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Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828–1910)

sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons gallery, quotes. Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina; in their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realistic fiction. As a moral philosopher he was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through his work The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. The icon  identifies that the work includes a spoken word version.

Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy
(Leo Tolstoy)

Works

Novels

• War and Peace (Война и мир), 1865-1869, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude in 1922-23

also translated from the French as War and Peace by Clara Bell in 1886[1]

• The Decembrists (Декабристы), 1868 drafts of an attempt to write a sequel to War and Peace

• Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина, 1873-1877, translated by Constance Garnett, 1917)

also translated by Nathan Haskell Dole in 1887

Literary criticism of Anna Karenina, 1895 by William Dean Howells

Tolstoi's Astronomy, letter to the editor disputing astronomical facts in the book

• The Resurrection (Воскресение), 1899, exposing the injustice of the judiciary and the Church

The Awakening: The Resurrection (translated by William E. Smith, 1900)

Resurrection (translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude, 1899)

Resurrection (translated by Herman Bernstein)

Resurrection (translated by Archibald John Wolfe, 1920)

• Master and Man (Хозяин и работник, 1895)
• Hadgi Maurat (Хаджи-Мурат), 1898, fictionalised story of an actual Avar rebel commander.
• The Death of Ivan Ilych (Смерть Ивана Ильича)

also translated as The Death of Ivan Il'ich

• The Cossacks (Казаки), 1863
• The Kreutzer Sonata (Крейцерова соната), translation by Isabel Florence Hapgood

Tolstoï and the "Kreutzer Sonata", by Robert G. Ingersoll

• Katia (Катя), 1859 translated by William S. Gottsberger in 1887

also translated as My Husband and I

also translated as Family Happiness by Louise and Aylmer Maude

• A Morning of a Landed Proprietor (Утро помещика), from an unfinished novel Tolstoy intended to entitle A Russian Proprietor.
• On Life[2]

Dramatic Plays

• The Fruits of Culture, 1899, translated by Arthur Hopkins
• Redemption, 1900 play in which the main character doubts his wife's love, so runs away, leading to her re-marriage, his suicide, and closes with her realisation that she loved him.

• The Live Corpse, alternate translation
• The Man who was Dead, alternate translation
• Reparation, alternate translation

• The Cause of it All, 1910.
• The Power of Darkness (Власть тьмы), translated by Arthur Hopkins
• The Overthrow of Hell and Its Restoration a "dramatic dialogue" between Beelzebub and his angels, published by The Free Age Press pre-1903
• The First Distiller
• The Light Shines in Darkness, published posthumously

Autobiographical writings

Autobiography, translated by C. J. Hogarth Childhood (Детство) Boyhood (Отрочество) Youth (Юность) The Journal of Leo Tolstoy, trans. 1917 by Rose Strunsky A Confession

First Recollections A History of Yesterday, 1851, diary entry wherein Tolstoy records his thoughts The Claim of Love also translated as The Demands of Love Early Days Will and Testament

Short stories

After the Ball (После бала), 1903. Albert (Альберт), translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude Alexis, 1905. The Bear Hunt (Охота пуще неволи) Bear-hunting worse than Slavery, 1888, translated by N. H. Dole. The Candle (Свечка) The Captive in the Caucasus also translated as The Prisoner of the Caucasus Chodynko, 1910. The Coffee-House of Surat The Cutting of the Forest, 1855 The Devil (Дьявол), 1889, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. A Dialogue Among Clever People, 1892. Diary of a Lunatic, 1896. Diary of Alexander I, 1905. The Empty Drum An Encounter, 1856. Esarhaddon, King of Assyria, 1903. Evil Allures, But Good Endures also translated as Hatred is Sweet, but God is Strong Exiled to Siberia also translated as God Sees the Truth, But Waits Fables for Children, translated by Leo Wiener, 1904. Fables Paraphrased from the Indian and Imitations Father Sergius, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude The Forged Coupon and Other Stories, translator not mentioned The Forged Coupon After the Dance Alyosha the Pot My Dream There are No Guilty People, 1909 The Young Tsar, 1894 Four Days in the Village, 1910 The Fruits of Enlightenment, 1891, translated by Constance Garnett The Godfather The Godson (Крестник) A Grain As Big As A Hen's Egg The Great Bear, 1916, translated by Rochelle S. Townsend. Holstomer, 1888 Strider: the Story of a Horse (translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude). How Much Land Does a Man Need? Ilyás (Ильяс) also translated as Elias The Imp and the Crust, 1886 also translated as How the Little Devil Earned the Crust of Bread. Introduction to the History of a Mother, 1894. Ivan the Fool A Just Judge, Unfree tr.

The Lion and the Puppy Little Girls Wiser Than Men (Девчонки умнее стариков) also translated as The Wisdom of Children in 1909 also translated as The Children Wiser than the Elders The Long ExileUncertain trans. A Lost Opportunity, translated by Adolphus Norraikow Lucerne (Люцерн, 1857) (translated by Nathan Haskell Dole, 1899) Master and Servant, 1895 Meeting a Moscow Acquaintance in the Detachment, 1856 Memoirs of a Mother, 1894 A Spark Neglected Burns the House Polikushka: The Lot of a Wicked Court Servant Popular Stories and Legends [3] The Porcelain Doll, 1863 An Old Acquaintance, 1887, translated by Nathan Haskell Dole The Raid, 1852 Recollections of a Billiard-marker (Записки маркера, 1855) (translated by Nathan Haskell Dole, 1899) Memoirs of a Marker (translated by Leo Wiener, 1904) A Billiard-Marker's Notes (translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude, 1933) The Repentant Sinner also translated as The Penitent Sinner Scenes from Common Life School Scenes at Yasnaya Polyana, translated 1888 by N. H. Dole Sevastopol Stories Singing in the Village, 1909 The Snowstorm, 1856 Stories from Botany Stories from Physics Stories from the New Speller Stories of my Dogs, translated 1888 by N. H. Dole Tales from Zoology A Talk Among Idle People, 1892 Three Days in the Village Three Deaths, 1859, translated by E. R. DuMont The Three Hermits Three Parables, translated by Nathan Haskell Dole Three Questions Too Dear! The Two Brothers and the Gold Two Hussars Two Old Men Two Travellers Varya and Her Greenfinch Walk in the Light What Men Live By also translated as What People Live By by Aline Delano, 1887 also translated as What Shall it Profit a Man?, by Walter Scott Where Love is, There God is Also, 1885 The Wood-Felling, 1855 Work, Death, and Sickness, 1903 Yermak, the Conqueror of Siberia, translated 1888 by Nathan Haskell Dole

Short story collections

More Tales from Tolstoi, 1903, translated by R. Nisbet Bain, containing: The Snowstorm The Captive in the Caucasus Hatred is Sweet, but God is Strong Elias The Two Brothers and the Gold The Children Wiser than the Elders The Death of Ivan Il'ich The Penitent Sinner Three Deaths The Story of Ivan the Fool

Twenty-three Tales, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude containing: God Sees the Truth, But Waits The Prisoner of the Caucasus The Bear Hunt What Men Live By A Spark Neglected Burns the House Two Old Men Where Love is, There God is Also Ivan the Fool Evil Allures, But Good Endures Little Girls Wiser Than Men Ilyás The Three Hermits The Imp and the Crust How Much Land Does a Man Need? A Grain As Big As A Hen's Egg, The Godson The Repentant Sinner The Empty Drum The Coffee-House of Surat Too Dear! Esarhaddon, King of Assyria Work, Death, and Sickness Three Questions

Other

• The Works of Guy de Maupassant, translated by Leo Wiener, 1905
• A Criticism on Dogmatic Theology
• A New Translation and Comparison of the Four Gospels[4]
• The Quest for Meaning
• The Law of Love (Spiritual writings, U of T)
• Prophetic Forays (Spiritual writings, U of T)
• The Life of Faith (Spiritual writings, U of T)
• Maxims and Musings (Spiritual writings, U of T)
• A Calendar of Wisdom, 1910 collection of 365 different quotes, treatises and thoughts
• A Talk Among Leisured People, 1893, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude
• Walk in the Light While There is Light, 1893, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude
• Novels and other Writings, published by Charles Scribner in 1904
• An Efficient Remedy, 1910 article that appeared in the St. Petersbeurg Rietch
• Tolstoy on Lincoln, interview from the New York World, Feb. 7, 1909

Non-fiction and essays

• Who Should Learn Writing of Whom; Peasant Children of Us, or We of Peasant Children?
• Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence, 1866 (incomplete)
• Church and State, 1882, translated by Nathan Haskell Dole
• A Project for a General Plan for Elementary Schools
  • On Popular Education, 1862
  • Education and Instruction, 1872
  • Progress and the Definition of, 1874
  • Instruction, 1875
• What to Do?, 1887, translated by Isabel F. Hapgood
  • Article on the Census in Moscow
  • Thoughts Evoked by the Census of Moscow
  • On the Significance of Science and Art
  • On Labor and Luxury
  • To Women
• Why Do Men Stupefy Themselves?, 1888 work condemning tobacco and alcohol consumption, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude
  • Why Do People Stupefy Themselves?, translated by Nathan Haskell Dole
• The First Step, 1891 essay advocating a vegetarian diet as being in line with Christian ethics of non-violence, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude
  • also published as The Morals of Diet
• Desire Stronger than Necessity
• Means of Helping the Population Suffering from Bad Harvests, 1891, translated by Nathan Haskell Dole
• Help for the Starving, January 1892, translated by Nathan Haskell Dole
• The Kingdom of God is Within You, 1894, translated by Constance Garnett
• To God or Mammon, 1895
• Shame!, 1895
• A Letter to Russian Liberals, August 31 1896
• The Beginning of the End, 1897, translated by Nathan Haskell Dole
• Two Wars, 1898, translated by Nathan Haskell Dole
• Carthago Delenda Est, 1899, translated by Nathan Haskell Dole
• Thou Shalt Not Kill, Response to the assassination of Italy's King Humbert, written in 1900 and banned in both Russia and Germany, it lays the blame for violence on the state itself.
• Thoughts on God, published by The Free Age Press pre-1903
• A Great Iniquity, ~1903 by The Free Age Press
• What the Orthodox Religion Really Is, 1904 in the Revue de Paris
• Shakespeare and the Drama, 1906 (reprinted Feb 1907 SteadReviewAust)
• The Russian Revolution, 1907
• The Relations of the Sexes, 1908
• The Annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria, 1908 (tr. Louise and Aylmer Maude)
• For a Single Word, 1908 (tr. Louise and Aylmer Maude)
• Take Me! I Will Not Cease Writing. A Challenge, published in London's Daily News, August 8, 1908
• I Cannot Be Silent, a response to the 1908 hanging of twenty peasants who had assaulted their landowner, condemning capital punishment (tr. Louise and Aylmer Maude)
• The Law of Violence and the Law of Love, 1908
• Tolstoy's Protest, 1908 (tr. Louise and Aylmer Maude)
• A Letter to a Hindu, 1908
• The Teaching of Jesus. A Simple Rendering, 1908 (tr. Louise and Aylmer Maude)
• The Inevitable Revolution, 1909
• It is Time to Understand, 1909 (Louise and Aylmer Maude)
• A Talk With a Wayfarer, 1909 (Louise and Aylmer Maude)
• A Comparison of America and Europe, 1909
• Last Message to Mankind, written for the 1909 International Peace Congress held in Stockholm., condemning military service and war.
• The Gospel in Brief (tr. Louise and Aylmer Maude)
  • also, The Spirit of Christ's Teaching, trans. anonymously in 1887
• What I Believe, translated by Constantine Popoff
• Our Understanding of Life (Aylmer)
  • A Primer on Popular Instruction
  • A New Primer
• Patriotism and Government
• To the Tsar and His Assistants
• To The Working People, translated by Dana Estes
• Children, Love One Another, a public address (tr. Louise and Aylmer Maude)
• The Law of Force and the Law of Love (tr. Louise and Aylmer Maude)
• The Slavery of Our Times
• The Memoirs of a Madman
• What is Art?
• The Only Commandment
• My Religion, translated by Huntington Smith
• The Tsar's Coronation (tr. Louise and Aylmer Maude)
• Work While Ye Have Light, translation by Constance Garnett
• How Shall We Escape?, published by The Free Age Press pre-1903
• The Christian Teaching, published by The Free Age Press pre-1903
• Bethink Yourselves!, on the Russo-Japanese war
• The Relations of the Sexes, published by The Free Age Press pre-1903
• The Root of the Evil, published by The Free Age Press pre-1903
• Demands of Love and Reason, published by The Free Age Press pre-1903
• The Meaning of Life, published by The Free Age Press pre-1903
• Right and Wrong, pre-1902 by Louise and Aylmer Maude
• Reason and Religion
• How to Read the Gospels
• The Feast of Enlightenment of January Twenty-Four
• Nikolai Palkin
• A Terrible Question
• In the Midst of the Starving
• Famine or Not Famine
• Persecution of Christians in Russia, tr. Nathan Haskell Dole
• Help!, tr. Nathan Haskell Dole
• The Emigration of the Doukhobors, tr. Nathan Haskell Dole
• Thoughts on God, tr. Nathan Haskell Dole
• The Physiology of War, published by Walter Scott
• The Inevitable Revolution, 1908
• The Meaning of the Russian Revolution, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude
• What's To Be Done?, translated by Aylmer Maude
• An Appeal to Russians: To the Government, the Revolutionists and the People
• The Only Means
• Reason, Faith and Prayer
• An Appeal to the Clergy
• To the Working People
• An Appeal to Social Reformers
• The Christian Teaching
• Industry, or the Farmer's Triumph

Literary Criticism

Introduction to Semenov's Peasant Stories, 1894, translated by Leo Wiener Introduction to The Farmer's Triumph, pre-1898 Introduction to Stop and Think!, pre-1898 Introduction to Wherein is Truth in Art?, pre-1898 Preface to Journal of Henri Frederic Amiel, pre-1898

Introduction to Tokology by w:Alice Bunker Stockham, pre-1898 Introduction to Modern Science, pre-1898 Introduction to Thoughts About God, pre-1898 Introduction to Life of William Lloyd Garrison, pre-1903 Preface to N. Orlov's picturebook Russian Peasants

Pamphlets

• Trust Yourself. An Appeal To Young People (tr. Louise and Aylmer Maude)
• The Hanging Czar. An Indictment of the Russian Government, pre-1909 socialist pamphlet by ILP publications
• Labour: The Divine Command, translated by Mary Cruger (NEEDS FORMATTING)
• Yasnaya Polyana School, 1862 description of a school he ran on his estate

Letters

• Letter to his son Ilia, between 1882-1886 when Ilia was 16-20 years old
• Second letter to his son Ilia, between 1882-1886 when Ilia was preparing to marry
• Third letter to his son Ilia, between 1882-1886
• Letter to L. D. Urusov, May 5, 1885. Translated by Edward Bernstein.
• Letter to Great-Aunt Alexandra about his children, 1872
• Correspondence with the Doukhobor community in Canada, 16 letters from Tolstoy to Peter Vasil'evich Verigin, written from 1895-1910, and 22 replies from Verigin.
• Letter to Morrison Davidson, about a book that Davidson mailed him, September 10, 1895.
• Letter to Ernest Crosby, 1896 letter dealing with non-resistance
• Letter requesting a Nobel Prize be awarded to the Doukhbours, November 1897
• Letter on Suicide, 1898, written to a personal friend
• Letter to a Chinese Gentleman, written in 1899
• Letter to T. A. Ushakoff, 1900, June 9.
• Letter to Arvid Yarnefelt, 1900, June 20.
• Letter to Alexis C. Blakhopuloff, 1900, June 20.
• Letter to the Free Age Press, 1900
• Letter to the Persian ambassador to Russia, 1901
• Letter on the Religious Relation to Life, February 2, 1902
• Letter to Swedish scientists, writers and artists, 1902 upon being told that they regretted he had not received a Nobel Prize
• Letter to Aylmer Maude, 1903 regarding a dispute about his translations
• Letter to M. Sabatier, 7/20 Nov. 1906.
• Letter to Premanand Bharati, 16 Jan./3 Febr. 1907.
• Letter to a Peasant on Science, 1909
• Letter to a Student on Jurisprudence, 1909
• A Letter to a Student About Law, 1909
• Correspondence between Tolstoy and Gandhi, 1909 forward
• What to Teach Children, a letter published in the December 4, 1909 edition of The Nation
• Letter to V.A. Posse on the Importance of Studying Ancient Religions, 1910
• Letter to a Kind Youth, published in 1912
• Letter to a Non-Comissioned Officer
• Love letters, translated by Virginia Woolf in "Translations from the Russian"
• Letter to Isabella Grinevskaya, a letter discussing the Ba`hai faith structure
• Letter to Tcherktoff "On the Negro Question", dealing with the writings of William Lloyd Garrison, an abolitionist.
• Letter to the Czar on the Kishineff massacre of Jews
• Reason, Faith and Prayer: Three Letters, published by The Free Age Press pre-1903
• Letters on War, published by The Free Age Press pre-1903
• Reply to Critics, tr. Nathan Haskell Dole
• A Reply to Criticisms, tr. Nathan Haskell Dole
• Letter to Dr. Eugen Heinrich Schmitt, tr. Nathan Haskell Dole
• Letter on Henry George (I), tr. Nathan Haskell Dole
• Letter on Henry George (II), tr. Nathan Haskell Dole
• Letter to John Coleman Kenworthy[5]
• Patriotism, or Peace?
• Letter to the Peace Conference
• A Reply to Criticisms
• Reply to Critics
• Manual Labour and Intellectual Activity
• Letter to N. N.

Uncertain

• In the Land of Stadling and Reason
• Napoleon and the Russian Campaign
• Life
• Christ's Christianity
• Que Faire? trans. to Fr. Marina Polonsky, 1887
• The One Thing Needful, booklet published by The Free Age Press pre-1903
• The End of the Age and the Crisis in Russia, booklet published by The Free Age Press pre-1903
• Forty Years, a religious legend published by The Free Age Press pre-1903
• Religion and Morality, published by The Free Age Press pre-1903
• On the Personal Christian Life, published by The Free Age Press pre-1903
• Some Social Remedies, published by The Free Age Press pre-1903
• My Husband and I, trans. pre-1907
• The Invaders, trans. pre-1907
• In Pursuit of Happiness, trans. by Aline Delano, 1887

Works about Tolstoy

• Tolstoy, Leo in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

About Tolstoy's Last Days, 1910 by Vladimir G. Tchertkoff Article on Leo Tolstoy in London's Vegetarian newsletter, December 21 1889 Biography of Leo Tolstoy, 1902 by R. Nisbet Bain Count Tolstoi and the Public Censor, by Isabel Hapgood Count Tolstoy in Thought and Action, by Robert Edward Crozier Long Decree of Excommunication of Leo Tolstoy, 1901 My Reply to the Synod L. N. Tolstoy and the Modern Labour Movement, November 1910 by Vladimir Lenin Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood, by Paul Birukoff[6] Leo Tolstoy: His Life and Work, 1911 by Paul Birukoff The Life of Tolstoy, 1911 by Paul Birukoff Life of Tolstoy, by Romain Rolland (La Vie de Tolstoï, 1911) Leo Tolstoy, 1908 by Arthur Stanley Turberville[7]

Recollections of Tolstoy by C. A. Behrs[8], pre-1907 Reminiscences of Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1920 by Maxim Gorky Reminiscences of Tolstoy, by his son Ilia Tolstoy The Revivalism of Leo Tolstoy, 1918 by Otto Heller A Run through Russia: the Story of a Visit to Count Tolstoi, 1894 by William Wilberforce Newton[9] Tolstoy the Teacher, 1921 by Charles Baudouin The Tragedy of Tolstoy, 1933 by Leo's daughter Aleksandra[10] Tolstoi by William Lyon Phelps as part of Essays on Russian Novelists The Teaching of Tolstoy, published by The Free Age Press pre-1903 Tolstoy and the Cult of Simplicity, by G.K. Chesterton Tolstoi and Christianity as it appeared in the 1920 The Principles of Revolution by Cecil Delisle Burns Tolstoy Is Dead; Long Fight Over, 1910 obituary in the New York Times Tolstoy's Newly Published Diary and Letters, 1922 in the New York Times UNESCO biography of Tolstoy, 1994

On his works

• “Anna Karenina,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.