Leo Tolstoy bibliography

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

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.

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)
Stories of My Dogs (1888)
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[]

A History of Yesterday ("История вчерашнего дня") (1851)
"The Raid" ("Набег" ["Nabeg"], 1852)
"The Cutting of the Forest" (1855)
"Sevastopol Sketches" ("Севастопольские рассказы" ["Sevastopolskie rasskazy"], 1855–1856)
- "Sevastopol in December 1854" (1855)
- "Sevastopol in May 1855" (1855)
- "Sevastopol in August 1855" (1856)
"Recollections of a Billiard-marker" ("Записки маркера" ["Zapiski markera"], 1855)
"The Snowstorm" ("Метель" ["Metel"], 1856)
"Two Hussars" ("Два гусара" ["Dva gusara"], 1856)
"A Morning of a Landed Proprietor" ("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"], 1862)
"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 Dialogue Among Clever People" (1892)
"Walk in the Light While There is Light" (1893)
"The Coffee-House of Surat" ("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)

"Work, Death, and Sickness" (1903)
"Three Questions" ("Три вопроса" ["Tri voprosa"], 1903)
"After the Ball" ("После бала" ["Posle bala"], (1903)
"Posthumous Notes of the Hermit Fëdor Kuzmich" ("Посмертные записки старца Федора Кузьмича") (Unfinished, 1905, published in 1912)
"Alyosha the Pot" ("Алёша Горшок" ["Alyosha Gorshok"], 1905)
"There Are No Guilty People" (1909)
"Three Days in the Village" ("Три дня в деревне", non-fictional sketch, 1910)
"Singing In The Village" ("Песни на деревне", 1910, written 1909)
"A Talk With A Wayfarer" ("Разговор с прохожим", 1910, written 1909)[1]
"Traveller and Peasant" ("Проезжий и крестьянин", 1917, written 1909)[2]
"Khodynka: An Incident of the Coronation of Nicholas II" ("Ходынка", written 1898, published 1912)
"My Dream" ("Что я видел во сне", 1911)
"Poor People" ("Бедные люди") (1905)
Stories that have not been freely (i.e. public domain) translated into English:
- "Divine and Human" ("Божеское и человеческое", 1906)
- "What For?" ("За что?", 1906)
Stories that have not been translated into English:
- "Разжалованный" (1856)
- "Прыжок" (1880)
- "Рассказ Аэронавта" (1880)
- "Корней Васильев" (1906)
- "Ягоды" (1906)
- "Благодарная почва" (1910)
- "Идиллия" (1911, written 1861-62)
- "Кто прав?" (1911, written 1891—1893)
- "Отец Василий" (1911, written 1906)
- "Сон молод��го царя" (1912, written 1894)
- "Сила детства" (1912, written 1908)
- "Святочная ночь" (1928, written 1853)
- "Как умирают русские солдаты" (1928, written 1854)
- "Отрывки рассказов из деревенской жизни" (1932, written 1860—1862)

Fables and parables[]

"The Two Horses" ("Две лошади", 1880) [3]
"What Men Live By" ("Чем люди живы" ["Chem lyudi zhivy"], 1881)
"Karma" ("Карма", 1894)[4]
"The Two Brothers and the Gold" (Два брата и золото) (1886, written 1885)
"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)
"Three Sons" ("Три сына", 1889, written 1887)[5]
"The Empty Drum" ("Работник Емельян и пустой барабан", 1891)
"Three Parables" (Три притчи) (1895) [6]
"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:
- "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) - 3 chapters
Prince Fyodor Shchetinin
[A novel about the time of Peter I] (published 1936)

Non-fiction[]

Philosophical works[]

Available in English[]

A Confession (1879) – Volume 1 of an untitled four-part work^[1]
The Gospel in Brief, or A Short Exposition of the Gospel (1881)
Church and State (1886)
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)^[2]
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 (1891)
The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1893)
Non-Activity (1893)
A Letter to the Liberals (1896)
Thou Shalt Not Kill (1900)
Bethink Yourselves! (1904)
The Only Need (1905)[7]
The Law of Love and the Law of Violence (1908)[8]
A Letter to a Hindu (1908)
The Inevitable Revolution (1909)
A Calendar of Wisdom (Путь Жизни [Put' Zhizni]; compilation; 1909)

Untranslated[]

The Grate Sin (1905)
Do Not Kill (1906)
Love Each Other (1906)
An Appeal to Youth (1907)
The Only Command (1909)
Reason and Religion (1894)
Religion and Morality (1894)
Christianity and Patriotism (1894)
Non-Resistance: letter to Ernest H. Crosby (1896)
How to Read the Gospels (1896)
The Deception of the Church (1896)
Christian Teaching (1898)
On Suicide (1900)
Reply to the Holy Synod (1901)
The Only Way (1901)
On Religious Toleration (1901)
О половом вопросе [O polovom voprose] (“On the Sexual Question”; compilation by Vladimir Chertkov; 1901)
What Is Religion and What is its Essence? (1902)
To the Orthodox Clergy (1903)
The Slavery of Our Times (1900)
A Criticism of Dogmatic Theology (1880) – Volume 2 of an untitled four-part work
The Four Gospel Unified and Translated (1881) – Volume 3 of an untitled four-part work

Works on art and literature[]

The Works of Guy de Maupassant (1894)
What Is 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)

Collections[]

Twenty-Three Tales

References[]

^ "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. 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.

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

[1] "Translator's Note from "The Gospel in Brief" published by T.Y. Crowell". 2001-03-10. Retrieved 2013-12-31.

[2] "On Life". Northwestern University Press. 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.

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Bibliography
Novels	War and Peace (1869) Anna Karenina (1878) The Decembrists (1884) 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 Morning of a Landed Proprietor" (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) "Posthumous Notes of the Hermit Fëdor Kuzmich" (1905) "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) A Confession (1882) The Gospel in Brief (1883) 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)
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) The Last Station (1990 novel) 2009 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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