Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world’s greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.
Books in order of publication:
Novels
The Autobiographical Trilogy
Childhood (Детство, 1852)
Boyhood (Отрочество, 1854)
Youth (Юность, 1856)
Cossacks (Казаки, 1852–1863)
War and Peace (Война и мир, 1864–1869, rev. 1873)
Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина, 1873–1877)
Resurrection (Воскресение, 1889–1899)
Hadji Murat (Хаджи-Мурат, 1896–1904)
Novellas
Two Hussars (Два гусара, 1856)
Family Happiness (Семейное счастье, 1859)
Polikúshka (Поликушка, 1860)
Death of Ivan Ilyich (Смерть Ивана Ильича, 1882–1886)
Walk in the Light While There is Light (Ходите в свете, пока есть свет, 1888)
Kreutzer Sonata (Крейцерова соната, 1887-1889)
Devil (Дьявол, 1889, pub. 1911)
Master and Man (Хозяин и работник, 1895)
Father Sergius (Отец Сергий, 1890–1898)
The Forged Coupon (Фальшивый купон, 1902–1904)
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