The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy: THE KREUTZER SONATA and Other Stories

by Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude (Translator), Benj. R. Tucker (Translator)

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828–1910)

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer widely recognized as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his longest masterpieces “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina.”

This book includes 10 short
"God Sees the Truth, But Waits", Translated By Louise And Aylmer Maude, is a short story by Leo Tolstoy about forgiveness, first published in 1872. The plot is about a man unfairly accused of murder, who served many years in hard labor, but later forgave the real killer. It's one of the works that Tolstoy considered his best.
“The Kreutzer Sonata”, Translated By Benj. R. Tucker, is a short story by Leo Tolstoy published in 1890 and immediately censored by the tsarist authorities. It's named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The book proclaims the ideal of sexual obstinance and describes in the first person the wrath of jealousy;
and other
“The Devil”
Translated By Aylmer Maude
“The Forged Coupon”
Translated By Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright
“The Death Of Ivan Ilich”
Translated By Louise And Aylmer Maude
“Alyosha The Pot”
Translated By Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright
“How Much Land Does A Man Need?”
Translated By Louise And Aylmer Maude
“Ivan The Fool”
Translated By Benj. R. Tucker
“Lucerne”
Translated By Nathan Haskell Dole
“Where Love Is There God Is Also”
Translated By Nathan Haskell Dole

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Published January 3, 2023

About the author

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.

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 anarcho-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 Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

See also:
French → Léon Tolstoï
Spanish → León Tolstói