Collected Shorter Fiction of Leo Tolstoy, Volume I Introduction by John Bayley

by Tolstoy, Leo; Maude, Alymer; Maude, Louise; Cooper, Nigel; Bayley, John

• ISBN13: 9780375411724
• ISBN10: 0375411720
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-07
• Publisher: Everyman's Library

Summary

Written over a period of more than half a century, these stories reflect every aspect of Tolstoy's art and personality. They cover his experiences as a soldier in the Caucasus, his married life, his passionate interest in the peasantry, his cult of truth adn simplicity, and, above all, his growing preoccupation with religion. Ranging in scope from novellas like The Kreutzer Sonata and Hadji Murad to folk-tales only a few pages long, they provide a marvelous opportunity to become closely acquainted with Russia's great novelist. Aylmer and Louise Maude's classic translations are supplemented by new translations by Nigel J. Cooper of six stories, including two that have never before appeared in English.

Author Biography

Count Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) was born in central Russia. After serving in the Crimean War, he retired to his estate and devoted himself to writing, farming, and raising his large family. His novels and outspoken social polemics brought him world fame.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Select Bibliography	xxiii
Chronology	xxvi
The Raid (1852)	1	(34)
The Wood-Felling (1855)	35	(170)
Sevastopol:
Sevastopol in December 1854 (1855)	81	(16)
Sevastopol in May 1855 (1855)	97	(41)
Sevastopol in August 1855 (1856)	138	(67)
A Billiard-Marker's Notes (1855)	205	(22)
The Snow Storm (1856)	227	(34)
Two Hussars (1856)	261	(68)
A Landlord's Morning (1856)	329	(58)
Meeting a Moscow Acquaintance in the Detachment (1856)	387	(30)
Lucerne (1857)	417	(28)
Albert (1858)	445	(32)
Family Happiness (1859)	477	(88)
Three Deaths (1859)	565	(18)
Strider: The Story of a Horse (1861-86)	583	(44)
The Porcelain Doll (1863)	627	(8)
Polikushka (1863)	635	(120)
Tales for Children (c. 1872)
God Sees the Truth, but Waits	701	(12)
A Prisoner in the Caucasus	713	(30)
The Bear-Hunt	743	(12)
What Men Live By (1881)	755	(24)
Memoirs of a Madman (1884)	779
A Spark Neglected Burns the House (1885)	1	(20)
Two Old Men (1885)	21	(26)
Where Love is, God is (1885)	47	(16)
The Story of Ivan the Fool (1885)	63	(46)
Stories Written to Pictures (1885)
Evil Allures, but Good Endures	97	(3)
Little Girls Wiser than Men	100	(3)
Ilyas	103	(6)
The Death of Ivan Llych (1886)	109	(64)
The Three Hermits (1886)	173	(10)
The Imp and the Crust (1886)	183	(6)
How Much Land Does a Man Need? (1886)	189	(20)
A Grain as Big as a Hen's Egg (1886)	209	(6)
The Godson (1886)	215	(20)
The Repentant Sinner (1886)	235	(6)
The Kreutzer Sonata (1889)	241	(100)
Appendix to The Kreutzer Sonata	325	(16)
The Devil (1890)	341	(54)
Father Sergius (1890-98)	395	(50)
The Empty Drum (1891)	445	(12)
Francoise (1892)	457	(10)
A Talk Among Leisured People (1893)	467	(8)
Walk in the Light While There is Light (1893)	475	(56)
The Coffee-House of Surat (1893)	531	(10)
Master and Man (1895)	541	(56)
Too Dear! (1897)	597	(8)
Hadji Murad (1896-1904)	605	(152)
Stories Given to Aid the Persecuted Jews:
Esarhaddon, King of Assyria (1903)	741	(7)
Work, Death and Sickness (1903)	748	(3)
Three Questions (1903)	751	(6)
Fedor Kuzmich (1905)	757	(26)
Appendix 1: Two Early Stories
Preface	783	(4)
A History of Yesterday (1851)	787	(28)
A Christmas Night (1853)	815	(38)
Appendix 2: Four Late Stories
Preface	853	(6)
After the Ball (1903)	859	(14)
The Forged Coupon (1904)	873	(84)
Alyosha Gorshok (1905)	957	(10)
What For? (1906)	967