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.

Prose Fiction

Series

The Autobiographical Trilogy

1. Childhood (Детство [Detstvo], 1852)
2. Boyhood (Отрочество [Otrochestvo], 1854)
3. Youth (Юность [Yunost'], 1856)

War and Peace

1. War and Peace (Война и мир [Voyna i mir], 1869)
2. The Decembrists (Декабристы, abandoned 1863. planned but abandoned sequel to War and Peace) - 3 chapters

Novels

• Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина [Anna Karenina], 1877)
• Resurrection (Воскресение [Voskresenie], 1899)

Novellas

• 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 молодого 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)

Collections

• Twenty-Three Tales

Unfinished

• Prince Fyodor Shchetinin
• [A novel about the time of Peter I] (published 1936)

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)

Non-fiction

Philosophical works

Available in English

• A Confession (1879) – Volume 1 of an untitled four-part work
• 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)
• 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)
• The Slavery of Our Times (1900)[7]
• Bethink Yourselves! (1904)
• The Only Need (1905)[8]
• The Law of Love and the Law of Violence (1908) [9]
• A Letter to a Hindu (1908)
• The Inevitable Revolution (1909)
• A Calendar of Wisdom (Путь Жизни [Put' Zhizni]; compilation; 1909)

Untranslated

• The Great Sin (Великий грех, 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)
• 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)

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