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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й (help·info), Russian pronunciation: [lʲɛv nʲɪkɐˈlaɪvʲɪtɕ tɐlˈstoj]; September 9 [O.S. August 28] 1828 – November 20 [O.S. November 7] 1910), was a Russian writer widely regarded as among the greatest of novelists....
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War and Peace
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir), a Russian novel by Leo Tolstoy, is considered one of the world's greatest works of fiction. It is regarded, along with Anna Karenina (1873–7), as his finest literary achievement.
Epic in scale, War...
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- 1869
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Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina (Russian: Анна Каренина; Russian pronunciation: [ˈanə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə]) (sometimes Anglicised as Anna Karenin) is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian...
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- 1877
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- 1873
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
The Kingdom of God Is Within You (Russian: Царство Божие внутри вас [Tsarstvo Bozhiye vnutri vas]) is the non-fiction magnum opus of Leo Tolstoy and was first published in Germany in 1894, after being banned in his home country of Russia. It is the...
Date of first publication:
- 1894
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The Power of Darkness
The Power of Darkness (Russian: Власть тьмы, Vlast' t'my) is a five-act drama by Leo Tolstoy. Written in 1886, the play was long banned in Russia.
The central character is a peasant, Nikita, who seduces and abandons a young girl Marinka; then the...
Date of first publication:
- 1886
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What Is Art?
What Is Art? (Russian: Что такое искусство? [Chto takoye iskusstvo?]; 1897) is a book by Leo Tolstoy in which he argues against numerous aesthetic theories which define art in terms of the good, truth, and especially beauty. In Tolstoy's opinion,...
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- 1897
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Childhood
Childhood (Russian: Детство, Detstvo) is the first novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy first published in the Russian literary journal "Sovremennik" in 1852. This book describes the major physiological decisions of boyhood that all boys...
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- 1852
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The Kreutzer Sonata
The Kreutzer Sonata (Russian: Крейцерова соната, Kreitzerova Sonata) is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1889 and promptly censored by the Russian authorities. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first...
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- 1890
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- 1889
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- 924845
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A Confession
A Confession (Russian: Исповедь [Ispoved']) is a short work on questions of religion by Leo Tolstoy. It was first distributed in Russia in 1882.
Consisting of autobiographical notes on the development of the author's belief, A Confession shows the...
Date of first publication:
- 1882
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Ivan the Fool
Ivan the Fool (also known as "Ivan the Fool and his Two Brothers") is an 1886 short story (in fact, a literary fairy tale) by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1886.
Its plot is about the struggles of three brothers and a sister with the Old Devil. The name...
Date of first publication:
- 1886
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Russian: Смерть Ивана Ильича, Smert' Ivana Ilyicha), first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his conversion to Christianity.
The novel tells...
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- 1886
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The Living Corpse
The Living Corpse (Russian: Живой труп), also published in English as Redemption and as Reparation, is a Russian play by Leo Tolstoy. Although written around 1900, it was only published shortly after his death; Tolstoy had never considered the work...
Date of first publication:
- 1911
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Master and Man
Master and Man (Russian: Хозяин и работник) is a short story by Leo Tolstoy (1895).
In this short story, a land owner named Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey to the house of the owner of a...
Date of first publication:
- 1895
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Resurrection
Resurrection (Russian: Воскресение, Voskreseniye), first published in 1899, was the last novel written by Leo Tolstoy.
The book is the last of his major long fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of...
Date of first publication:
- 1899
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How Much Land Does a Man Need?
How Much Land Does a Man Need? (Russian: Много ли человеку земли нужно?, Mnogo li cheloveku zemli nuzhno) is an 1886 short story by Leo Tolstoy about a man who, in his lust for land, forfeits everything, including his own life.
The protagonist of...
Date of first publication:
- 1886
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Father Sergius
Father Sergius (Russian: Отец Сергий, translit. Otets Sergiy) is a short story written by Leo Tolstoy in 1890 and first published in 1898.
The story begins with the childhood and exceptional and accomplished youth of Prince Stepan Kasatsky. The...
Date of first publication:
- 1912
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Family Happiness
Family Happiness (Russian: Семейное счастье [Semeynoye Schast'ye]) is an 1859 novella written by Leo Tolstoy. The story concerns the love and marriage of a young girl, Mashechka, and the much older Sergey Mikhaylych, an old family friend. After a...
Date of first publication:
- 1859
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Kholstomer
"Kholstomer", also translated as "Strider", is one of the most striking stories in Russian literature. It was started by Leo Tolstoy in 1863 and left unfinished until 1886, when it was reworked and published as "Kholstomer: The Story of a Horse"....
Date of first publication:
- 1888
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Sebastopol Sketches
Sevastopol Sketches (Russian: Севастопольские рассказы, Sevastopolskiye rasskazy) are three historical fiction short stories written by Leo Tolstoy and published in 1855 to record his experiences during the Siege of Sevastopol (1854-1855). The name...
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- 1856
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Boyhood
Boyhood (Russian: Отрочество, Otrochestvo) is the second novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood and followed by Youth. The novel was first published in the Russian literary journal "Sovremennik" in 1854.
Date of first publication:
- 1854
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The Cossacks
The Cossacks (Russian: Казаки [Kazaki]) is a short novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1863. The novel was acclaimed by Ivan Bunin as one of the finest in the language.
In the story, Olenin is stationed in the Caucasus and leaves Moscow behind. While...
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- 1863
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Hadji Murat
Hadji Murat (or alternatively Hadji Murad, although the first spelling better captures the phoneme of the original language title in Russian: Хаджи-Мурат [Khadzhi-Murat]) was a short novel written by Leo Tolstoy from 1896-1904 and published after...
Date of first publication:
- 1912
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What Is To Be Done?
What is to be Done? is a non-fiction work by Leo Tolstoy, in which Tolstoy describes the social conditions of Russia in his day. Tolstoy completed the book in 1886, and the first English language publication came in 1887.
The title was also used for...
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A Calendar of Wisdom
A Calendar of Wisdom (Russian: Путь Жизни, Put' Zhizni), or Path of life or A Cycle of Readings or Wise Thoughts for Every Day is a collection of insights and wisdom compiled by Leo Tolstoy between 1903 and 1910 published in 1910. The first English...
Date of first publication:
- 1910
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What Men Live By
What Men Live By is a short story written by Russian author Leo Tolstoy in 1885. It is one of the short stories included in his collaboration called What Men Live By, and other tales published in 1885. The collaboration also included the written...
Date of first publication:
- 1882
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Too Dear!
"Too Dear!" is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1897. It is a humorous account of the troubles of dealing with a criminal in the kingdom of Monaco.
All is well in the kingdom of Monaco until a man commits a murder. The...
Date of first publication:
- 1890
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The Three Questions
The Three Questions is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1885 as part of the collection What Men Live By, and other tales. The story takes the form of a parable, and it concerns a king that wants to find the answers to...
Date of first publication:
- 1903
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Promoting a Devil
Promoting a Devil (also translated as The Imp and the Crust) is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1886. It is a cautionary tale against the dangers of alcohol.
The story opens with a peasant preparing to plow a field....
Date of first publication:
- 1886
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Repentance
Repentance is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1886. The story details the difficulties of a repentant sinner's attempts to enter Heaven.
The story opens with the imminent death of a 70-year-old sinner. The man has...
Date of first publication:
- 1886
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Quench the Spark
Quench the Spark (also translated as A Spark Neglected Burns the House ) is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1885. The story takes the form of a parable concerning the virtues of reconciliation.
The story opens with the...
Date of first publication:
- 1885
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God Sees the Truth, But Waits
"God Sees the Truth, But Waits" (Russian: "Бог правду видит, да не скоро скажет", "Bog pravdu vidit da ne skoro skazhet") is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1872. The story, about a man sent to prison for a murder he...
Date of first publication:
- 1872
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Alyosha the Pot
Alyosha the Pot (Russian: Алеша Горшок [Alyosha Gorshok]) is a short story by Leo Tolstoy (1905). D. S. Mirsky considered it "a masterpiece of rare perfection."
Date of first publication:
- 1905
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Youth
Youth (Russian: Юность [Yunost']; 1856) is the third novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood and Boyhood.
Date of first publication:
- 1856
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The Grain
The Grain, sometimes also translated as A Grain as Big as a Hen's Egg, is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy written in 1886. It takes the form of a parable about being content with one's lot in life.
One day some children found a strange...
Date of first publication:
- 1886
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Work, Death, and Sickness
Work, Death, and Sickness, sometimes also translated as The Right Way, is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy written in 1903. The story takes the form of a parable about the creation of work, death, and sickness.
When God first created man,...
Date of first publication:
- 1903
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Three Deaths
Three Deaths: A Tale (Russian: Три смерти, Tri smerti) is a short story by Leo Tolstoy first published in 1859. It narrates the deaths of three subjects: a noblewoman, a coachman and a tree.
Date of first publication:
- 1859
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Where Love is, God is
Where Love is, God is (sometimes also translated as Where Love is, There God is Also) is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy. One English translation of this short story as translated by Nathan Haskell Dole and published by Thomas Y. Crowell...
Date of first publication:
- 1885
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The Forged Coupon
The Forged Coupon (Russian: Фальшивый купон, Fal'shivyi kupon) is a novella in two parts by Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy had first thought of the story in the late 1890s, but he did more significant work on it in 1902, 1903, and 1904, and it was published...
Date of first publication:
- 1911
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The Fruits of Enlightenment
The Fruits of Enlightenment (1889) is a play by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. It satirizes the persistence of unenlightened attitudes towards the peasants amongst the Russian landed aristocracy. In 1891 Constantin Stanislavski achieved success...
Date of first publication:
- 1891
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La Guerre Et La Paix II
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Rasskazy Iz Azbuki
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Three Tolstoy Plays
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Cuentos
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