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.

Prose fiction

Novels

  • 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, 1875–1877)
  • Resurrection (Воскресение, 1889–1899)

Novellas

  • Landowner's Morning (Утро помещика, 1856)
  • Two Hussars (Два гусара, 1856)
  • Family Happiness (Семейное счастье, 1859)
  • Polikúshka (Поликушка, 1860)
  • The 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)
  • Hadji Murat (Хаджи-Мурат, 1896–1904)

Short stories

Folk tales, fables and parables

Adaptations

  • "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)

Stories for children

From ABC (1872) and New ABC (1875) textbooks

Additional stories for children

  • "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)[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" ("Отец Василий") (1906, pub. 1911)
  • "There Are No Guilty People" (1909)

Drama

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)

Dialogues

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


Non-fiction

Books

  • 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)

Pamphlets

  • 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 (1908)
  • The Inevitable Revolution (1909)

Articles

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.

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:[4]

New ABC and Russian Books for Reading (1875)

Source:[5]

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

  1. ^ A letter written with his wife to his wife's younger sister that is treated by critics as a short story.
  2. ^ An alteration of Guy de Maupassant's "Port".
  3. ^ Planned but abandoned sequel to War and Peace.
  4. ^ A non-fictional sketch.
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  1. ^ Hilf: a zamlbukh fir liṭeraṭur un ḳunṣt. hdl:2027/hvd.hwmgzt.
  2. ^ "Translator's Note from "The Gospel in Brief" published by T.Y. Crowell". 2001-03-10. Retrieved 2013-12-31.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ Азбука.
  5. ^ "НЭБ - Национальная электронная библиотека".
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