Leo Tolstoy Selected Stories: Gilded Pocket Edition

by Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude (Translator), Louise Maude (Translator)

This elegant hardback edition brings together ' 20 classic short stories by Leo Tolstoy, featuring silver cover embossing and gilded page edges.

One of the most accomplished authors in history, Tolstoy has inspired and influenced generations of readers. While celebrated for his famously long novel, War and Peace, Tolstoy is also a master of the short story, as demonstrated by the 20 commanding tales in this collection. Inside you will find 'The Death of Ivan Ilych', 'Three Questions'', 'How Much Land Does a Man Need?' and many more of Tolstoy's finest tales, each demonstrating the raw power and emotion of his narrative genius.

This gilded pocket-sized gift edition has real collector's appeal, featuring a facsimile of Tolstoy's signature on the title page, silver gilded page edges and beautifully designed endpapers. Part of the Arcturus Ornate Classics series this book makes wonderful gift or collectible for any lover of classic literature.

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304 pages, Hardcover

Published August 4, 2026

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