This is a list of works by Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828âÂÂ1910), including his novels, novellas, short stories, fables and parables, plays, and nonfiction.
Prose fiction
Novels
- The Autobiographical Trilogy
- Childhood (ÃÂõÃÂÃÂÃÂòþ, 1852)
- Boyhood (ÃÂÃÂÃÂþÃÂõÃÂÃÂòþ, 1854)
- Youth (îýþÃÂÃÂÃÂ, 1857)
- Cossacks (ÃÂð÷ðúø, 1852âÂÂ1863)
- War and Peace (ÃÂþùýð ø üøÃÂ, 1864âÂÂ1869, rev. 1873)
- Anna Karenina (ÃÂýýð ÃÂðÃÂõýøýð, 1875âÂÂ1877)
- Resurrection (ÃÂþÃÂúÃÂõÃÂõýøõ, 1889âÂÂ1899)
Novellas
- Landowner's Morning (ãÃÂÃÂþ ÿþüõÃÂøúð, 1856)
- Two Hussars (ÃÂòð óÃÂÃÂðÃÂð, 1856)
- Family Happiness (áõüõùýþõ ÃÂÃÂðÃÂÃÂÃÂõ, 1859)
- Polikúshka (ÃÂþûøúÃÂÃÂúð, 1860)
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich (áüõÃÂÃÂàÃÂòðýð ÃÂûÃÂøÃÂð, 1882âÂÂ1886)
- Walk in the Light While There is Light (Ã¥þôøÃÂõ ò ÃÂòõÃÂõ, ÿþúð õÃÂÃÂàÃÂòõÃÂ, 1888)
- Kreutzer Sonata (ÃÂÃÂõùÃÂõÃÂþòð ÃÂþýðÃÂð, 1887âÂÂ1889)
- Devil (ÃÂÃÂÃÂòþû, 1889, pub. 1911)
- Master and Man (Ã¥þ÷ÃÂøý ø ÃÂðñþÃÂýøú, 1895)
- Father Sergius (ÃÂÃÂõàáõÃÂóøù, 1890âÂÂ1898)
- The Forged Coupon (äðûÃÂÃÂøòÃÂù úÃÂÿþý, 1902âÂÂ1904)
- Hadji Murat (Ã¥ðôöø-ÃÂÃÂÃÂðÃÂ, 1896âÂÂ1904)
Short stories
- "Kholstomer" (aka "Strider") ("Ã¥þûÃÂÃÂþüõÃÂ", 1863âÂÂ1886)
- "Nicholas Stick" (1886)
- "An Old Acquaintance" (1887)
- "A Dialogue Among Clever People" (used as an introduction to the novella Walk in the Light...) (1892)
- "After the Ball" ("ÃÂþÃÂûõ ñðûð", 1903)
- "Alyosha the Pot" ("ÃÂûÃÂÃÂð ÃÂþÃÂÃÂþú", 1905)
- "Berries" ("ïóþôÃÂ") (1905)
- "Divine and Human" ("ÃÂþöõÃÂúþõ ø ÃÂõûþòõÃÂõÃÂúþõ", 1905)
- ("ÃÂþÃÂýõù ÃÂðÃÂøûÃÂõò", 1905)
- ("ÃÂð ÃÂÃÂþ?", 1906)
- "What I saw in a Dream" ("çÃÂþ àòøôõû òþ ÃÂýõ", 1906)
Folk tales, fables and parables
- "What Men Live By" ("çõü ûÃÂôø öøòÃÂ", 1881)
- "Where Love Is, God Is" ("ÃÂôõ ûÃÂñþòÃÂ, ÃÂðü ø ñþó", 1885)
- "Two Brothers and Gold" (ÃÂòð ñÃÂðÃÂð ø ÷þûþÃÂþ) (1885)
- "Neglected Fire Can't be Extinguished" (aka "Quench the Spark") ("ãÿÃÂÃÂÃÂøÃÂàþóþýÃÂ, ýõ ÿþÃÂÃÂÃÂøÃÂÃÂ", 1885)
- "Two Old Men" ("ÃÂòð ÃÂÃÂðÃÂøúð", 1885)
- "Candle" ("áòõÃÂúð", 1885)
- "Tale of a Fool" (aka "Ivan the Fool") ("áúð÷úð þñ ôÃÂÃÂðúõ", 1885)
- "Three Hermits" ("âÃÂø áÃÂðÃÂÃÂð", 1885)
- Stories for Lubki picture books (1885)
- "Evil Allures, But Good Endures" (lit. "Enemy is Crafty, but God is Strong") ("ÃÂÃÂðöÃÂõ ûõÿúþ, ð ñþöÃÂõ úÃÂõÿúþ")
- "Little Girls are Wiser than Old Men" ("ÃÂõòÃÂþýúø ÃÂüýõõ ÃÂÃÂðÃÂøúþò")
- "Ilyás" ("ÃÂûÃÂÃÂÃÂ")
- "How the Imp Earned the Crust" ("ÃÂðú ÃÂõÃÂÃÂÃÂýþú úÃÂðÃÂÃÂúàòÃÂúÃÂÿðû", 1886)
- "Penitent Sinner" ("ÃÂðÃÂÃÂøùÃÂàóÃÂõÃÂýøú", 1886)
- "Grain as Big as a Chicken's Egg" ("ÃÂõÃÂýþ àúÃÂÃÂøýþõ ÃÂùÃÂþ", 1886)
- "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" ("ÃÂýþóþ ûø ÃÂõûþòõúà÷õüûø ýÃÂöýþ", 1886)
- "Godson" ("ÃÂÃÂõÃÂÃÂýøú", 1886)
- "Three Sons" ("âÃÂø ÃÂÃÂýð", 1887)
- "Emelyan the Laborer and the Empty Drum" ("àðñþÃÂýøú ÃÂüõûÃÂÃÂý ø ÿÃÂÃÂÃÂþù ñðÃÂðñðý", 1891)
- "Dream of a Young Tsar" ("áþý üþûþôþóþ ÃÂðÃÂÃÂ") (1894, pub. 1912)
- Three Untitled Parables (âÃÂø ÿÃÂøÃÂÃÂø) (1895)
- "Destruction and Restoration of Hell" ("àð÷ÃÂÃÂÃÂõýøõ ðôð ø òþÃÂÃÂÃÂðýþòûõýøõ õóþ", 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" ("ÃÂÃÂÃÂøÃÂøùÃÂúøù ÃÂðÃÂàÃÂÃÂðÃÂÃÂ
ðôþý")
- "Work, Death, and Sickness"
- "Three Questions" ("âÃÂø òþÿÃÂþÃÂð")
Adaptations
- "Croesus and Fate" (adaptation of the Greek legend) (1886)
- "Françoise" (adaptation of a story by Guy de Maupassant) ("äÃÂðýÃÂÃÂð÷ð", 1891)
- "The Coffee-House of Surat" (adaptation of a story by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre) ("áÃÂÃÂðÃÂÃÂúðàúþÃÂõùýðÃÂ", 1893)
- "Too Dear!" (adaption of a story by Guy de Maupassant) ("ÃÂþÃÂþóþ ÃÂÃÂþøÃÂ", 1897)
- "Poor People" (adaptation of a story by Victor Hugo) ("ÃÂõôýÃÂõ ûÃÂôø") (1905)
- "Thief's Son" (adaptation of "Abused Before Christmas" by Nikolai Leskov) (1906)
- "Power of Childhood" (adaptation of Hugo's poem, "La guerre civile") ("áøûð ôõÃÂÃÂÃÂòð", 1908, pub. 1912)
Stories for children
From ABC (1872) and New ABC (1875) textbooks
- ABC (Book 1, part 2):
- 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)
- ABC (Book 2, part 1):
- 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)
- ABC (Book 3, part 1):
- 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)
- ABC (Book 4, part 1):
- 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)
- New ABC:
- 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)
Additional stories for children
- "Karma" (Adaptation of a Hindu Tale) ("ÃÂðÃÂüð", 1894)
- ("ÃÂòõ ÃÂð÷ûøÃÂýÃÂõ òõÃÂÃÂøø øÃÂÃÂþÃÂøø ÃÂûÃÂààûÃÂñþÃÂýþù úÃÂÃÂÃÂúþù") (1900, pub. 1912)
- "Wolf" ("ÃÂþûú") (1908)
Unfinished
- "A Christmas Night" ("áòÃÂÃÂþÃÂýðàýþÃÂÃÂ") (1853, pub. 1928)
- ("ÃÂðú ÃÂüøÃÂðÃÂàÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂúøõ ÃÂþûôðÃÂÃÂ") (1854, pub. 1928)
- "Uncle Zhdanov and Mr. Chernov" ("ÃÂÃÂôõýÃÂúð ÃÂôðýþò ø úðòðûõàçõÃÂýþò") (1854, pub. 1932)
- ("ÃÂôøûûøÃÂ") (1861âÂÂ1862, pub. 1911)
- "Tikhon and Melanya" (1862)
- Novel set during the reign of Peter the Great (1870âÂÂ1879) (fragments published as Peter the First, Prince Fyodor Shchetinin, and Hundred Years in 1936)
- "The Decemberists" (ÃÂõúðñÃÂøÃÂÃÂÃÂ) (Planned 1863, written 1878âÂÂ1879, fragments published 1884)
- "Who is Right?" ("ÃÂÃÂþ ÿÃÂðò?") (1891âÂÂ1893, pub. 1911)
- "" ("Ã¥þôÃÂýúð", 1898, published 1912)
- "Memoirs of a Madman" (1884âÂÂ1903)
- "Posthumous Notes of the Hermit Fëdor Kuzmich" ("ÃÂþÃÂüõÃÂÃÂýÃÂõ ÷ðÿøÃÂúø ÃÂÃÂðÃÂÃÂð äõôþÃÂð ÃÂÃÂ÷ÃÂüøÃÂð") (1905, published 1912)
- ("ÃÂÃÂõàÃÂðÃÂøûøù") (1906, pub. 1911)
- "There Are No Guilty People" (1909)
Drama
Plays
Dialogues
- "Wisdom of Children"
- ("ÃÂÃÂþõ÷öøù ø úÃÂõÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂýøý", 1909, published 1917)
Non-fiction
Books
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)
- ' (1908)
- The Inevitable Revolution (1909)
Articles
- Articles written for Tolstoy's Yasnaya Polyana journal on education (1861âÂÂ1862)
- "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)
- Meaningless aspirations [ÃÂõÃÂÃÂüÃÂÃÂûõýýÃÂõ üõÃÂÃÂðýøÃÂ] (1895)
- "How to Read the Gospel and What is its Essence?" (1896)
- "The Beginning of the End" (1897)
- "Nobel's Bequest" (1897)
- "Famine or No Famine?" (1898)
- "Carthago Delenda Est" (1898)
- "Two Wars" (1898)
- "Where is the Way Out?: On the Condition of the Laboring Classes" (1900)
- "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)
- "On Religious Toleration" (1902)
- "The Crisis in Russia" (1905)
- "Do Not Kill" (1906)
- "Love Each Other" (1906)
- I cannot be silent (1908)
- "The Only Command" (1909)
- "Three Days in the Village" ("âÃÂø ôýàò ôõÃÂõòýõ", 1910)
- "Singing In The Village" ("ÃÂõÃÂýø ýð ôõÃÂõòýõ", 1910)
- "A Talk With A Wayfarer" ("àð÷óþòþààÿÃÂþÃÂ
þöøü", 1910)
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.
- Letter to a Revolutionist (1886)
- Letter to N. N. Engelhard (1887)
- Letter to a Kind Youth (1887)
- "Manual Labor and Intellectual Activity": A Letter to a Frenchman, Romain Rolland (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)
- "Religion and Morality": A reply to questions from the German Ethical Society (1894)
- "Replies to Critics"
- Letter to the Editor of the Daily Chronicle (1895)
- Letter to a Polish journalist, Marian Edmundovich (1895)
- "Reason and Religion" (1895)
- Correspondence with P. V. Verigin of the Dukhobors (1895âÂÂ1896)
- "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 (1899âÂÂ1900)
- Letter to Tsar Nicholas II (1900)
- Letters to Free Thought, a Bulgarian periodical (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 the Orthodox Clergy (1903)
- Letter to a Jew (1903)
- A Letter to a Hindu, the editor of the magazine Free Hindustan (1908)
- Correspondence with Gandhi (1909âÂÂ1910)
Supplements to works of others
From Diary
- "A History of Yesterday" ("ÃÂÃÂÃÂþÃÂøàòÃÂõÃÂðÃÂýõóþ ôýÃÂ") (1851)
- "Grateful Soil" ("ÃÂûðóþôðÃÂýðàÿþÃÂòð") (1910)
Pedagogical works
ABC (ÃÂ֖ÃÂúð) (1872)
Source:
BOOK 1
BOOK 2
- Part 1. Reading (see Stories for Children)
- 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 (see Stories for Children)
- 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 (see Stories for Children)
- 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 and Russian Books for Reading (1875)
Source:
New ABC (ÃÂþòðàÃÂ֖ÃÂúð)
- 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 (àÃÂÃÂÃÂúðàÃÂýøóð ÃÂûàçÃÂõýøÃÂ) (Volumes 1-4)
A collection of stories, most of which appeared in the four original ABC volumes.
References
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