Works by
Leo Tolstoy
(Writer)

• Childhood (or Detstvo) (1852)

• The Raid (1853)

• Boyhood (Or Otrotshestvo (1854)

• A Landowner's Morning (1856)

• The Sebastopol Sketches (1856)

• Youth (1856)

• Family Happiness (1859)
  Each of the 6 powerful tales in this collection exhibits the rich detail, shrewd observations, and vivid narration that characterize Tolstoy's famous novels. In addition to the title story, this compilation includes "Three Deaths," "The Three Hermits," "The Devil," "Father Sergius," and "Master and Man."

• The Cossacks Kazaki (1863)
  This 1862 novel, in a vibrant new translation by Peter Constantine, is Tolstoy’s semiautobiographical story of young Olenin, a wealthy, disaffected Muscovite who joins the Russian army and travels to the untamed frontier of the Caucasus in search of a more authentic life. While striving to adopt the rough and ready lifestyle of the local Cossacks, Olenin falls in love with a free-spirited girl whose fiancé turns out to be a formidable opponent. Showcasing the philosophical insight that would characterize Tolstoy’s later masterpieces, this long overdue translation is a revelation.  See also Tolstoy's Cossacks, an analysis by Edward Jamosky

• War and Peace (1869)
  Widely considered the greatest novel ever written in any language, War and Peace has as its backdrop Napoleon’s invasion of Russia and at its heart three of the most memorable characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, a quixotic young man in search of spiritual joy; Prince Andrey Bolkonsky, a cynical intellectual transformed by the suffering of war; and the bewitching and impulsive Natasha Rostov, daughter of a count. As they seek fulfillment, fall in love, make mistakes, and become scarred by battle in different ways, these characters and their stories interweave with those of a huge cast, from aristocrats to peasants, from soldiers to Napoleon himself. In this first English translation in more than forty years, Anthony Briggs faithfully reveals Tolstoy’s art in stirring prose, clearing up ambiguities that have plagued many modern translations. This volume also includes an afterword by eminent historian Orlando Figes, a list of characters, descriptions of the three main battles, chapter summaries, and notes. Both epic and intimate, a compassionate portrait of humanity and an engrossing read, this is the War and Peace of choice for a whole new generation.
  Movie (1956) Directed by King Vidor with Audrey Hepburn and Henry Fonda  DVD VHS
  Movie (1967) Directed by Sergei Bondarchukith Ludmila Saveleyeva with Vyacheslav Tihonov   DVD  VHS

• A Prisoner in the Caucasus (1872)

• Anna Karenina (1877) -- 2004 Oprah Book Club selection
  Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness. While previous versions have softened the robust, and sometimes shocking, quality of Tolstoy's writing, Pevear and Volokhonsky have produced a translation true to his powerful voice. This award-winning team's authoritative edition also includes an illuminating introduction and explanatory notes. Beautiful, vigorous, and eminently readable, this Anna Karenina will be the definitive text for generations to come.
  Movie (1915), Directed by J. Roy Edwards
  Movie: Love (1927), Directed by Edmund Goulding
  Movie (1935), Directed by Clarence Brown with Basil Rathbone and Greta Garbo  DVD  VHS
  Movie (1948), Directed by Julien Duvivier with Vivien Leigh  DVD VHS
  Movie (1967), Directed by Aleksandr Zarkhi with Nikolai Gritsenko and Tatyana Samojlova  DVD
  Movie (1985), Directed by Simon Langton with Christopher Reeve and Jacqueline Bisset  VHS
  Movie: Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (1997) Directed by Bernard Rose with Sean Bean and Sophie Marceau  DVD  VHS
  Movie (Masterpiece Theater, 2001), Directed by David Blair with Helen McCrory, Kevin McKidd  DVD  VHS

• A Confession (1882)

• What I Believe (1883)

• What Men Live (1885)

• How Much Land Does a Man Need? (1886)

• The First Distiller (1886)

• The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886)
  Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?
  
  This short novel was the artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction. A thoroughly absorbing and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation.
  Movie (2002), Directed by Bernard Rose with Adam Krentzman, Danny Huston, James Merendino, Lisa Enos, and Peter Weller

• The Power of Darkness (1888)

• The Kreutzer Sonata (1887-89)

• The Devil (1890)

• The Fruits of Enlightenment (1891)

• Master And Man (1895)

• What Is Art? (1898)

• Father Sergius (1898)

• Resurrection (1899)

• The Live Corpse (1900)

• After the Ball (1903)

• The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories (1960)

• Recollections & Essays (1961)

• Short Novels (1965)

• Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy (1967)

• Why Do Men Stupefy Themselves?  And Other Writings  (1975)

• Master and Man and Other Stories (1977)

• The Portable Tolstoy (1978)

• Tolstoy's Letters (1978) with Reginald Frank Christian, ed.

• The Raid and Other Stories (1982)

• Tolstoy on Education (1982)

• A Prisoner in the Caucasus and Other Stories (1983)

• The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories (1985)

• Tolstoy's Diaries, 1847-1894; 1895-1910  (1985)

• The Lion and the Honeycomb (1987)

• Father Sergius and Other Stories (1988)

• Tolstoy's Writings on Civil Disobedience and Non-Violence (1988)

• Tolstoy's Short Fiction (1991)

• The Gospel According to Tolstoy (1992)

• Walk in the Light & Twenty-Three Tales (1999)

Other

• Quintet: Stories (1956)
  With selections by Aldous Huxley, Guy De Maupassant, Leo Tolstoy, Richard Wright, and William Saroyan

See also:

• Love and Hatred: The Tormented Marriage of Leo and Sonya Tolstoy (1994) by William L. Shirer