Bibliography of Russian author Leo Tolstoy
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
Novellas
Two Hussars (Два гусара , 1856)
Family Happiness (Семейное счастье , 1859)
Polikúshka (Поликушка , 1860)
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 , 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)
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)
"Landowner's Morning " (Утро помещика , 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)[a]
"Kholstomer " (aka "Strider") ("Холстомер", 1863–1886)
"Nicholas Stick" (1886)
"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)
"Korney Vasiliev" ("Корней Васильев") (1905)
"Why?" ("За что?", 1906)
"What I saw in a Dream" ("Что я видел во сне", 1906)
"Traveler and Peasant" ("Проезжий и крестьянин", 1909, published 1917)
"Three Days in the Village " ("Три дня в деревне", 1910)[b]
"Singing In The Village " ("Песни на деревне", 1910)
"A Talk With A Wayfarer" ("Разговор с прохожим", 1910)
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)
"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)
Adaptations
"Croesus and Fate " (adaptation of the Greek legend) (1886)
" Françoise " (adaptation of a story by Guy de Maupassant) ("Франсуаза", 1891)[c]
"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)
"Power of Childhood" (adaptation of Hugo's poem, "La guerre civile ") ("Сила детства", 1908, pub. 1912)
Stories for Children
Most children's stories (such as "A Prisoner in the Caucuses") are contained in the ABC and New ABC books shown in the Pedagogical Works section. Below are the stories not published in the ABC and New ABC books.
Stories for Lubki picture books (1885)
Additional Stories and Fables
"Karma" (Adaptation of a Hindu Tale) ("Карма", 1894)
"Two Different Versions of the History of the Beehive" ("Две различные версии истории улья с лубочной крышкой") (1900, pub. 1912)
"Wolf" ("Волк") (1908)
Unfinished
"A Christmas Night" ("Святочная ночь") (1853, pub. 1928)
"How Russian Soldiers Die" ("Как умирают русские солдаты") (1854, pub. 1928)
"Uncle Zhdanov and Mr. Chernov" ("Дяденька Жданов и кавалер Чернов") (1854, pub. 1932)
"Idyll" ("Идиллия") (1861–1862, pub. 1911)
The Decembrists (Декабристы, written 1860–1863, published 1884)[d]
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)
"Who is Right?" ("Кто прав?") (1891—1893, pub. 1911)
"Dream of a Young Tsar " ("Сон молодого царя") (1894, pub. 1912)
"Khodynka: An Incident of the Coronation of Nicholas II " ("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)
"Father Vasily" ("Отец Василий") (1906, pub. 1911)
"There Are No Guilty People " (1909)
Pedagogical works
ABC (Азбука) (1872)
New ABC & Russian Books for Reading (1875)
New ABC (Новая Азбука)
Combination of phonetic and grammatical instruction with many simple untitled stories and fables
Titled Stories
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)
Prayers in Old East Slavic
Russian Book for Reading (Русская Книга Для Чтения) (Volumes 1-4)
A collection stories, most of which appeared in the four original ABC volumes.