Book excerpt: A master of realistic fiction, Leo Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest novelists. He is best known for his two longest works, ‘War and Peace’ and ‘Anna Karenina’, commonly regarded as among the finest novels ever written. During his later years, Tolstoy also achieved world renown as a moral and religious teacher. His doctrine of non-resistance to evil had an important influence on Gandhi. Some viewed him as the embodiment of nature and pure vitality, others saw him as the incarnation of the world’s conscience, while all regarded him as a living symbol of the search for life’s meaning. This eBook presents Tolstoy’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 4) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Tolstoy’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All the novels and novellas, with individual contents tables * Features rare stories appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Includes rare plays * Large selection of non-fiction works — spend hours exploring the author’s diverse works * Special criticism section, with 11 essays evaluating Tolstoy’s contribution to world literature * Features three biographies – discover Tolstoy’s literary life, including Maude’s seminal study * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres * UPDATED with new and revised texts, more rare short stories, novellas, non-fiction and biographies CONTENTS: The Novels War and Peace (1869) Anna Karenina (1877) Resurrection (1899) The Novellas Childhood (1852) Boyhood (1854) Youth (1856) Sevastopol Sketches (1856) A Russian Proprietor (1856) Two Hussars (1856) Family Happiness (1859) Polikushka (1862) The Cossacks (1863) The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) Katia (1888) The Kreutzer Sonata (1889) Walk in the Light While There is Light (1893) Master and Man (1895) The Devil (1911) The Forged Coupon (1911) Hadji Murat (1912) The Unfinished Novel The Decembrists (1884) The Short Stories The Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy The Plays The Power of Darkness (1886) The First Distiller (1886) The Light Shines in Darkness (1890) The Fruits of Culture (1891) Redemption (1891) The Live Corpse (1900) The Cause of It All (1910) The Non-Fiction A Confession (1880) Moscow Census (1882) My Religion (1884) What Shall We Do? (1886) On the Significance of Science and Art (1886) Church and State (1891) The Kingdom of God is within You (1893) Introductions to Books (1894) Christianity and Patriotism (1894) Reason and Religion (1895) Patriotism or Peace (1896) Letter to Ernest Howard Crosby (1896) Journal (1895-1899) The Slavery of Our Times (1900) Thou Shalt Not Kill (1900) What is Art? (1904) Bethink Yourselves! (1904) Tolstoy on Shakespeare (1906) A Letter to a Hindu (1908) The Criticism Leo Tolstoï (1887) by W. D. Howells Tolstoy the Artist (1889) by Ivan Panin Tolstoy the Preacher (1889) by Ivan Panin Extract from ‘My Literary Passions’ (1895) by W. D. Howells Extracts from ‘A Survey of Russian Literature’ (1902) by Isabel Florence Hapgood Tolstoy and the Cult of Simplicity (1902) by G. K. Chesterton Extract from ‘Essays on Russian Novelists’ (1911) by William Lyon Phelps The Russian Point of View (1912) by Virginia Woolf Russian Romance (1913) by Earl of Evelyn Baring Cromer Extract from ‘An Outline of Russian Literature’ (1914) by Maurice Baring Extract from ‘Prophets of Dissent’ (1918) by Otto Heller The Biographies The Life of Tolstoy: First Fifty Years (1908) by Aylmer Maude Tolstoy (1911) by Romain Rolland Reminiscences of Tolstoy (1914) by Count Ilya Tolstoy