Caucasian notes of Prince Nekhlyudov" (1856, pub. 1887)
"Lucerne: From the notes of Prince D. Nekhlyudov" ("Люцерн", 1857)
"Albert" ("Альберт", 1857)
"Three Deaths" ("Три смерти", 1858)
"Excerpts from Stories from Village Life ("Отрывки рассказов из деревенской жизни") (1860–1862, pub. 1932)
"The Porcelain Doll" (1863)^[a]

"Kholstomer" (aka "Strider") ("Холстомер", 1863–1886)
"Nicholas Stick" (1886)
"A Dialogue Among Clever People" (used as an introduction to the novella Walk in the Light...) (1892)
"After the Ball" ("После бала", 1903)
"Alyosha the Pot" ("Алёша Горшок", 1905)
"Berries" ("Ягоды") (1905)
"Divine and Human" ("Божеское и человеческое", 1905)
"Korney Vasiliev" ("Корней Васильев") (1905)
"Why?" ("За что?", 1906)
"What I saw in a Dream" ("Что я видел во сне", 1906)
"Traveler and Peasant" ("Проезжий и крестьянин", 1909, published 1917)
"Three Days in the Village" ("Три дня в деревне", 1910)^[b]
"Singing In The Village" ("Песни на деревне", 1910)
"A Talk With A Wayfarer" ("Разговор с прохожим", 1910)

Folk Tales, Fables and Parables

"What Men Live By" ("Чем люди живы", 1881)
"Where Love Is, God Is" ("Где любовь, там и бог", 1885)
"Two Brothers and Gold" (Два брата и золото) (1885)
"Neglected Fire Can't be Extinguished" (aka "Quench the Spark") ("Упустишь огонь, не потушишь", 1885)
"Two Old Men" ("Два старика", 1885)
"Candle" ("Свечка", 1885)
"Tale of a Fool" (aka "Ivan the Fool") ("Сказка об дураке", 1885)
"Three Hermits" ("Три Старца", 1885)
"How the Imp Earned the Crust" ("Как чертёнок краюшку выкупал", 1886)
"Penitent Sinner" ("Кающийся грешник", 1886)
"Grain as Big as a Chicken's Egg" ("Зерно с куриное яйцо", 1886)

"How Much Land Does a Man Need?" ("Много ли человеку земли нужно", 1886)
"Godson" ("Крестник", 1886)
"Three Sons" ("Три сына", 1887)
"Emelyan the Laborer and the Empty Drum" ("Работник Емельян и пустой барабан", 1891)
Three Untitled Parables (Три притчи) (1895)
"Destruction and Restoration of Hell" ("Разрушение ада и восстановление его", 1902)
Stories for Sholem Aleichem's Help: An Anthology for Literature and Art to aid the victims of the Kishinev pogrom (1903)
- "Esarhaddon, King of Assyria" ("Ассирийский царь Асархадон")
- "Work, Death, and Sickness"
- "Three Questions" ("Три вопроса")

Adaptations

"Croesus and Fate" (adaptation of the Greek legend) (1886)
"Françoise" (adaptation of a story by Guy de Maupassant) ("Франсуаза", 1891)^[c]
"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

Most children's stories (such as "A Prisoner in the Caucuses") are contained in the ABC and New ABC books shown in the Pedagogical Works section. Below are the stories not published in the ABC and New ABC books.

Stories for Lubki picture books (1885)
- "Evil Allures, But Good Endures" (lit. "Enemy is Crafty, but God is Strong") ("Вражье лепко, а божье крепко")
- "Little Girls are Wiser than Old Men" ("Девчонки умнее стариков")
- "Ilyás" ("Ильяс")
Additional Stories and Fables
- "Karma" (Adaptation of a Hindu Tale) ("Карма", 1894)
- "Two Different Versions of the History of the Beehive" ("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" ("Как умирают русские солдаты") (1854, pub. 1928)
"Uncle Zhdanov and Mr. Chernov" ("Дяденька Жданов и кавалер Чернов") (1854, pub. 1932)
"Idyll" ("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)^[d]
"Who is Right?" ("Кто прав?") (1891–1893, pub. 1911)
"Dream of a Young Tsar" ("Сон молодого царя") (1894, pub. 1912)
"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" ("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)
The Cause of It All (1910)

Non-fiction

Books and pamphlets

Untitled Four Volume Work
- 1. A Confession (1879–1880)^[1]
- 2. A Criticism of Dogmatic Theology (1880–1882)
- 3. The Four Gospels Harmonized and Translated (1880–1882)
  - The Gospel in Brief (Containing the summaries and translations of the more scholarly above work) (1882)
- 4. What I Believe (also called My Religion) (1884)
What Shall We Do Then? (1886)
On Life (1887)^[2]
Power and Liberty (1888)
Why Do Men Intoxicate Themselves? (1890)
The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1891–1894)
Christianity and Patriotism (1894)
The Christian Teaching (1897)
What Is Art? (1897)
Patriotism and Government (1900)

Where is the Way Out?: On the Condition of the Laboring Classes (1900)
Need it Be So? (1900)
The Slavery of Our Times (1900)[1]
The Only Means (1901)
On Religious Toleration (1902)
What Is Religion and What is its Essence? (1902)
To the Working People (1902)
Bethink Yourselves! (1904)
The Only Need (1905)[2]
The Law of Love and the Law of Violence [ru] (1908) [3]
Shakespeare and the Drama (1909)
The Inevitable Revolution (1909)
A Calendar of Wisdom (Путь Жизни [Put' Zhizni]; compilation; 1909)

Articles

Articles written for Tolstoy's Yasnaya Polyana journal on education (1861–1862)
- "On Methods of Teaching the Rudiments"
- "A Project of a General Plan for the Establishment of Popular Schools"
- "Education and Culture"
- "Are the Peasant Children to Learn to Write from Us?"
- "The School at Yasnaya Polyana"
- "Progress and the Definition of Education"
"On Popular Education" (1874)
"On the Moscow Census" (1882)
"Church and State" (1882)
"What is the Truth in Art?" (Introduction to a collection of stories, 1886)
"What a Christian May Do" (1887)
"The Holiday of Enlightenment of the 12th of January" (1889)
"Afterward to Kreutzer Sonata" (1890)
"On the Relation between the Sexes" (1890)
Articles on the Famine
- "The Terrible Question" (1891)
- "On the Methods of Aiding the People Who Have Suffered from the Failure of Crops" (1891)
- "Among the Suffering (Report up to April 12, 1892)" (1892)
- "Account of the Money Contributed from April 12 to July 27, 1892" (1892)
- "Conclusion to Last Report on the Aid to the Starving" (1893)

"Non-Activity" (1893)
"The Persecution of Christians in Russia" (1895)
"God or Mammon?" (1895)
"Shame!" (1895)
"A Reply to Critics" (1895)
Meaningless aspirations [Бессмысленные мечтания] (1895)
"The Approach of the End" (1896)
"How to Read the Gospel and What is its Essence?" (1896)
"Nobel's Bequest" (1897)
"Famine or No Famine?" (1898)
"Carthago Delenda Est" (1898)
"Two Wars" (1898)
"Thou Shalt Not Kill" (1900)
"On Suicide" (1900)
"On the Street Riots" (1901)
"Reply to the Holy Synod's Decree of Excommunication" (1901)
"The Soldiers' Memento" (1901)
"The Officers' Memento" (1901)
"To the Tsar and His Associates" (1901)
I cannot be silent [Не могу молчать] (1908)

Letters and Correspondence

Letter to a Revolutionist (1886)
Letter to N. N. Engelhard (1887)
Letter to a Kind Youth (1887)
"A Letter to a Frenchman" (1888)
Letter to A.V. Vlasov (1889)
"On Non-Resistance to Evil" (1890)
Letter to Sofia Tolstaya on the Famine (1892)
Letters on Henry George (1893)
Letter to the Editor of the Daily Chronicle (1894)
"Religion and Morality": A reply to the German Ethical Society (1894)
"Reason and Religion" (1895)
Letter to a Pole, Marian Edmundovich (1895)
Correspondence with P. V. Verigin of the Dukhobors (1895–1896)
"Patriotism or Peace": A letter to Manson (1896)
"Non-Resistance": A letter to Ernest H. Crosby (1896)
Letter to the Minister of Internal Affairs and to the Minister of Justice (1896)
Letter to the Chief of the Irkutsk Disciplinary Battalion (1896)
"On the Deception of the Church" (1896)

"A Letter to the Liberals": to Alexandra Kalmykov (1896)
Letter to Eugen Heinrich Schmitt (1896)
Letter to the Dukhobors in the Caucasus (1897)
"Three Phases of Life" (before 1899?)
"Concerning the Congress of Peace": A letter to certain Swedes (1899)
Letter to a Corporal (1899)
"The Commune and the World": A letter to D. A. Khilkov (1899)
Correspondence with the Dukhobors in Canada (1899–1900)
Letter to Tsar Nicholas II (1900)
Letters to Free Thought, a Bulgarian periodical (1901)
Letter to Georgi Shopov (1901)
Letter to the Tolstoy Society of Manchester, England (1901)
Letter to an Orthodox Priest (1901)
Letter to a French Pastor (1901)
"On the Franco-Russian Alliance": A letter to Pietro Mazzini (1901)
Letter to a Jew (1903)
A Letter to a Hindu, the editor of the magazine Free Hindustan (1908)
Correspondence with Gandhi (1909–1910)

Supplements to Works of Others

"To N. N. Ge's Painting: 'Christ's Last Discourse with His Desciples'" (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)

Untranslated Works

The Great Sin (Великий грех, 1905)
Do Not Kill (1906)
Love Each Other (1906)
The Only Command (1909)
To the Orthodox Clergy (1903)

Pedagogical works

ABC (Азбука)^[3] (1872)

BOOK 1

Part 1. Alphabet and Phonics
Part 2. Reading
- I. (22 Fables)
- II.
  - The Sea
  - Blind and Deaf
  - How I stopped being afraid of Blind Beggars
  - Mouse-girl
  - Lipunyushka
- III.
  - Elephant
  - Chinese Queen Silinchi
  - How the Bukharians Learned to Breed Silkworms
  - Eskimos
  - From Speed Comes Power
  - How they Repaired a House in the City of Paris
  - Where Does the Water from the Sea Go?
- IV.
  - Fool (Poem)
  - Svyatogor Bogatyr (Bylina)
Part 3. Texts in Old East Slavic
- Excerpts from Nestor’s Primary Chronicle
- Excerpts from Rostovsky’s Chetya Minea
- Excerpts from the Old and New Testaments
Part 4. Arithmetic

BOOK 2

Part 1. Reading
- I. (25 Fables)
- II.
  - Girl and mushrooms
  - What kind of dew is on the grass?
  - The Indian and the Englishman (American story)
  - Old Horse
  - Orel (American)
  - Bear on a cart
  - Mad dog
  - Vest
  - The Lion and the Dog (American)
  - Sparrow
  - The Bishop and the Robber (Victor Hugo)
  - Lozina
  - 1000 Gold (French)
- III.
  - Grass Snake (folk)
  - Luck (Indian)
  - Two brothers (Arabic)
  - Peter the Great and the Muzhik (Bezsonovo)
  - Three Thieves (Gebel)
  - An Equal Inheritance
- IV.
  - Shat and Don (folk)
  - Volga and Vazuza (Vladimir Dal)
  - Sudoma (Perevlessky)
  - Golden-haired princess (Chizhov)
  - Cambyses and Psamenit (Herodotus)
  - Yermak
  - Owl and Hare
  - How Wolves Teach Their Children
  - Sparrow and swallows (Perevlessky)
  - Shark (American)
- V. (Science Stories)
  - How a man removed a stone
  - Rolled cigarette
  - Warmth I
  - Warmth II
  - Warmth III
  - Why is there wind?
  - What is the wind for?
  - Why do windows sweat and there is dew?
  - Touch and vision
  - Magnetism I
  - Magnetism II
  - Magnetism III
- VI. Sukhman (Bylina)
Part 2. Texts in Old East Slavic
- Excerpts from Nestor's Primary Chronicle
- Excerpts from Rostovsky's Chetya Minea
- Excerpts from the Old and New Testaments
Part 3. Arithmetic
- Addition and Subtraction

BOOK 3

Part 1. Reading
- I. - V. (19 Fables)
- VI.
  - King's son and his comrades (Turkish)
  - The Righteous Judge (eastern fairy tale)
  - How a Man Divided Geese
  - Severe Punishment (Arabic)
  - The Tsar's Brothers (Gebel)
- VII.
  - How I Learned to Ride
  - Soldier's Household
- VIII. (Stories of My Dogs)
  - Bulka
  - Bulka and Boar
  - Pheasants
  - Milton and Bulka
  - Turtle
  - Bulka and Wolf
  - What Happened to Bulka in Pyatigorsk
  - The End of Bulka and Milton
  - Rusak
- IX.
  - Foundation of Rome
  - How the Geese Saved Rome
  - Polycrates of Samos
  - God Sees the Truth, But Waits
- X. (Science Stories)
  - Apple Trees
  - Bugs
  - Hare and Hound
  - Hares and Wolves
  - Senses
  - Why Does Frost Crack Trees?
  - Dampness I
  - Dampness II
  - Different Connections of Particles
  - Ice, Water and Steam
  - Crystals
- XI. Volga Bogatyr (Bylina)
Part 2. Texts in Old East Slavic
- Excerpts from Nestor's Primary Chronicle
- Excerpts from the Old and New Testaments
Part 3. Arithmetic
- Multiplication and Division

BOOK 4

Part 1. Reading
- I. (12 Fables)
- II.
  - The King and the shirt (Arabic)
  - Why is there evil in the world (Indian)
  - Raven and little crows (Lithuanian)
  - The Wolf and the Man (folk)
  - The Tsar's New Dress (H. C. Andersen)
- III.
  - Jump (American)
  - Hunting is Worse than Slavery (aka "The Bear Hunt")
- IV. A Prisoner in the Caucasus
- V. (Science Stories)
  - Fox tail
  - Silkworm
  - Old poplar
  - Bird cherry
  - How the trees walk
  - Specific gravity
  - Harmful air
  - Gases I
  - Gases II
  - How to make balloons
  - An Aeronaut's Tale
  - Galvanism
  - The sun is warm
- VI. Mikulushka Selyaninovich (Bylina)
Part 2. Texts in Old East Slavic
- Excerpts from Nestor's Primary Chronicle
- Excerpts from Rostovsky's Chetya Minea
- Excerpts from the Old and New Testaments
Part 3. Arithmetic
- Decimals and Fractions

New ABC & Russian Books for Reading^[4] (1875)

New ABC (Новая Азбука)

Combination of phonetic and grammatical instruction with many simple untitled stories and fables
Titled Stories
- Burden (Fable)
- Big Stove (Fable)
- Nakhodka (Story)
- The Girl and the Robbers (Fairy Tale)
- Walnut Branch (Fairy Tale)
- Birdie (Story)
- Three Bears (Fairy Tale)
- How Uncle Semyon Talked About What Happened to Him in the Forest (Story)
- Cow (Story)
- Philippok (Story)
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.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Books by Leo Tolstoy.

^ "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.
^ https://www.prlib.ru/item/776875
^ https://viewer.rusneb.ru/ru/000199_000009_002861487

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

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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)
Family	Sophia (wife) Alexandra (daughter) Ilya (son) Lev Lvovich (son) Tatyana (daughter)
Life and legacy	Yasnaya Polyana Tolstoyan movement Christian anarchism Departure of a Grand Old Man (1912 film) Lev Tolstoy and the Russia of Nicholas II (1928 documentary) Lev Tolstoy (1984 film) The Last Station (1990 novel) 2009 film) Story of One Appointment (2018 film) A Couple (2022 film)
Honors	Tolstoy Farm Tolstoj quadrangle crater
Related	The Triumph of the Farmer or Industry and Parasitism (1888) Vladimir Chertkov Aylmer and Louise Maude Translators of Tolstoy Tolstoy scholars
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