Collected Shorter Fiction, Volume II

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

• ISBN13: 9780375412875
• ISBN10: 0375412875
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-07
• Publisher: Everyman's Library

Summary

The only comprehensive hardcover edition of Tolstoy's shorter fiction--57 stories and novellas, including two that have never before appeared in English. In these two handsome volumes, every aspect of Tolstoy's art and personality is reflected: his experiences as a soldier in the Caucasus, his married life, his passionate interest in the peasantry, his belief in truth and simplicity, and above all, his growing preoccupation with religion. Ranging in scope from the short novels Hadj Murad and The Kreutzer Sonata to folktales only a few pages long, they bring us intimately into the world of the great Russian novelist.

Author Biography

<br><b>John Bayley</b>, author of the Introduction to the collection, is former Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at Oxford University and the author of books on Tolstoy, Hardy, and Housman. He has also written several novels and a memoir, <i>Elegy for Iris</i>.<br><br>The translators:<br><br><b>Aylmer Maude</b> spent much of his life in Russia and was a personal friend of Tolstoy's.<br><br><b>Nigel J. Cooper</b> recently retired from Middlesex University, where he was a principal lecturer in modern languages (Russian and French).

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