Leo Tolstoy or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer widely regarded as among the greatest of novelists. His masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina represent in their scope, breadth and vivid depiction of 19th-century Russian life and attitudes, the peak of realist fiction.
Tolstoy's further talents as essayist, dramatist, and educational reformer made him the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His 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 twentieth-century figures as Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Novels and Novellas
* Childhood (1852)
* Boyhood (1854)
* Youth (1856)
* Family Happiness (1859)
* The Cossacks (1863)
* War and Peace (1865–69)
* Anna Karenina (1875–77)
* The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886)
* "The Kreutzer Sonata" (1889)
* Resurrection (1899)
* The Forged Coupon (1902-1904, published 1911)
* Hadji Murat (written in 1896-1904, published 1912)
Short stories
* "The Raid" (1852)
* "Sebastopol Sketches" (1855–56)
* "Albert" (1858)
* "Ivan the Fool: A Lost Opportunity" (1863)
* "Polikushka" (1863)
* "A Prisoner in the Caucasus" (1872)
* "God Sees the Truth, But Waits" (1872)
* "Father Sergius" (1873)
* "Kholstomer: The Story of a Horse" (1864, 1886)
* "What Men Live By" (1885)
* "The Three Questions" (1885)
* "Wisdom of Children" (1885)
* "Where Love is, God is" (1885)
* "Quench the Spark" (1885)
* "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" (1886)
* "Promoting a Devil" (1886)
* "Repentance" (1886)
* "The Grain" (1886)
* "Master and Man and other stories" (1893)
* "Too Dear!" (1897)
* "Work, Death, and Sickness" (1903)
* "Alyosha the Pot" (1905)
* "Three Deaths" (1859)
* "Two Hussars" (1856)
* "Strawberries" (1906)
* "Korney Vasilyev" (1906)
* "Croesus and Fate"
Plays
* The Power of Darkness (1886), drama
* The Fruits of Culture (play) (1889)
* The Living Corpse (published 1911), drama
Philosophical works
* A Confession (1882)
* What I Believe (also called My Religion) (1884)
* The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894)
* The Gospel in Brief (1896)
* What Is Art? (1897)
* Letter to the Liberals (1898)
* A Calendar of Wisdom (1910)
Pedagogical works
* Articles from Tolstoy's journal on education, "Yasnaya Polyana" (1861-1862)
