Leo Tolstoy Books In Order

Autobiographical Novels In Publication Order

  1. Childhood (1852)
  2. Boyhood (1854)
  3. Youth (1856)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. War and Peace (1867)
  2. Anna Karenina (1877)
  3. The Resurrection (1899)
  4. The Decembrists (2004)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. The Raid (1853)
  2. Two Hussars (1856)
  3. Albert (1858)
  4. Family Happiness (1859)
  5. The Cossacks (1863)
  6. God Sees the Truth, but Waits (1872)
  7. A Prisoner in the Caucasus (1872)
  8. The Death of Ivan Ilych (1886)
  9. Kholstomer (1886)
  10. The Kreutzer Sonata (1889)
  11. Walk in the Light While There is Light (1893)
  12. Master and Man (1895)
  13. The Devil (1911)
  14. Father Sergius (1911)
  15. The Forged Coupon (1911)
  16. Hadji Murat (1912)
  17. Polikushka and Two Hussars (1955)
  18. Divine and Human and Other Stories (2000)
  19. A Lost Opportunity (2000)
  20. The Long Exile and Other Stories (2001)
  21. An Old Acquaintance (2008)
  22. Diary of a Lunatic/Three Deaths (2016)
  23. Work, Death, and Sickness (2017)

Leo Tolstoy Fables Books In Publication Order

  1. What Men Live by and Other Tales (1885)
  2. How Much Land Does a Man Need? and Other Stories (1886)
  3. Ivan the Fool (1886)
  4. The Candle (2000)
  5. The Godson (2001)
  6. The Wisdom of Children (2004)
  7. Two Old Men (2005)
  8. Esarhaddon, And Other Tales (2010)
  9. Where Love is There God is Also (2018)

Standalone Plays In Publication Order

  1. The Power of Darkness (1886)
  2. The Light That Shines in the Darkness (2001)
  3. The Man Who Was Dead and the Cause of It All (2004)
  4. The Living Corpse (2014)
  5. The Fruits of Enlightenment (2019)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. What Then Must We Do? (1391)
  2. A Confession (1880)
  3. The Gospel in Brief (1883)
  4. What I Believe (1884)
  5. On Life and Essays on Religion (1887)
  6. The First Step: on vegetarianism (1892)
  7. The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1893)
  8. Bethink Yourselves! (1904)
  9. A Calendar of Wisdom (1906)
  10. Tolstoy on Shakespeare (1906)
  11. The Law of Love and the Law of Violence (1909)
  12. The Slavery of Our Times (1972)
  13. Guy De Maupassant (1974)
  14. Why Do Men Stupefy Themselves? (1975)
  15. Christianity and Patriotism (2002)
  16. What Is to Be Done? and Life (2007)
  17. Church and State and Other Essays (2009)
  18. The Christian Teaching (2015)
  19. The Four Gospels Harmonized and Translated by Leo Tolstoy (2015)
  20. Religion and Morality (2016)
  21. What is Art? (2020)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Magical Realist Fiction (1984)
  2. Famous and Curious Animal Stories (1989)

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Boyhood

Again two carriages stood at the front door of the house at Petrovskoe. In one of them sat Mimi, the two girls, and their maid, with the bailiff, Jakoff, on the box, while in the other a britchka sat Woloda, myself, and our servant Vassili. Papa, who was to follow us to Moscow in a few days, was standing bareheaded on the entrance steps. He made the sign of the cross at the windows of the carriages. The carriages began to roll away, and the birch trees of the great avenue filed out of sight. I was not in the least depressed on this occasion, for my mind was not so much turned upon what I had left as upon what was awaiting me. In proportion as the various objects connected with the sad recollections which had recently filled my imagination receded behind me, those recollections lost their power, and gave place to a consolatory feeling of life, youthful vigor, freshness, and hope. Seldom have I spent four days more well, I will not say gaily, since I should still have shrunk from appearing gay but more agreeably and pleasantly than those occupied by our journey…
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Youth

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1828 1910 commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He was the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His first publications were three autobiographical novels, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth 1852 1856. They tell of a rich landowner’s son and his slow realization of the differences between him and his peasants. As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace 1869 and Anna Karenina 1877. In their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of 19th century Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realist fiction. As a moral philosopher Tolstoy was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through works such as The Kingdom of God is Within You 1894.

War and Peace

‘Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don’t tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist I really believe he is Antichrist I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my ‘faithful slave,’ as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I have frightened you sit down and tell me all the news.’It was in July, 1805, and the speaker was the well known Anna Pavlovna Scherer, maid of honor and favorite of the Empress Marya Fedorovna. With these words she greeted Prince Vasili Kuragin, a man of high rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. Anna Pavlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only by the elite. All her invitations without exception, written in French, and delivered by a scarlet liveried footman that morning, ran as follows:’If you have nothing better to do, Count or Prince, and if the prospect of spending an evening with a poor invalid is not too terrible, I shall be very charmed to see you tonight between 7 and 10 Annette Scherer.”Heavens! what a virulent attack!’ replied the prince, not in the least disconcerted by this reception. He had just entered, wearing an embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on his breast and a serene expression on his flat face. He spoke in that refined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and with the gentle, patronizing intonation natural to a man of importance who had grown old in society and at court. He went up to Anna Pavlovna, kissed her hand, presenting to her his bald, scented, and shining head, and complacently seated himself on the sofa.’First of all, dear friend, tell me how you are. Set your friend’s mind at rest,’ said he without altering his tone, beneath the politeness and affected sympathy of which indifference and even irony could be discerned.’Can one be well while suffering morally? Can one be calm in times like these if one has any feeling?’ said Anna Pavlovna. ‘You are staying the whole evening, I hope?”And the fete at the English ambassador’s? Today is Wednesday. I must put in an appearance there,’ said the prince. ‘My daughter is coming for me to take me there.”I thought today’s fete had been canceled. I confess all these festivities and fireworks are becoming wearisome.”If they had known that you wished it, the entertainment would have been put off,’ said the prince, who, like a wound up clock, by force of habit said things he did not even wish to be believed.’Don’t tease! Well, and what has been decided about Novosiltsev’s dispatch? You know everything.”What can one say about it?’ replied the prince in a cold, listless tone. ‘What has been decided? They have decided that Buonaparte has burnt his boats, and I believe that we are ready to burn ours.’Prince Vasili always spoke languidly, like an actor repeating a stale part. Anna Pavlovna Scherer on the contrary, despite her forty years, overflowed with animation and impulsiveness. To be an enthusiast had become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the expectations of those who knew her. The subdued smile which, though it did not suit her faded features, always played round her lips expressed, as in a spoiled child, a continual consciousness of her charming defect, which she neither wished, nor could, nor considered it necessary, to correct.’

Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today’s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader’s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. Vladimir Nabokov called Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina one of the greatest love stories in world literature. Matthew Arnold claimed it was not so much a work of art as a piece of life. Set in imperial Russia, Anna Karenina is a rich and complex meditation on passionate love and disastrous infidelity. Married to a powerful government minister, Anna Karenina is a beautiful woman who falls deeply in love with a wealthy army officer, the elegant Count Vronsky. Desperate to find truth and meaning in her life, she rashly defies the conventions of Russian society and leaves her husband and son to live with her lover. Condemned and ostracized by her peers and prone to fits of jealousy that alienate Vronsky, Anna finds herself unable to escape an increasingly hopeless situation. Set against this tragic affair is the story of Konstantin Levin, a melancholy landowner whom Tolstoy based largely on himself. While Anna looks for happiness through love, Levin embarks on his own search for spiritual fulfillment through marriage, family, and hard work. Surrounding these two central plot threads are dozens of characters whom Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together, creating a breathtaking tapestry of nineteenth century Russian society. From its famous opening sentence Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way to its stunningly tragic conclusion, this enduring tale of marriage and adultery plumbs the very depths of the human soul. Amy Mandelker, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is the author of Framing Anna Karenina: Tolstoy, the Woman Question, and the Victorian Novel and coeditor of Approaches to Teaching Anna Karenina.

The Resurrection

Published in 1900, ‘Resurrection’ is Tolstoy’s final large-scale novel. It’s a morally-driven tale of personal redemption, featuring fewer characters than either War and Peace or Anna Karenina. Here we focus on one man and a single story line that spirals around a long-forgotten incident in his youth, which turns out to have had tragic consequences for another. The hero is the young St Petersburg aristocrat, Prince Dmitri. Having seduced a woman – Katyusha – and made her pregnant, he’d left her on her on her own and had thought no more about her until ten years later, he finds himself on a jury trying her for murder. It becomes apparent that her life fell apart after their brief liaison; the baby died, and she drifted into alcoholism and prostitution. As he hears the story, Dmitri feels personally responsible for all that has happened, and after Katyusha is unjustly sent to Siberia, he begins a spiritual journey to save both her and himself. Can he ever make up for what he did to her all those years ago? It’s a quest which takes him to the highest offices in the land and to the bleakest prisons, as the absurdities and inequalities of pre-revolution Russia are savagely exposed. Dmitri uncovers a moral wasteland of vested interest and uncaring attitudes, with Tolstoy particularly hostile towards the Orthodox Church, which excommunicated him a year later, and the Russian penal system. Just as Dickens did in England, Tolstoy exposes the misery of the Russian under-class, but he’s less sentimental than Dickens and angrier. And there are echoes here of another voice as well. As Boyd Tonkin said, ‘Nowhere does Tolstoy sound closer in spirit to his old foe, Dostoyevsky.’ There is an interesting back-story to the book itself. Though finished in 1899 and published in 1900, it was started ten years previously in 1889, and might never have been completed but for Tolstoy’s desire to help raise funds for the persecuted Doukhobor sect. The royalties from the book were given to the Doukhabors to fund their emigration to Canada. In the Doukhabors, which literally means, ‘spiritual wrestlers’ Tolstoy found an antidote to the religion and society he denounces in ‘Resurrection’; and a living embodiment of his own religious and social ideas. Here were a people committed to honest toil, living off the land, communal sharing, pacifist principles and the teachings of Christ in deed. As Tolstoy wrote in one of his many letters to them, ‘You are taking the lead and many are grateful to you for that. There is so much I’d like to tell you, and so much to learn from you.’ The book continues to divide literary opinion. As a conduit for both beautiful writing and naked sermonising, ‘Resurrection’ is not a novel that invites the reader to make up their own mind. Instead, here is the raw energy of rage which finally erupted in the volcano that was the Russian Revolution of 1917.

The Raid

This collection of Tolstoy’s stories includes ‘Sevastopol,’ ‘Two Hussars,’ ‘Albert,’ ‘What Men Live By,’ ‘Master and Man,’ ‘How Much Land Does a Man Need?,’ ‘The Death of Ivan Ilych,’ ‘The Three Hermits,’ and the title piece.

Two Hussars

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Ample indications of Tolstoy’s maturing artistic powers are presented in this work that revolves around the differences that develop from one generation to the other. Set in early nineteenth century, the work depicts the life styles of the Hussars and the factors behind their changing attitudes. Replete with actions and adventures, the book is bound to keep the readers on their toes. Engrossing!

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Albert

Delesov wanted to save the poor artist but got more than he bargained for when he took Albert into his home. Albert was a brilliant violinist, but his passions for talk and drink threatened to overwhelm everyone around him.

The Cossacks

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www. 1stWorldLibrary. ORG All is quiet in Moscow. The squeak of wheels is seldom heard in the snow covered street. There are no lights left in the windows and the street lamps have been extinguished. Only the sound of bells, borne over the city from the church towers, suggests the approach of morning. The streets are deserted. At rare intervals a night cabman’s sledge kneads up the snow and sand in the street as the driver makes his way to another corner where he falls asleep while waiting for a fare. An old woman pas*ses by on her way to church, where a few wax candles burn with a red light reflected on the gilt mountings of the icons. Workmen are already getting up after the long winter night and going to their work but for the gentlefolk it is still evening. From a window in Chevalier’s Restaurant a light illegal at that hour is still to be seen through a chink in the shutter. At the entrance a carriage, a sledge, and a cabman’s sledge, stand close together with their backs to the curbstone. A three horse sledge from the post station is there also. A yard porter muffled up and pinched with cold is sheltering behind the corner of the house.

A Prisoner in the Caucasus

Includes 22 classics by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Indexed for easy navigation. Works of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Includes:
The Bishop and Other Stories
The Chorus Girl and Other Stories
The Cook’s Wedding and Other Stories
The Darling and Other Stories
The Duel and Other Stories
The Horse Stealers and Other Stories
Ivanoff
The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories
Letters of Anton Chekhov
Love and Other Stories
Note Book of Anton Chekhov
The Party
Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series
The Schoolmaster
The Schoolmistress, and other stories
The Sea Gull
The Slanderer
Swan Song
Uncle Vanya
The Wife, and other stories
The Witch and other stories

The Death of Ivan Ilych

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Kholstomer

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The Kreutzer Sonata

These four novellas Family Happiness, The Kreutzer Sonata, The Cossacks, and Hadji Murad each unique in form, show Tolstoy at his creative height. This edition uses the acclaimed Maude translations, except for Family Happiness, translated by J.D. Huff, modernized and corrected against modern Russian editions to create this English language version. While the Afterword to The Kreutzer Sonata appears for the first time in English with the story. The explanatory notes and substantial introduction use the most recent scholarship in the field to further illuminate Tolstoy’s works of shorter fiction. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World’s Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford’s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up to date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Walk in the Light While There is Light

Leo Tolstoy is best known for his novels Anna Karenina and War and Peace. But later in life he experienced a dramatic conversion and dedicated himself and his writing to illuminating Christianity. Walk in the Light While There is Light is the second of three collections of his short stories dealing with religious themes. The first story, ‘Walk in the Light While There is Light,’ is set during the time of the early church and is the story of one man’s conversion from paganism to Christianity. ‘The Long Exile’ tells of a Russian man falsely accused of murder and sentenced to twenty six years of labor in Siberia, where he learns about truth and forgiveness. The third story, ‘Little Girls Wiser Than Their Elders,’ illustrates Jesus’ teaching that we must become like little children to enter the kingdom of God. All three stories maintain their original classic Russian folktale flavor while expressing and expounding Tolstoy’s fervent and thoughtful faith in the gospel.

Master and Man

Leo Tolstoy had a profound influence on people through out the Western world. Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher. Tolstoy was a member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. He was known as an educational reformer, pacifist and Christian anarchist. His masterpiece War and Peace made him one of the world’s greatest novelists. His ability to depict life in 19th century Russia made him a leader in realist fiction. Tolstoy’s stand on nonviolent resistance influenced twentieth century people such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Ghandi. A landowner named Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey to the house of the owner of a forest. The master is in a hurry and become lost in the middle of a blizzard, but the master in his avarice wishes to press on. The peasant is dying from exposure to the cold. The master lies on the servant saving his life.

The Devil

Toward the end of 1880, when Tolstoy was fifty two, he was overcome by sexual desire for a tall, healthy, attractive young woman with a fine figure and beautiful complexion, though not otherwise particularly handsome servant girl called Domna. He had dreamed of her, followed her and at last had arranged a rendezvous with her. This temptation tormented him and he had the servant removed to another place. After the danger was over Tolstoy seldom referred to the incident unless to those who spoke to him of their own sexual difficulties, but on one occasion he wrote a full account of it to a friend. The incident resulted in his writing ‘The Devil‘ the hero of which yields to a temptation of such as that Tolstoy had encountered. The relations of the sexes in Russian society of his day resembled that in English society today more than in English society of that period when, both in literature and in life, repression and suppression of passion was more common. In ‘The Devil‘ he expressed the views he held, Tolstoy was consciously opposing the current of life around him, and these works also run counter to the movement of our own society today 1926. That however does not detract from the value of the work. The belief that ill results follow from the indulgence of the sexual instincts is not an obsolete eccentricity, but a belief held by many men in many ages, and it receives sufficient confirmation from experience to make it certain that it is a view which has to be reckoned with. Leo Tolstoy 1828 1910 was a Russian writer and philosopher whose great novels ‘War and Peace’ 1864 1869 and ‘Anna Karenina’ 1873 1876 offer extraordinary detail and profound psychological insights. His later theories of ethics and morality recommended nonparticipation in and passive resistance to evil.

Father Sergius

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher. Tolstoy was a member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. He was known as an educational reformer, pacifist and Christian anarchist. His masterpiece War and Peace made him one of the world’s greatest novelists. His ability to depict life in 19th century Russia made him a leader in realist fiction. Tolstoy s stand on nonviolent resistance influenced twentieth century people such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Ghandi. In Petersburg there was a handsome prince, Stepan Kasatsky, who was an officer in the Cuirassier Life Guards. His future looked certain to becoming the aide de camp to the Emperor Nicholas. He left the service and broke his engagement to a beautiful young girl when on the eve of their wedding he found out she was having an affair with Nicholas. He became a monk. Many years of humility and doubt follow, and now a hermit, he performs miracles for the village natives. Moments of temptation test his faith, and unfortunate instances of female provocation lead to his failure.

The Forged Coupon

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1828 1910 commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He was the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His first publications were three autobiographical novels, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth 1852 1856. They tell of a rich landowner’s son and his slow realization of the differences between him and his peasants. As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace 1869 and Anna Karenina 1877. In their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of 19th century Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realist fiction. As a moral philosopher Tolstoy was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through works such as The Kingdom of God is Within You 1894.

Hadji Murat

Hadji Murat, one of the most feared and venerated mountain chiefs in the Chechen struggle against the Russians, defects from the Muslim rebels after feuding with his ruling Imam, Shamil. Hoping to protect his family, he joins the Russians, who accept him but never put their trust in him and so Murat must find another way to end the struggle.

Divine and Human and Other Stories

Divine and Human stands apart as both a landmark in literary history and master piece of spiritual and ethical reflection. Suppressed in turn by the tzarist and Soviet regime, the tales contained in this book have, for the most part, never been published in English until now. Emerging at last, they offer western readers fresh glimpses of novelist and philosopher Leo Tolstoy. Divine and Human consists of choice selections from The Sunday Reading Stories, the second volume in a two part work titled The Circle of Reading. In the words of translator Peter Sekirin, ‘Tolstoy considered The Circle of Reading to be the major work of his life. Considering its difficult history, it is not surprising that only recently has it been rediscovered.’ From its sparkling vignettes to its lengthier stories, Divine and Human probes the complexities of life and faith. Its characters range the spectrum of human emotions and qualities, from hatred to love and joy to grief; from sublime nobility to grotesque self absorption. Tolstoy’s world, though far removed from today’s information age, becomes our world indeed, has always been and always will be our world. Motor cars may have replaced horse drawn cars, but human hearts remain the same, and questions of truth, mercy, forgiveness, devotion, justice, and the nature of God knock as insistently on the doors of our lives today as they did in Tolstoy’s time. Welcome, then, to Divine and Human: a buried treasure at last unearthed, and certain to be prized by Tolstoy readers and lovers of great literature.

A Lost Opportunity

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The Long Exile and Other Stories

The contents of this volume illustrate Count Tolstoy’s versatility to a remarkable degree. His stories for children are marked by the simplicity and sincerity that children demand. What could be more fascinating to a boy than his description of his dogs? And is there anything in literature, anywhere, more perfect in its absolute symmetry, its inherent pathos, and its unobtrusive moral than the story called in the original ‘God Sees the Truth’?

Tolstoy’s theory of freedom in the school reminds one of that set forth by the American educator, A. Broson Alcott, and to a certain extent employed by him under very different conditions. It has in it the incontrovertible truth that children study best that which interests them, and that they may be led more successfully than driven into the paths of learning.

His arguments against examinations as tests of knowledge coincide with the experience of most teachers. They have their place, but altogether too much stress is laid on them in our schools and colleges, and as they are generally conducted they do more harm than good. They lead to cumulative cramming, and they are almost invariably unfair.

An Old Acquaintance

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1828 1910 commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He was the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His first publications were three autobiographical novels, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth 1852 1856. They tell of a rich landowner’s son and his slow realization of the differences between him and his peasants. As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace 1869 and Anna Karenina 1877. In their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of 19th century Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realist fiction. As a moral philosopher Tolstoy was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through works such as The Kingdom of God is Within You 1894.

What Men Live by and Other Tales

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1828 1910 commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He was the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His first publications were three autobiographical novels, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth 1852 1856. They tell of a rich landowner’s son and his slow realization of the differences between him and his peasants. As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace 1869 and Anna Karenina 1877. In their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of 19th century Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realist fiction. As a moral philosopher Tolstoy was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through works such as The Kingdom of God is Within You 1894.

How Much Land Does a Man Need? and Other Stories

These short works, ranging from Tolstoy’s earliest tales to the brilliant title story, are rich in the insights and passion that characterize all of his explorations in love, war, courage, and civilization.

The Candle

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The Godson

Rediscover the great Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy with his stories of faith. Author of the classics War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy also created dozens of powerful short stories that illuminate Christianity and the gospel. The Godson, the third volume in a series of beautiful collections of Tolstoy’s stories, offers three more provocative tales. Told in a classic Russian folktale style, ‘The Godson,’ ‘The Devil’s Persistent, but God Is Resistant,’ and ‘The Two Old Men’ demonstrate atonement, obedience, God’s power, and a Christian’s spiritual journey. These inspiring stories illustrate essential truths of Christianity in creative and memorable ways. Readers of all generations will treasure Tolstoy’s combination of classic storytelling and passionate faith.

The Wisdom of Children

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Two Old Men

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Esarhaddon, And Other Tales

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The Power of Darkness

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1828 1910 commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He was the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His first publications were three autobiographical novels, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth 1852 1856. They tell of a rich landowner’s son and his slow realization of the differences between him and his peasants. As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace 1869 and Anna Karenina 1877. In their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of 19th century Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realist fiction. As a moral philosopher Tolstoy was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through works such as The Kingdom of God is Within You 1894.

The Light That Shines in the Darkness

The Man Who Was Dead, The Cause of it All, and The Light That Shines in the Darkness are the three plays left by Tolstoy for publication after his death. The Light That Shines in the Darkness the last of Tolstoy’s plays, was left unfinished. In Russia it is prohibited on account of its allusions to the refusal of military service. Yet it is in some ways the most interesting of Tolstoy s posthumous works. It is obviously not strictly autobiographical, for Tolstoy was not assassinated as the hero of the piece is, nor was his daughter engaged to be married to a young prince who refused military service. But like some of his other writings, the play is semi autobiographical. In it, not only has Tolstoy utilized personal experiences, but more than that, he answers the question so often asked: Why, holding his views, did he not free himself from property before he grew old?

The Man Who Was Dead and the Cause of It All

Of the three plays left by Tolstoy for publication after his death, one is a short two act Temperance play called in English The Cause of it All the Russian title is a colloquialism difficult to render, but ‘From it all evil flows’ is as near as one can get to it. It does not claim to be a piece of much importance, but if ever it is staged, it should act easily and well. Another of these posthumous plays is The Man Who Was Dead The Live Corpse, a powerful piece, in which Tolstoy introduces one of those gipsy choirs which had such an influence on him and still more on his brother Sergius when he was a young man of twenty to twenty three, before he went to the Caucasus and entered the army. The last of Tolstoy’s plays, The Light That Shines in Darkness, was left unfinished.

The Living Corpse

The drama The Living Corpse was written in 1900, at Pirogov the estate of Sergey Nikolaevich, Tolstoy’s brother and at Yasnaya Polyana Tolstoy s own estate.

What Then Must We Do?

Poverty, exploitation and greed seem to be perennial aspects of the human condition and it is these issues that Tolstoy addresses in ‘What Then Must We Do??’ At the time of its publication, the book had a great impact on thinking people both in Russia and abroad, who acknowledged the power of his account of life in the Moscow slums. In examining the causes of poverty through the ages, Tolstoy develops a vision of a way of life that would deny the possibility of the exploitation of one person by another: a vision of self discipline and responsibility, of joy, passion and compassion, in which work for its own sake plays an essential part as a means to a healthy and kindly life.

A Confession

A Confession‘ is Tolstoy’s chronicle of his journey to faith; his account of how he moved from despair to the possibility of living; from unhappy existence to ‘the glow and strength of life’. It describes his spiritual and philosophical struggles up until he leaves the Orthodox Church, convinced that humans discover truth not by faith, but by reason. The story begins when at the age of 50, Tolstoy is in crisis. Having found no peace in art, science or philosophy, he is attacked by the black dog of despair, and considers suicide. His past life is reappraised and found wanting; as slowly light dawns within. ‘As gradually, imperceptibly as life had decayed in me, until I reached the impossibility of living, so gradually I felt the glow and strength of life return to me…
I returned to a belief in God.’ Here is a quest for meaning at the close of the 19th century a time of social, scientific and intellectual turbulence, in which old forms were under threat. Tolstoy looks around at both old and new alike, and like the author of Ecclesiastes, discovers that ‘All is vanity’. His spiritual discoveries first take him into the arms of the Orthodox Church; and then force his angry departure from it. ‘My Religion’ carries on from where ‘A Confession‘ left off. Describing himself as a former nihilist, Tolstoy develops his attack on the church he has left. He accuses them of hiding the true meaning of Jesus, which is to be found in the Sermon on the Mount; and most clearly, in the call not to resist evil. For Tolstoy, it is this command which has been most damaged by ecclesiastical interpretation. ‘Not everyone,’ he writes, ‘is able to understand the mysteries of dogmatics, homilectics, liturgics, hermeneutics, apologetics; but everyone is able and ought to understand what Christ said to the millions of simple and ignorant people who have lived and are living today.’ Here is Tolstoy’s religion; and non violence is at its heart. Simon Parke, author of The Beautiful Life

The Gospel in Brief

The Gospel in Brief is Leo Tolstoy’s integration of the four biblical Gospels into a single account of the life of Jesus. Inspired in large measure by Tolstoy’s meticulous study of the original Greek versions of the Bible, The Gospel in Brief is a highly original fusion of biblical texts and Tolstoy’s own influential religious views. Tolstoy explains that his goal is a solution to ‘the problem of life,’ not an answer to theological or historical questions. As a result, he sets aside such issues as Jesus’ genealogy and divinity, or whether Jesus in fact walked on water. Instead, he focuses on the words and teachings of Jesus, stripped of what Tolstoy regarded as the Church’s distortions and focus on dogma and ritual. The result is a work that emphasizes the necessity of maintaining one’s spiritual condition in a chaotic and indifferent world.

What I Believe

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: find his happiness in obeying it. It may be said that it is foolish; that, as unbelievers pretend, Jesus was a visionary, an idealist, whose impracticable rules were only followed because of the stupidity of his / disciples. But it is impossible not to admit that Jesus did say very clearly and definitely that which he intended to say: namely, that men should not resist evil; and that therefore he who accepts his’ teaching cannot resist. Nevertheless, neither believers, nor unbelievers, understand these words of Jesus in this clear and simple sense. / CHAPTER II THE CENTRAL DOCTRINE When I understood that the words, ‘ Resist not Evil,’ mean Resist not Evil, all my previous ideas of Christ’s meaning were suddenly changed; and I was terrified, not so much at my former ignorance of his teaching as at the strange misinterpretation which had been mine. I knew, we all know, that the essence of Christianity is love. To say, ‘Turn the other cheek to the smiter, Love your enemies,’ is to express the vital principle of Christianity. I had known this from childhood; but why had I not understood these simple words simplywithout seeking in them an allegorical sense ? ‘ Resist not evil,’ means ‘Resist not evil at any time’; that is to say, ‘ Never employ force, never do what is con trary to love; antl’lfinen still’ offend you, put up with the offence; employ no force against force.’ It would be impossible to speak more clearly and simply than this. How, then, could I, believing as I believed, or at least endeavoured to believe, that he who thus spoke is God how could I have ever said that to carry this out is above my strength, is impossible? The mastersayjL t.n.. mi . .’.’fj n and cut wood,’, and I answerTrrTcaiuiofr do it of my. unaided strength.’ Saying this I meaa oe afLij ot…

On Life and Essays on Religion

On Life and Essays on Religion BY LEO TOLST6Y Translated with an Introduction by AYLMER MAUDE D. P. R. 1. cc. No. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON HUMPHREY MILFORD LEO TOLSTOY Born, Yasnaya Polyana, Tula August 28 old style September 9, n. s., 1828 Died, Astap6vo, Riazdn November 9 old style November 22, n. s., 1910 I 0n Life was first published in 1887, and the essays between 1894. and 1909. In The Worlds Classics Mr. Aylmer Maudes translation was first published in 1934. 7. 00 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN CONTENTS INTRODUCTION BY AYLMER MAUDE . vii ON LIFE. 1887 i RELIGION AND MORALITY. 1894 . . 168 REASON AND RELIGION. 1894 . . 199 HOW TO READ THE GOSPELS. 1896 . 205 PREFACE TO THE CHRISTIAN TEACHING 1 . 1898…

209 A REPLY TO THE SYNODS EDICT OF EXCOM MUNICATION. 1901…
. 214 WHAT IS RELIGION 1902…
226 AN APPEAL TO THE CLERGY. 1302 . . 282 THE RESTORATION OF HELL. 1903 . . 309 CHURCH AND STATE. 1904…
331 THE TEACHING OF JESUS. 1909 . . 347 INDEX 410 INTRODUCTION ON LIFE is Tolst6ys statement of the conclusions he had reached by 1887 after ten years devoted to thought and study on religion. No one acquainted with his life and works can reasonably doubt that he was one of the frankest and sincerest men who ever lived, but if further evidence on that point were needed, this work would supply it, considering the circumstances under which it was written. By a careful study of the Church creeds Tolstoy had reached the conclusion that they consist of meaningless verbiage and incredible statements which afford no real guidance for life. An even more intense and prolonged study of the Gospels convinced him that the understanding of life held by Jesus was reasonable, and affords the best possible guidance for life. But it seemed to him that the Church, by declaring the sixty six books in the Bible to be all equally inspired by God, had reduced them to one dead level, so that the precepts of Jesus are presented as no more divine than the legends of the Old Testament, or the record of the cruel deeds of a jealous Jehovah. More than that, he was convinced that the essential teaching of Jesus has been twisted to link it up with the Jewish Scriptures, and with records interspersed with miracles to attract the belief of an evil and adulterous generation seeking after a sign, and has been misinterpreted in order to secure authority for a Church which when persecuting its rivals has not scrupled to slay thousands of human beings. He therefore defines the Church as power in the hands of certain men. At the very peak of literary success he devoted viii INTRODUCTION ten years of his life to this study of religion, and to clarify his conclusions wrote the works contained in this and another volume, well knowing that their publication would be prohibited, and that even if clandestinely circulated they would call down on him the ridicule of the advanced section of Russian society, then for the most part under the influence of the materialistic philosophy which, following on the success of Darwins teaching, expected ere long to be able to explain man by mechanics and demon strate the senselessness of all religion. To them the fact that the author of War and Peace seriously occupied himself with religion seemed almost to indicate that he had taken leave of his senses. On the other hand the Orthodox Russo Greek Church, under the guidance of Pobedon6stsev, the lay Head of the Most Holy Synod, actively persecuted dis senters, suppressed books it disapproved of, and though, after some hesitation, it refrained from physically molesting Tolstoy, he knew that he was exposing himself and his friends to danger and incurring the grave displeasure of the authorities of Church and State. He also incurred the dis approval and hostility of his wife, to whom the favour of the powers that be was of much concern…

The Kingdom of God Is Within You

Published in 1884, ‘The Kingdom of God Is Within You‘ is perhaps Tolstoy’s most significant work of non fiction. Due to the Russian censors, it was first published in Germany, but its dominant idea of non violence echoed across the international stage throughout the 20th century. In essence, the book is a defence by Tolstoy of the position on non violence he adopted in ‘My Religion’; and therefore also an assault on the Orthodox Church. ‘Nowhere,’ says Tolstoy, ‘is there evidence that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.’ And in what it now proclaimed, Tolstoy believed the church was wasting its time: ‘The activity of the church consists in forcing, by every means in its power, upon millions Russian people, those antiquated, time worn beliefs which have lost all significance.’ Freshly informed by Quaker ideals of non violence; and full of both story telling and rhetoric, here is Tolstoy calling for a change in consciousness in society. He does not accept that ‘this social order, with its pauperism, famines, prisons, gallows, armies and wars, is necessary to society.’ That which is, is not that which must be. Rooted in the Sermon on the Mount, Tolstoy’s Christianity is not primarily concerned with worship or salvation, but with a new way of behaving in society behaviour informed by the pointlessness and sin of violence. Tolstoy tellingly reflects on the army at work whether in internal repression or in national wars and asks: ‘How can you kill people when it is written in God’s commandment ‘Thou shall not murder?’ Gandhi was ‘overwhelmed’ by the book, said ‘it left an abiding impression’, and in time, a correspondence started between the two men. The book convinced Gandhi that Hinduism and Christianity were one and the same at their core, and informed his passive resistance first in South Africa and then India; and later, of course, that of Martin Luther King in the USA. Simon Parke, author of The One Minute Mystic

Bethink Yourselves!

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1828 1910 commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He was the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His first publications were three autobiographical novels, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth 1852 1856. They tell of a rich landowner’s son and his slow realization of the differences between him and his peasants. As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace 1869 and Anna Karenina 1877. In their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of 19th century Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realist fiction. As a moral philosopher Tolstoy was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through works such as The Kingdom of God is Within You 1894.

A Calendar of Wisdom

This is the first ever English language edition of the book Leo Tolstoy considered to be his most important contribution to humanity, the work of his life’s last years. Widely read in prerevolutionary Russia, banned and forgotten under Communism; and recently rediscovered to great excitement, A Calendar of Wisdom is a day by day guide that illuminates the path of a life worth living with a brightness undimmed by time. Unjustly censored for nearly a century, it deserves to be placed with the few books in our history that will never cease teaching us the essence of what is important in this world.

Tolstoy on Shakespeare

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1828 1910 commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He was the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His first publications were three autobiographical novels, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth 1852 1856. They tell of a rich landowner’s son and his slow realization of the differences between him and his peasants. As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace 1869 and Anna Karenina 1877. In their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of 19th century Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realist fiction. As a moral philosopher Tolstoy was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through works such as The Kingdom of God is Within You 1894. During his life, Tolstoy came to the conclusion that William Shakespeare is a bad dramatist and not a true artist at all. Tolstoy explained his views in a critical essay on Shakespeare written in 1903.

The Law of Love and the Law of Violence

The only reason that Tolstoy wrote The Law of Love and the Law of Violence is because, knowing the one means of salvation for Christian humanity, from its physical suffering as well as from the moral corruption in which it is sunk, Tolstoy, who was on the edge of the grave, could not be silent.

The cause of the unhappy situation of Christian humanity is the lack of a superior conception of life and a rule of conduct in accordance with it, a rule held in common by all people professing Christianity.

It is interesting to see what Tolstoy thought of the state of the world just before the Great War. In spite of his apparent pessimism, he was as hopeful as Mr. H.G. Wells for the future condition of mankind. But in his sweeping denunciation of legislators, judges, and all sorts of authorities, he went far beyond the English writer, who says: ‘Our state could have grown up in no other way. We had to have these general dealers in human relationship, politicians and lawyers, as a necessary stage in political and social advancement. Just as we had to have soldiers and policemen to save people from mutual violence.’

Guy De Maupassant

A little known study of de Maupassant by the great Russian novelist.

Christianity and Patriotism

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What Is to Be Done? and Life

As a fiction writer, Leo Tolstoy 2838 2920 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 19th century Russian l

Church and State and Other Essays

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The Four Gospels Harmonized and Translated by Leo Tolstoy

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What is Art?

Both critics and admirers of Tolstoy’s great novels were shocked by the savage iconoclasm of his ‘What is Art??’ when it appeared in 1898. How was it that this great artist could condemn the works of Shakespeare, Raphael, Beethoven and even his own ‘Anna Karenina’ as ‘false art’? Today’s reader still has to grapple with that paradox. The essay still has the power to challenge and provoke, for it was written by a giant who took art seriously while western civilization toyed with it as a mere pastime. For Tolstoy, art was as natural and as necessary for humankind as speech.

In his introduction to this translation, W. Gareth Jones shows how vitally Tolstoy’s personality and experience of life were engaged in creating ‘What is Art??’, how integral the essay was to his art and teaching, and why it still continues to demand a response from us.

Magical Realist Fiction

This capacious 520 pages anthology has selections from the authors you would expect to find, from others you may be less familiar with, and from writers you might not expect to show up in this company. The result is a treasure trove of unusual fiction spanning authors from Gogol and Kafka through Woolf and Nabokov to Calvino, Garcia Marquez, and Barthelme one of the most exciting anthologies to appear in the last decade. This is a poet’s companion, a student’s delight, great bedside reading: the kind of book you’d take to a desert island!

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