Collected Works of Leo Tolstoi

by Leo Tolstoy

The works of Tolstoy in one giant collection with an active table of contents.

Anna Karenina
The Awakening
Bethink Yourselves
Boyhood
The Cause of it All
Childhood
A Confession
The Cossacks
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Family Happiness
Father Sergius
The First Distiller
The Forged Coupon
Fruits of Culture
Kingdom of God is Within You
A Letter to a Hindu
The Light Shines in Darkness
The Live Corpse
Master and Man
On the Significance of Science and Art
The Power of Darkness
Redemption and Two Other Plays
Resurrection
Thoughts Evoked By the Census of Moscow
Tolstoy on Shakespeare
War and Peace
What Men Live By
What to Do?
Youth

Genres: Classics, Fiction, Russia, Literature

728 pages

First published January 1, 1928

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.

Reviews

[Rob Boone · Rating 5 out of 5]

One can never go wrong with Tolstoy.

[Rosa Ramôa · Rating 4 out of 5]

“If you want to be happy, be.”
(Leon Tolstoi)

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

July 17, 2011 Master and Man

My first foray into Tolstoy and far from dampening any enthusiasm, this just whets the appetite. With various individual versions ranging from around 50 pages to just over 100 pages, it should be thought of more as a novella rather than a short story. In fact, it is broken down into short chapters, which means that even if you didn't have time to read it in one sitting, finding a natural break is quite easy.

The descriptions of a small rural village are well drawn. The time of the story is winter, a cold you will be able to feel even if you've always lived in warm climes. The minor characters are mere caricatures, and, while I might wish for better depth of the two main characters, there is enough to know them. The story is too short for more. There is a moral to the story which is easily understood.

[Amy Cooper · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some of the short stories are standouts that hearken to the works of art that are his full books; others are duds. The shorts in general give an impression of a more moralistically puritanical and unhappy Tolstoy than Anna Karenina and War and Peace give, which, despite the sadness in them, also seem to be more tender towards the human condition than this collection was. I particularly didn't care about the biblical parables at the beginning. Though there was an occasional piece I liked (The Chinese Pilot was really solid), the rest were trite sermons.
Regardless, I'm glad I read it. Tolstoy, even if I don't prefer some of these stories, still has a gift with words, and an insight into the inner world of people's minds that never fails to captivate.

[Anna Farrés · Rating 4 out of 5]

No és aquest llibre ben bé el que vaig llegir, però a falta de trobar els títols decideixo llistar-los aquí:

- Lo malo atrae, pero lo bueno perdura
- De lo que vive el hombre
- El origen del mal
- Las tres preguntas

Són tot contes curts amb lliçons morals basades en l'amor a l'altre i la fe en Déu.

[Floyd Jr. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thought provoking and interesting, though often very strange. It makes me want to tackle War and Peace.

[Owen · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favorite book! Read so often in the last ten years the spine is duct-taped. I've never found a more complete compilation of Tolstoy's "folk tales" to replace it with. It was the best $3 I have ever spent!

[Bryan Mcquirk · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent collection of Tolstoi. I loved the short stories most of all. A great place to start for people who want to start reading the works of this amazing author. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

[Dan Pak · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too religiously optimistic