Short Stories and Novellas:
Tolstoi wrote many short stories and held varying beliefs about them throughout his life. The prolific writer published in mainly in the Russian Messenger.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Смерть Ивана Ильича [Smert’ Ivana Il’icha]; 1886)
One of the more famous stories, Tolstoi wrote it at the end of his life about the tragic death of a man who require honesty over basic needs for survival.
The Cossacks (Казаки [Kazaki]; 1863)
Another well known novella about a man who ends up traveling with the Cossacks across Russia
The Raid (1852)
Sevastopol Stories (Севастопольские рассказы [Sevastopolskie Rasskazy]; 1855–56)
Family Happiness (1859)
Ivan the Fool: A Lost Opportunity (1863)
Polikushka (1863)
A Prisoner in the Caucasus (Кавказский Пленник [Kavkazskii Plennik]; 1872)
Father Sergius (Отец Сергий [Otets Sergii]; 1873)
The Kreutzer Sonata and other stories (Крейцерова соната [Kreitserova Sonata]; 1889)
Master and Man and other stories (1895)
How Much Land Does a Man Need? (Много ли человеку земли нужно [Mnogo li cheloveku zemli nuzhno]; 1886)
Letter to the Liberals (1898)
Resurrection (Воскресение [Voskresenie]; 1899)
Hadji Murat (Хаджи-Мурат [Khadzhi-Murat]; written in 1896-1904, published 1912)
The law of love and the law of violence; published in 1940 complete text
Strider: The Story of a Horse (1864, 1886)
Longer “Novels”:
War and Peace (Война и мир [Voyna i mir]; 1865–69)
To Tolstoi War and Peace was an epic story in prose, not a novel. The 1000+ page book contains his manifesto on history and many other important themes. Like Anna Karenina, it follows two different families
Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина [Anna Karenina]; 1875–77)
Tolstoi Claimed that this was his first actual novel. Shorter, but more pointed than War and Peace Tolstoi put a lot of his beliefs into the actions and beliefs of Levin (See page).
Philosophic Works
Tolstoi mostly wrote short pamphlets about his views on religion and in support of Chrisitianity. By the end of his life, he was very influenced by:
A Confession (1882)
What Is Art? (1897)
What I Believe (also called My Religion) (1884) complete text
The Kingdom of God is Within You (available at wikisource) (1894)
A Calendar of Wisdom (1910)
The Gospel in Brief (1896)
Plays:
All are generally about peasants and were directed by various Russian directors right after they were written
.The Power of Darkness(Власть тьмы [Vlast’ t’my]; 1886), drama
Long banned in Russia due to the controversial nature of the play, in which a young peasant commits murder and impregnants his stepdaughter. However, like most Tolstoi works, it ends with him confessing to the police.
The Fruits of Culture (play) (1889)
The Living Corpse (Живой труп [Zhivoi trup]; published 1911), drama
Tolstoi’s most popular play which was put on at the Moscow Art Theater and came to the United States that same year. Jacob Adler preformed the play in Yiddish and was an instant success. It was first preformed in English under the name Redemptionin 1918 by Arthur Hopkins. While it garnished much success in the world community, Tolstoi died while writing it and never considered it finished.
Biographical Novels:
Later in life, Tolstoi condemned these as childish and optimistic, however they express his early life views on things like relations with peasants and his views on religion.
Childhood (Детство [Detstvo]; 1852)
Boyhood (Отрочество [Otrochestvo]; 1854)
Youth (Юность [Yunost’]; 1856)