PLEASE NOTE: Several reviews for another publisher's eBook have been linked to this file in error. Please ignore the reviews. This file is the COMPLETE fictional works in English. Including: * ALL 12 novels with professional formatting * Plus the RARE unfinished novel 'The Decembrists' which Tolstoy intended to be a sequel to the great 'War and Peace' * Plus the other rare unfinished novel 'Morning of a Landed Proprietor' * Brief but informative introductions to all of the novels * Attractive images relating to Tolstoy's life and works throughout the eBook * ALL the short stories that have been translated into English * features a bonus selection of non-fiction texts, including Tolstoy's Journal * ALL of the plays * special Main Character pages for 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina' to aid reading these large novels * improved translations of the short stories, in response to a customer review * includes contents tables for each novel and play, allowing easy navigation around the massive file * UPDATED with a special literary criticism section, with 9 different essays examining Tolstoy's contribution to literature, with works by writers such as Virginia Woolf and William Lyon Phelps * UPDATED with BONUS texts of two biographies on Tolstoy, by his wife and son * UPDATED with the rare play LIVE CORPSE, unpublished in Tolstoy's lifetime Believed by many to be the greatest novelist the world has known, the Russian Master's work is of paramount importance. This definitive Edition of Tolstoy's oeuvre has every translated novel, short story, novella and play written by Leo Tolstoy. One of our most popular eBooks - now you can own the great Master of Realist fiction. There is also a front no-nonsense contents table, allowing easy navigation around the enormous file. As with all Delphi Classics, the texts are arranged in chronological order, allowing a scholarly reading and appreciation of Tolstoy's works. Please note: an absolute 'complete works' of Tolstoy is not possible in English due to copyright restrictions on various translations and some texts not being translated into English yet. However, this eBook strives to give customers the most texts possible and contains all of the MAJOR works. As a bonus, a selection of non-fiction texts are available too. Contents The Novels and Novellas CHILDHOOD BOYHOOD YOUTH FAMILY HAPPINESS THE COSSACKS WAR AND PEACE ANNA KARENINA THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYCH THE KREUTZER SONATA. RESURRECTION THE FORGED COUPON HADJI MURAD The Unfinished Novels THE DECEMBRISTS A MORNING OF A LANDED PROPRIETOR The Short Stories LIST OF STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Plays THE POWER OF DARKNESS THE FRUITS OF CULTURE REDEMPTION THE CAUSE OF IT ALL THE FIRST DISTILLER THE LIGHT SHINES IN DARKNESS LIVE CORPSE Selected Non-Fiction A CONFESSION KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU WHAT THEN MUST WE DO? ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SCIENCE AND ART BETHINK YOURSELVES! MOSCOW CENSUS TOLSTOY ON SHAKESPEARE TOLSTOY’S JOURNAL The Criticism TOLSTOY THE ARTIST by Ivan Panin TOLSTOY THE PREACHER by Ivan Panin Extract from ‘MY LITERARY PASSIONS’ by William Dean Howells Extract from ‘ESSAYS ON RUSSIAN NOVELISTS’ by William Lyon Phelps RUSSIAN ROMANCE by Earl of Evelyn Baring Cromer Extracts from ‘A SURVEY OF RUSSIAN
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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.
