Books by Leo Tolstoy

• The Three Hermits

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  “The Three Hermits” is a story by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, written in 1885 and first published in 1886 in the weekly Niva.

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• Father Sergius

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  “Father Sergius” is a novella written by Leo Tolstoy in 1890-1898 and published in 1911.

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• The Sevastopol Stories

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  “The Sevastopol Stories” is a cycle of three short stories written by Leo Tolstoy and published in 1855. The stories describe the defence of Sevastopol. Tolstoy writes about both the heroism of the city’s defenders and the inhuman senselessness of the war.

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• What is Art?

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  “What is Art?” – Leo Tolstoy’s essay in which he argues against numerous aesthetic theories that define art in terms of the theory of correlation, truth, and especially beauty.

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• Family Happiness

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  “Family Happiness” is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published in the Russian Gazette in 1859, Nos. 7, 8. Work on the novel began in the spring or autumn of 1858. At the beginning of March 1859 a first version was ready. A month later it was revised into a second edition.

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• Kreutzer Sonata

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  “Kreutzer Sonata” is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1890 and immediately censored by the Tsarist authorities. The book proclaims the ideal of abstinence and describes in first person the rage of jealousy.

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• The Confession

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  “The Confession” is Leo Tolstoy’s autobiographical work, written in the late 1870s and early 1880s and first published in 1884 in Geneva.

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• The Death of Ivan Ilyich

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  “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, which he worked on from 1882 to 1886, putting the finishing touches on while he was proofreading. It tells of the painful death of a middle-ranking judicial official.

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• The Cossacks

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  The Cossacks is a story by Leo Tolstoy published in 1863 about the stay of a cadet in the village of the Grebensky Cossacks.

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• Hadji Murad

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  “Hadji Murad” is a story by Leo Tolstoy. The protagonist of the story is a real historical person, Hadji Murad, Naib Shamil, who in 1851 went over to the side of the Russians, and the following year died while trying to escape to the mountains.

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