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Leo Tolstoy bibliography

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

  • "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)
  • "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)
  • "Kholstomer" (aka "Strider") ("Холстомер", 1863–1886)
  • "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" ("После бала", 1903)
  • "Alyosha the Pot" ("Алёша Горшок", 1905)
  • "Berries" ("Ягоды") (1905)
  • "Divine and Human" ("Божеское и человеческое", 1905)
  • ("Корней Васильев", 1905)
  • ("За что?", 1906)
  • "What I saw in a Dream" ("Что я видел во сне", 1906)

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)
  • 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")
  • "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)
  • "Dream of a Young Tsar" ("Сон молодого царя") (1894, pub. 1912)
  • 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)
  • "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

  • 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) ("Карма", 1894)
  • ("Две различные версии истории улья с лубочной крышкой") (1900, pub. 1912)
  • "Wolf" ("Волк") (1908)

Unfinished

  • "A Christmas Night" ("Святочная ночь") (1853, pub. 1928)
  • ("Как умирают русские солдаты") (1854, pub. 1928)
  • "Uncle Zhdanov and Mr. Chernov" ("Дяденька Жданов и кавалер Чернов") (1854, pub. 1932)
  • ("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)
  • "Who is Right?" ("Кто прав?") (1891–1893, pub. 1911)
  • "" ("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)
  • ("Отец Василий") (1906, pub. 1911)
  • "There Are No Guilty People" (1909)

Drama

Plays

Dialogues

  • "Wisdom of Children"
  • ("Проезжий и крестьянин", 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 (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)
  • Meaningless aspirations [Бессмысленные мечтания] (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" ("Три дня в деревне", 1910)
  • "Singing In The Village" ("Песни на деревне", 1910)
  • "A Talk With A Wayfarer" ("Разговор с прохожим", 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 (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 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 (1909–1910)

Supplements to works of others

From Diary

  • "A History of Yesterday" ("История вчерашнего дня") (1851)
  • "Grateful Soil" ("Благодарная почва") (1910)

Pedagogical works

ABC (Азбука) (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 (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.

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