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 The Autobiographical Trilogy Childhood (Детство, 1852) Boyhood (Отрочество, 1854) Youth (Юность, 1857) Cossacks (Казаки, 1852–1863) War and Peace (Война и мир, 1864–1869, rev. 1873) Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина, 1875–1877) Resurrection (Воскресение, 1889–1899)
Novellas Landowner's Morning (Утро помещика, 1856) Two Hussars (Два гусара, 1856) Family Happiness (Семейное счастье, 1859) Polikúshka (Поликушка, 1860) The 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, 1887–1889) 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) Hadji Murat (Хаджи-Мурат, 1896–1904)
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) "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)
"Kholstomer" (aka "Strider") ("Холстомер", 1863–1886) "Nicholas Stick" (1886) "An Old Acquaintance" (1887) "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) ("Корней Васильев", 1905) ("За что?", 1906) "What I saw in a Dream" ("Что я видел во сне", 1906)
Folk tales, 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) Stories for Lubki picture books (1885) "Evil Allures, But Good Endures" (lit. "Enemy is Crafty, but God is Strong") ("Вражье лепко, а божье крепко") "Little Girls are Wiser than Old Men" ("Девчонки умнее стариков") "Ilyás" ("Ильяс") "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) "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" ("Много ли человеку земли нужно", 1886) "Godson" ("Крестник", 1886) "Three Sons" ("Три сына", 1887) "Emelyan the Laborer and the Empty Drum" ("Работник Емельян и пустой барабан", 1891) "Dream of a Young Tsar" ("Сон молодого царя") (1894, pub. 1912) Three Untitled Parables (Три притчи) (1895) "Destruction and Restoration of Hell" ("Разрушение ада и восстановление его", 1902) Stories for Sholem Aleichem's Help: An Anthology for Literature and Art to aid the victims of the Kishinev pogrom (1903) "Esarhaddon, King of Assyria" ("Ассирийский царь Асархадон") "Work, Death, and Sickness" "Three Questions" ("Три вопроса")
Adaptations "Croesus and Fate" (adaptation of the Greek legend) (1886) "Françoise" (adaptation of a story by Guy de Maupassant) ("Франсуаза", 1891) "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) "Thief's Son" (adaptation of "Abused Before Christmas" by Nikolai Leskov) (1906) "Power of Childhood" (adaptation of Hugo's poem, "La guerre civile") ("Сила детства", 1908, pub. 1912)
Stories for children
From ABC (1872) and New ABC (1875) textbooks
ABC (Book 1, part 2): I. (22 Fables) 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 (Poem) Svyatogor Bogatyr (Bylina) ABC (Book 2, part 1): I. (25 Fables) II. Girl and mushrooms What kind of dew is on the grass? The Indian and the Englishman (American story) Old Horse Orel (American) Bear on a cart Mad dog Vest The Lion and the Dog (American) Sparrow The Bishop and the Robber (Victor Hugo) Lozina 1000 Gold (French) III. Grass Snake (folk) Luck (Indian) Two brothers (Arabic) Peter the Great and the Muzhik (Bezsonovo) Three Thieves (Gebel) An Equal Inheritance IV. Shat and Don (folk) Volga and Vazuza (Vladimir Dal) Sudoma (Perevlessky) Golden-haired princess (Chizhov) Cambyses and Psamenit (Herodotus) Yermak Owl and Hare How Wolves Teach Their Children Sparrow and swallows (Perevlessky) Shark (American) V. (Science Stories) 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 (Bylina)
ABC (Book 3, part 1): I. - V. (19 Fables) VI. King's son and his comrades (Turkish) The Righteous Judge (eastern fairy tale) How a Man Divided Geese Severe Punishment (Arabic) The Tsar's Brothers (Gebel) VII. How I Learned to Ride Soldier's Household VIII. (Stories of My Dogs) 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. (Science Stories) 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 (Bylina) ABC (Book 4, part 1): I. (12 Fables) II. The King and the shirt (Arabic) Why is there evil in the world (Indian) Raven and little crows (Lithuanian) The Wolf and the Man (folk) The Tsar's New Dress (H. C. Andersen) III. Jump (American) Hunting is Worse than Slavery (aka "The Bear Hunt") IV. A Prisoner in the Caucasus V. (Science Stories) 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 (Bylina) New ABC: 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)
Additional stories for children "Karma" (Adaptation of a Hindu Tale) ("Карма", 1894) ("Две различные версии истории улья с лубочной крышкой") (1900, pub. 1912) "Wolf" ("Волк") (1908)
Unfinished "A Christmas Night" ("Святочная ночь") (1853, pub. 1928) ("Как умирают русские солдаты") (1854, pub. 1928) "Uncle Zhdanov and Mr. Chernov" ("Дяденька Жданов и кавалер Чернов") (1854, pub. 1932) ("Идиллия") (1861–1862, pub. 1911) "Tikhon and Melanya" (1862) 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) "The Decemberists" (Декабристы) (Planned 1863, written 1878–1879, fragments published 1884) "Who is Right?" ("Кто прав?") (1891–1893, pub. 1911) "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) ("Отец Василий") (1906, pub. 1911) "There Are No Guilty People" (1909)
Drama Plays The Power of Darkness (Власть тьмы, 1886) The First Distiller (1886) The Fruits of Enlightenment (Плоды просвещения, 1889) The Light Shines in Darkness (unfinished, 1890) The Living Corpse (Живой труп, 1900; a.k.a. Redemption) The Cause of It All (1910)
Dialogues "Wisdom of Children" ("Проезжий и крестьянин", 1909, published 1917)
Non-fiction
Books Religious Treatise in Three Volumes (untitled) Introduction: A Confession (1879–1880) Vol. 1: A Criticism of Dogmatic Theology (1880–1882) Vol. 2: The Four Gospels Harmonized and Translated (1880–1882) The Gospel in Brief (Containing only the summaries and translations from Vol. 2) (1882) Vol. 3: What I Believe (aka My Religion) (1884) What Shall We Do Then? (1886) On Life (1887) Power and Liberty (1888) The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1891–1894) What Is Art? (1897) Shakespeare and the Drama (1909) A Calendar of Wisdom (compilation; 1909)
Pamphlets Why Do Men Intoxicate Themselves? (1890) Christianity and Patriotism (1894) The Christian Teaching (1895) Patriotism and Government (1900) The Slavery of Our Times (1900) Need it Be So? (1900) The Only Means (1901) What Is Religion and What is its Essence? (1902) Appeal to the Working People (1902) Appeal to the Clergy (1902) Bethink Yourselves! (1904) A Great Iniquity (1905) The End of the Age (1905) The Meaning of the Russian Revolution (1907) (1908) The Inevitable Revolution (1909)
Articles
Articles written for Tolstoy's Yasnaya Polyana journal on education (1861–1862) "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" (1874) "On the Moscow Census" (1882) "Church and State" (1882) "What is the Truth in Art?" (Introduction to a collection of stories, 1886) "What a Christian May Do" (1887) "The Holiday of Enlightenment of the 12th of January" (1889) "Afterward to Kreutzer Sonata" (1890) "On the Relation between the Sexes" (1890) Articles on the Famine "The Terrible Question" (1891) "On the Methods of Aiding the People Who Have Suffered from the Failure of Crops" (1891) "Among the Suffering (Report up to April 12, 1892)" (1892) "Account of the Money Contributed from April 12 to July 27, 1892" (1892) "Conclusion to Last Report on the Aid to the Starving" (1893) "Non-Activity" (1893) "The Persecution of Christians in Russia" (1895)
"God or Mammon?" (1895) "Shame!" (1895) Meaningless aspirations [Бессмысленные мечтания] (1895) "How to Read the Gospel and What is its Essence?" (1896) "The Beginning of the End" (1897) "Nobel's Bequest" (1897) "Famine or No Famine?" (1898) "Carthago Delenda Est" (1898) "Two Wars" (1898) "Where is the Way Out?: On the Condition of the Laboring Classes" (1900) "Thou Shalt Not Kill" (1900) "On Suicide" (1900) "On the Street Riots" (1901) "Reply to the Holy Synod's Decree of Excommunication" (1901) "The Soldiers' Memento" (1901) "The Officers' Memento" (1901) "To the Tsar and His Associates" (1901) "On Religious Toleration" (1902) "The Crisis in Russia" (1905) "Do Not Kill" (1906) "Love Each Other" (1906) I cannot be silent (1908) "The Only Command" (1909) "Three Days in the Village" ("Три дня в деревне", 1910) "Singing In The Village" ("Песни на деревне", 1910) "A Talk With A Wayfarer" ("Разговор с прохожим", 1910)
Letters and correspondence