Leo Tolstoy bibliography

This is a list of works by Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, including his novels, novellas, short stories, fables and parables, plays, and nonfiction.

Prose fiction

Novels

The Autobiographical Trilogy
*Childhood
*Boyhood
*Youth Cossacks
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
Resurrection
''Hadji Murat''

Novellas

Landowner's Morning Two Hussars Family Happiness Polikúshka Death of Ivan Ilyich Walk in the Light While There is Light Kreutzer Sonata Devil Master and Man Father Sergius

''The Forged Coupon''

Stories for children

From ''ABC'' (1872) and ''New ABC'' (1875) textbooks

ABC :
* I.
* II.
** The Sea
** Blind and Deaf
** How I stopped being afraid of Blind Beggars
** Mouse-girl
** Lipunyushka
* III.
** Elephant
** Chinese Queen Silinchi
** How the Bukharians Learned to Breed Silkworms
** Eskimos
** From Speed Comes Power
** How they Repaired a House in the City of Paris
** Where Does the Water from the Sea Go?
* IV.
** Fool
** Svyatogor Bogatyr
ABC :
*I.
*II.
**Girl and mushrooms
**What kind of dew is on the grass?
** The Indian and the Englishman
** Old Horse
** Orel
** Bear on a cart
** Mad dog
** Vest
** The Lion and the Dog
** Sparrow
** The Bishop and the Robber
** Lozina
** 1000 Gold
* III.
** Grass Snake
** Luck
** Two brothers
** Peter the Great and the Muzhik
** Three Thieves
** An Equal Inheritance
* IV.
** Shat and Don
** Volga and Vazuza
** Sudoma
** Golden-haired princess
** Cambyses and Psamenit
** Yermak
** Owl and Hare
** How Wolves Teach Their Children
** Sparrow and swallows
** Shark
* V.
** How a man removed a stone
** Rolled cigarette
** Warmth I
** Warmth II
** Warmth III
** Why is there wind?
** What is the wind for?
** Why do windows sweat and there is dew?
** Touch and vision
** Magnetism I
** Magnetism II
** Magnetism III
* VI. Sukhman
ABC :
* I. - V.
* VI.
** King's son and his comrades
** The Righteous Judge
** How a Man Divided Geese
** Severe Punishment
** The Tsar's Brothers
* VII.
** How I Learned to Ride
** Soldier's Household
* VIII.
** Bulka
** Bulka and Boar
** Pheasants
** Milton and Bulka
** Turtle
** Bulka and Wolf
** What Happened to Bulka in Pyatigorsk
** The End of Bulka and Milton
** Rusak
* IX.
** Foundation of Rome
** How the Geese Saved Rome
** Polycrates of Samos
** God Sees the Truth, But Waits
* X.
** Apple Trees
** Bugs
** Hare and Hound
** Hares and Wolves
** Senses
** Why Does Frost Crack Trees?
** Dampness I
** Dampness II
** Different Connections of Particles
** Ice, Water and Steam
** Crystals
* XI. Volga Bogatyr
ABC :
* I.
* II.
** The King and the shirt
** Why is there evil in the world
** Raven and little crows
** The Wolf and the Man
** The Tsar's New Dress
* III.
** Jump
** Hunting is Worse than Slavery
* IV. A Prisoner in the Caucasus
* V.
** Fox tail
** Silkworm
** Old poplar
** Bird cherry
** How the trees walk
** Specific gravity
** Harmful air
** Gases I
** Gases II
** How to make balloons
** An Aeronaut's Tale
** Galvanism
** The sun is warm
* VI. Mikulushka Selyaninovich
New ABC:
* Burden
* Big Stove
* Nakhodka
* The Girl and the Robbers
* Walnut Branch
* Birdie
* Three Bears
* How Uncle Semyon Talked About What Happened to Him in the Forest
* Cow
* Philippok

Additional stories for children

"Karma"
"Wolf"

Unfinished

"A Christmas Night"
"Uncle Zhdanov and Mr. Chernov"
"Tikhon and Melanya"
Novel set during the reign of Peter the Great
"The Decemberists"
"Who is Right?"
"Khodynka: An Incident of the Coronation of Nicholas II"
"Memoirs of a Madman"
"Posthumous Notes of the Hermit Fëdor Kuzmich"
"There Are No Guilty People"

Drama

Plays

Dialogues

"Wisdom of Children"

Non-fiction

Books

Religious Treatise in Three Volumes
*Introduction: A Confession
*Vol. 1: A Criticism of Dogmatic Theology
*Vol. 2: The Four Gospels Harmonized and Translated
**The Gospel in Brief
*Vol. 3: What I Believe
What Shall We Do Then?
On Life
Power and Liberty
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
What Is Art?
Shakespeare and the Drama
''A Calendar of Wisdom''

Pamphlets

Why Do Men Intoxicate Themselves?
Christianity and Patriotism
The Christian Teaching
Patriotism and Government
The Slavery of Our Times
Need it Be So?
The Only Means
What Is Religion and What is its Essence?
Appeal to the Working People
Appeal to the Clergy
Bethink Yourselves!
A Great Iniquity
The End of the Age
The Meaning of the Russian Revolution
''The Inevitable Revolution''

Articles

Articles written for Tolstoy's Yasnaya Polyana journal on education
*"On Methods of Teaching the Rudiments"
*"A Project of a General Plan for the Establishment of Popular Schools"
*"Education and Culture"
*"Are the Peasant Children to Learn to Write from Us?"
*"The School at Yasnaya Polyana"
*"Progress and the Definition of Education"
"On Popular Education"
"On the Moscow Census"
"Church and State"
"What is the Truth in Art?"
"What a Christian May Do"
"The Holiday of Enlightenment of the 12th of January"
"Afterward to Kreutzer Sonata"
"On the Relation between the Sexes"
Articles on the Famine
*"The Terrible Question"
*"On the Methods of Aiding the People Who Have Suffered from the Failure of Crops"
*"Among the Suffering "
*"Account of the Money Contributed from April 12 to July 27, 1892"
*"Conclusion to Last Report on the Aid to the Starving"
"Non-Activity"
"The Persecution of Christians in Russia"
"God or Mammon?"
"Shame!"
Meaningless aspirations
"How to Read the Gospel and What is its Essence?"
"The Beginning of the End"
"Nobel's Bequest"
"Famine or No Famine?"
"Carthago Delenda Est"
"Two Wars"
"Where is the Way Out?: On the Condition of the Laboring Classes"
"Thou Shalt Not Kill"
"On Suicide"
"On the Street Riots"
"Reply to the Holy Synod's Decree of Excommunication"
"The Soldiers' Memento"
"The Officers' Memento"
"To the Tsar and His Associates"
"On Religious Toleration"
"The Crisis in Russia"
"Do Not Kill"
"Love Each Other"
I cannot be silent
"The Only Command"
"Three Days in the Village"
"Singing In The Village"
"A Talk With A Wayfarer"

Letters and correspondence

Among Tolstoy's countless letters and pieces of correspondence, the works below consist mostly of those that were published in Tolstoy's lifetime or shortly after his death.

Letter to a Revolutionist
Letter to N. N. Engelhard
Letter to a Kind Youth
"Manual Labor and Intellectual Activity": A Letter to a Frenchman, Romain Rolland
Letter to A.V. Vlasov
"On Non-Resistance to Evil"
Letter to Sofia Tolstaya on the Famine
Letters on Henry George
"Religion and Morality": A reply to questions from the German Ethical Society
"Replies to Critics"
*Letter to the Editor of the Daily Chronicle
*Letter to a Polish journalist, Marian Edmundovich
"Reason and Religion"
Correspondence with P. V. Verigin of the Dukhobors
"Patriotism or Peace": A letter to Manson
"Non-Resistance": A letter to Ernest H. Crosby
Letter to the Minister of Internal Affairs and to the Minister of Justice
Letter to the Chief of the Irkutsk Disciplinary Battalion
"On the Deception of the Church"
"A Letter to the Liberals": to Alexandra Kalmykov
Letter to Eugen Heinrich Schmitt
Letter to the Dukhobors in the Caucasus
"Three Phases of Life"
"Concerning the Congress of Peace": A letter to certain Swedes
Letter to a Corporal
"The Commune and the World": A letter to D. A. Khilkov
Correspondence with the Dukhobors in Canada
Letter to Tsar Nicholas II
Letters to Free Thought, a Bulgarian periodical
Letter to the Tolstoy Society of Manchester, England
Letter to an Orthodox Priest
Letter to a French Pastor
"On the Franco-Russian Alliance": A letter to Pietro Mazzini
Letter to the Orthodox Clergy
Letter to a Jew
A Letter to a Hindu, the editor of the magazine Free Hindustan
Correspondence with Gandhi

Supplements to works of others

"To N. N. Ge's Painting: 'Christ's Last Discourse with His Disciples'"
Supplementary essay for Timofei Bondarev's The Triumph of the Farmer or Industry and Parasitism
"Apropos of A. I. Ershov's Book Recollections from Sevastopol"
Introduction to the Russian translation of Alice Stockham's Tokology: A Book for Every Woman
"The First Step": An introduction to the Russian translation of Howard Williams's The Ethics of Diet
Introduction to Henri-Frédéric Amiel's Journal
Introduction to The Works of Guy de Maupassant
Introduction to S. T. Semenov's Peasant Stories
Epilogue to Drozhzhin's Life and Death
"Help!": A postscript to "An Appeal to Help the Dukhobors Persecuted in the Caucasus" written by associates of Tolstoy
Preface to Carpenter's article, "Modern Science"
Introduction to W. von Polenz's ''Der Büttnerbauer''

From Diary

"A History of Yesterday"
"Grateful Soil"

Pedagogical works

''ABC'' (Азбука) (1872)

Source:

BOOK 1

Part 1. Alphabet and Phonics
Part 2. Reading Part 3. Texts in Old East Slavic
* Excerpts from Nestor's Primary Chronicle
* Excerpts from Rostovsky's Chetya Minea
* Excerpts from the Old and New Testaments
'''Part 4. Arithmetic'''

BOOK 2

Part 1. Reading Part 2. Texts in Old East Slavic
* Excerpts from Nestor's Primary Chronicle
* Excerpts from Rostovsky's Chetya Minea
* Excerpts from the Old and New TestamentsPart 3. Arithmetic
* Addition and Subtraction

BOOK 3

Part 1. Reading Part 2. Texts in Old East Slavic

* Excerpts from Nestor's Primary Chronicle
* Excerpts from the Old and New TestamentsPart 3. Arithmetic
* Multiplication and Division

BOOK 4