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Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (/ˈtoʊlstɔɪ, ˈtɒl-/; Russian: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й, pronounced [lʲɛf nʲɪkɐˈlaɪvʲɪtɕ tɐlˈstoj]; 9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828 – 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian novelist today regarded as one of the greatest of all time.

He is best known for War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). He first achieved literary acclaim in his 20s with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852–1856), and Sevastopol Sketches (1855), based upon his experiences in the Crimean War. Tolstoy's fiction includes dozens of short stories and several novellas such as The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Family Happiness, and Hadji Murad. He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays.

In the 1870s Tolstoy experienced a profound moral crisis, followed by what he regarded as an equally profound spiritual awakening. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His new-found asceticism and determination to renounce his considerable wealth tipped his marriage into bitter turmoil, which continued right up to his death at the age of 82 in the waiting room of an, until then, obscure Russian railway station.

Tolstoy's ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal 20th-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and James Bevel.

Here are some books written by Leo Tolstoy:

Excerpt from Wikipedia

Novels

  1. Childhood 
  2. Boyhood 
  3. Youth 
  4. The Cossacks 
  5. War and Peace
  6. Anna Karenina
  7. Resurrection

Novellas

  1. Family Happiness
  2. The Death of Ivan Ilyich
  3. The Kreutzer Sonata
  4. The Forged Coupon
  5. Hadji Murat

Short Stories

  1. The Raid
  2. The Wood-Felling
  3. Sevastopol Sketches
  4. A Billiard-Marker's Notes
  5. The Snowstorm
  6. Two Hussars
  7. A Landlord's Morning
  8. Meeting a Moscow Acquaintance in the Detachment
  9. Lucerne
  10. Albert
  11. Three Deaths
  12. The Porcelain Doll
  13. Polikúshka
  14. God Sees the Truth, But Waits
  15. The Prisoner in the Caucasus
  16. The Bear-Hunt
  17. What Men Live By
  18. Memoirs of a Madman
  19. Quench the Spark
  20. Two Old Men
  21. Where Love Is, God Is
  22. Ivan the Fool
  23. Evil Allures, But Good Endures
  24. Wisdom of Children
  25. Ilyás
  26. The Three Hermits
  27. Promoting a Devil
  28. How Much Land Does a Man Need?
  29. The Grain
  30. The Godson
  31. Repentance
  32. Croesus and Fate
  33. Kholstomer
  34. A Lost Opportunity
  35. The Empty Drum
  36. Françoise
  37. A Talk Among Leisured People
  38. Walk in the Light While There is Light
  39. The Coffee-House of Surrat
  40. Master and Man
  41. Too Dear!
  42. Father Sergius
  43. Esarhaddon, King of Assyria
  44. Work, Death, and Sickness
  45. Three Questions
  46. After the Ball
  47. Feodor Kuzmich
  48. Alyosha the Pot
  49. What For?
  50. The Devil

Plays

  1. The Power of Darkness
  2. The First Distiller
  3. The Light Shines in Darkness
  4. The Fruits of Enlightenment
  5. The Living Corpse
  6. The Cause of it All

Philosophical Works

  1. A Confession
  2. A Criticism of Dogmatic Theology
  3. The Gospel in Brief
  4. The Four Gospel Unified and Translated
  5. Church and State
  6. What I Believe
  7. What Is to Be Done?
  8. On Life
  9. The Love of God and of One's Neighbour
  10. Timothy Bondareff
  11. Why Do Men Intoxicate Themselves?
  12. The First Step: on vegetarianism
  13. The Kingdom of God Is Within You
  14. Non-Activity
  15. The Meaning of Refusal of Military Service
  16. Reason and Religion
  17. Religion and Morality
  18. Christianity and Patriotism
  19. Non-Resistance: letter to Ernest H. Crospy
  20. How to Read the Gospels
  21. The Deception of the Church
  22. Letter to the Liberals
  23. Christian Teaching
  24. On Suicide
  25. The Slavery of Our Times
  26. Thou Shalt Not Kill
  27. Reply to the Holy Synod
  28. The Only Way
  29. On Religious Toleration
  30. What Is Religion and What is its Essence?
  31. To the Orthodox Clergy
  32. Thoughts of Wise Men
  33. The Only Need
  34. The Grate Sin
  35. A Cycle of Reading
  36. Do Not Kill
  37. Love Each Other
  38. An Appeal to Youth
  39. The Law of Love and the Law of Violence
  40. The Only Command
  41. A Calendar of Wisdom

Works on Art and Literature

  1. What Is Art?
  2. Art and Not Art
  3. Shakespeare and the Drama

Pedagogical Works

  1. Articles from Tolstoy's journal on education, "Yasnaya Polyana"
  2. A Primer
  3. On Popular Instruction
  4. A New Primer

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