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While perhaps best known for his novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, the Russian author and religious thinker Leo Tolstoy was also a prolific author of short fiction. This Standard Ebooks production compiles all of Tolstoy’s short stories and novellas written from 1852 up to his death, arranged in order of their original publication.
The stories in this collection vary enormously in size and scope, from short, page-length fables composed for the education of schoolchildren, to full novellas like “Family Happiness.” Readers who are familiar with Tolstoy’s life and religious experiences—as detailed, for example, in his spiritual memoir A Confession—may be able to trace the events of Tolstoy’s life through the changing subjects of these stories. Some early stories, like “The Raid” and the “Sevastopol” sketches, draw from Tolstoy’s experiences in the Caucasian War and the Crimean War when he served in the Imperial Russian Army, while other early stories like “Recollections of a Scorer” and “Two Hussars” reflect Tolstoy’s personal struggle with gambling addiction.
Later stories in the collection, written during and after Tolstoy’s 1870s conversion to Christian anarcho-pacifism (a spiritual and religious philosophy described in detail in his treatise The Kingdom of God is Within You), frequently reflect either Tolstoy’s own experiences in spiritual struggle (e.g. “The Death of Ivan Ilyitch”) or his interpretation of the New Testament (e.g. “The Forged Coupon”), or both. Many later stories, like “Three Questions” and “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” are explicitly didactic in nature and are addressed to a popular audience to promote his religious ideals and views on social and economic justice.
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By Leo Tolstoy.
Translated by Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, Nathan Haskell Dole, Constance Garnett, J. D. Duff, Leo Weiner, R. S. Townsend, Hagberg Wright, Benjamin Tucker, Everyman’s Library, Vladimir Chertkov, and Isabella Fyvie Mayo.
Table of Contents Titlepage Imprint The Raid I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII The Wood-Felling I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII Recollections of a Scorer Sevastopol In December 1854 In May 1855 I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI In August 1855 I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX XX XXI XXII XXIII XXIV XXV XVI Meeting a Moscow Acquaintance in the Detachment The Snowstorm I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI A Russian Proprietor I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX XX Lucerne Albert I II III IV V VI VII Two Hussars I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI Three Deaths I II III IV Family Happiness Part I I II III IV V Part II I II III IV Polikoúshka I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV The Porcelain Doll The Decembrists First Fragment I II III Second Fragment Third Fragment Adaptations and Imitations of Hindu Fables The Snake’s Head and Tail Fine Thread The Partition of the Inheritance The Monkey The Monkey and the Peas The Milch Cow The Duck and the Moon The Wolf in the Dust The Mouse Under the Granary The Best Pears The Falcon and the Cock The Jackals and the Elephant The Heron, the Fishes, and the Crab The Water-Sprite and the Pearl The Blind Man and the Milk The Wolf and the Bow The Birds in the Net The King and the Falcon The King and the Elephants Why There Is Evil in the World The Wolf and the Hunters The Two Peasants The Peasant and the Horse The Two Horses The Axe and the Saw The Dogs and the Cook The Hare and the Harrier The Oak and the Hazelbush The Hen and the Chicks The Corncrake and His Mate The Cow and the Billy Goat The Fox’s Tail From the New Speller I: The Wolf and the Kids II: The Farmer’s Wife and the Cat III: The Crow and the Eagle IV: The Mouse and the Frog V: The Vainglorious Cockerel VI: The Ass and the Lion VII: The Fool and His Knife VIII: The Boy Driver IX: Life Dull Without Song X: The Squirrel and the Wolf XI: Uncle Mitya’s Horse XII: The Book XIII: The Wolf and the Fox XIV: The Peasant and His Horse XV: The Eagle and the Sow XVI: The Load XVII: The Big Oven The Great Bear The Foundling The Peasant and the Cucumbers The Fire The Old Horse How I Learned to Ride The Willow Búlka Búlka and the Wild Boar Pheasants Milton and Búlka The Turtle Búlka and the Wolf What Happened to Búlka in Pyatigórsk Búlka’s and Milton’s End The Gray Hare Ermák Natural Science Stories Stories from Physics The Magnet I II III Injurious Air Galvanism The Sun’s Heat Stories from Zoology The Owl and the Hare How the Wolves Teach Their Whelps Hares and Wolves The Scent The Silkworm Stories from Botany The Apple-Tree The Old Poplar The Bird-Cherry How Trees Walk A Prisoner in the Caucasus I II III IV V VI God Sees the Truth, but Waits The Bear-Hunt What Men Live By I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII Memoirs of a Lunatic A Spark Neglected Burns the House Two Old Men I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII Where Love Is, God Is The Story of Iván the Fool I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII Evil Allures, but Good Endures Little Girls Wiser Than Men Ilyás Croesus and Solon The Three Hermits The Imp and the Crust How Much Land Does a Man Need? I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX A Grain as Big as a Hen’s Egg The Godson I II III IV V VI
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