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A portrait of Leo Tolstoy. From telegraph.co.uk |
I love Tolstoy’s writing, and I’d like to read -and enjoy – all of his work. He’s written an incredible amount, and so I’ll currently limit this challenge to his major works for now. I’ll record my progress below, and provide links to any relevant posts I’ve written.
Tolstoy’s Major Works to Read:
- Childhood (1852)
- Boyhood (1854)
- Youth (1856)
- Family Happiness (1859)
- The Cossacks (1863) – in progress
- War and Peace (1869)
- Anna Karenina (1877)
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886)
- The Kreutzer Sonata (1889)
- Resurrection (1899)
- Hadji Murat (1912)
Added to the list in 2014:
- What is Art? – in progress
- A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul
- How Much Land Does a Man Need?
- The Sebastopol Sketches (1855)
Other Tolstoy texts read (e.g. philosophical works, plays, short stories):
- The Forged Coupon (1911)
- The Raid (1852)
- The Wood-Felling (1855)
- Three Deaths (1859)
- Polikushka (1863
- A Confession (1879)
- After the Ball (1903)
- Two Hussars
- God Sees the Truth But Waits
- The Three Hermits