The Life of Tolstoy/List of Tolstoy's Works

by Paul Birukoff

 

LIST OF TOLSTOY'S WORKS

Those works which are generally accepted as the most important are printed in blacker type. The dates show when the works were first published.

NOVELS
Childhood		1852
Boyhood		1854
Youth		1856-57
Sebastopol		1854-55
The Cossacks		1861
War and Peace		1864-69
Anna Karenin		1873-76
The Kreutzer Sonata		1889
Resurrection		1899
Hadji Murat		Not yet published
Father Sergius		Not yet published
PLAYS
The Power of Darkness (drama)		1886
The Fruits of Enlightenment (comedy)		1889
The Corpse (unfinished drama)		Not yet published

STORIES AND SKETCHES
A Morning of a Landowner		1852
A Raid		1852
The Cutting of the Forest		1855
Notes of a Billiard Marker		1856
Two Hussars		1856
An Encounter		1856
The Snowstorm		1856
Lucerne		1857
Albert		1857
Three Deaths		1859
Family Happiness		1859
Polikushka		1860
The Decembrists		1863-68
The Prisoner of the Caucasus		1872
The Death of Ivan Ilyitch		1886
Holstomer		1888
A Talk Among Idle People		1892
Master and Servant		1895
Singing in the Village		1909
Four Days in the Village		1910
The False Coupon		Not yet published
After the Ball		Not yet published
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL
First Recollections		1878
Confession		1879
The Claim of Love (from his diary)		1899

EDUCATIONAL
The following were the chief articles among many which Tolstoy published in his review Yasnaya Polyana:
A Project for a General Plan for Elementary Schools	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	1861-62
On Popular Education
Education and Instruction
Progress and the Definition of Instruction
A Primer		1872
On Popular Instruction		1874
A New Primer		1875
ETHICAL AND RELIGIOUS BOOKS AND ESSAYS
A Criticism of Dogmatic Theology		1880
A Short Exposition of the Gospel		1881
The Four Gospels Unified and Translated		1881
Church and State		1882
What is My Faith?		1884
On Life		1887
The Love of God and of One's Neighbour		1889
Timothy Bondareff		1890
Why Do Men Intoxicate Themselves?		1890
On Non-Resistance		1890
The First Step (on vegetarianism)		1892
The Kingdom of God is Within You; or Christianity not as a Mystical Teaching but as a New Conception of Life		1893
Non-Activity		1893

The Meaning of the Refusal of Military Service		1893
Reason and Religion		1894
Religion and Morality		1894
Christianity and Patriotism		1894
Non-Resistance (a letter to Ernest H. Crosby)		1896
How to Read the Gospels		1896
The Deception by the Church		1896
Christian Teaching		1898
On Suicide		1900
Thou Shalt Not Kill		1900
Reply to the Holy Synod		1901
The Only Way		1901
On Religious Toleration		1901
What is Religion?		1902
To the Orthodox Clergy		1903
Thoughts of Wise Men (compilation)		1904
The Only Need		1905
The Great Sin		1905
A Cycle of Reading (compilation)		1906
Do Not Kill		1906
Love Each Other		1906
An Appeal to Youth		1907
The Law of Violence and the Law of Love		1908
The Only Command		1909
For Every Day (compilation)		1909
ART AND LITERATURE
What is Art?		1897
Art and Not Art		1906

Shakespeare and the Drama		1906
Prefaces to:
A Translation of "Modern Science," by Edward Carpenter
Dr. Alice Stockham's "Toxology"
Orloff's Album
Amiel
Free Translations of Stories by:
Guy de Maupassant
Bernardin de St. Pierre
SHORT RELIGIOUS AND DIDACTIC STORIES AND TRACTS FOR THE PEOPLE
What People are Living By		1881
Where Love is, There is God		1885
Two Old Men		1885
A Fire Neglected Consumes the House		1885
Nicolas Stick (Tsar Nicolas I)		1886
Does a Man Require Much Land?		1886
Ilias		1886
The Godson		1886
The Three Hermits		1886
The Candle		1886
The Repenting Sinner		1886
The First Distiller		1886
Ivan the Fool		1886
The Empty Drum		1887
Walk in the Light While the Light is With You		1893
Three Parables		1894

Esarlieddon		1903
Three Questions		1903
The Restoration of Hell		1903
Work, Death and Sickness		1903
A Prayer		1905
Berries		1905
Komey Vasilyeff		1906
Why?		1906
The Divine and the Human		1906
A Letter on Science to a Peasant		1909
Published by Posrednik after Tolstoy's death:
False Beliefs	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	1911
Life in Reality
On Religion
The Soul
Love
The Sexual Instinct
God
Sins, Temptation and Superstitions
Excesses
The Similarity of Men's Souls
Pride
Effort
Wrath
Vanity
Parasitism
False Science

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES
The Census of Moscow (in 1882)		1882
Letter to M. A. Engelhardt		1882
What Then Must We Do?		1886
On Women		1886
On Manual Labour		1887
Mental Activity and Manual Labour		1888
Culture's Feast (on the anniversary of the Moscow University)		1889
Letter to a Revolutionist		1889
On the Famine (reports and letters)		1891-93
Shame! (against corporal punishment)		1895
Patriotism and Peace		1895
To the Liberals		1896
To the Ministers		1896
The Approach of the End		1896
A Letter to a Non-Commissioned Officer		1897
On the Hague Peace Conference		1899
Two Wars		1899
Who Is to be Blamed?		1900
Carthago Delenda Est		1900
The Slavery of our Times		1900
Where is the Issue?		1900
Patriotism and Government		1900
Is it Really Necessary?		1900
To the Tsar and his Associates		1901
The Nearing End of the Age		1901
Mementoes for Soldiers		1901

Mementoes for Officers		1901
On the Working-Class Problem		1902
Letters to the Tsar		1902
To the Working People		1902
To Men of Politics		1903
To Social Reformers		1903
Letter to Pietro Mazzini		1903
Bethink Yourselves		1904
In the Russian Revolution		1904
How to Emancipate the Working Classes		1905
A Great Injustice (on the land problem)		1905
On the Social Movement in Russia		1905
The End of the Age		1905
An Appeal to the People		1906
On Military Service		1906
On the Meaning of the Russian Revolution		1906
What Must be Done?		1906
An Appeal to the Government, the Revolutionists and the People		1907
The Only Solution of the Land Question		1907
I Cannot be Silent (a protest against the wholesale executions)		1908
Concerning Molochnikoff's Arrest		1908
The Annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina		1908
The Inevitable Revolution		1909
An Address to the Stockholm Peace Conference		1909
An Efficient Remedy (last article, published three days after his death by the St. Petersburg daily paper Rietch)		1910