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Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a renowned Russian writer, celebrated primarily for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina. His literary contributions are categorized within the realist fiction genre, reflecting the experiences of life in his own environment. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in history. Tolstoy's journey as a published author began in 1852 with the autobiographical novel Childhood and the short story The Raid. Below is a chronological list of Leo Tolstoy’s novels based on their original publication dates:

Leo Tolstoy became a published novelist in 1391 with the novel What Then Must We Do?. Below is a list of Leo Tolstoy's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Autobiographical Novels Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Childhood (1852) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Boyhood (1854) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Youth (1856) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
War and Peace (1867) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Anna Karenina (1877) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Resurrection (1899) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Decembrists (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Raid (1853) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Two Hussars (1856) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Albert (1858) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Family Happiness (1859) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Cossacks (1863) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
God Sees the Truth, but Waits (1872) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
A Prisoner in the Caucasus (1872) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Death of Ivan Ilych (1886) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Kholstomer (1886) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Kreutzer Sonata (1889) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Walk in the Light While There is Light (1893) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Master and Man (1895) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Devil (1911) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Father Sergius (1911) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Forged Coupon (1911) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Hadji Murat (1912) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Polikushka and Two Hussars (1955) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Divine and Human and Other Stories (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
A Lost Opportunity (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Long Exile and Other Stories (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
An Old Acquaintance (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Three Questions / The Emperor's Three Questions (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Diary of a Lunatic/Three Deaths (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Work, Death, and Sickness (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Leo Tolstoy Fables Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
What Men Live by and Other Tales (1885) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
How Much Land Does a Man Need? and Other Stories (1886) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Ivan the Fool (1886) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Candle (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Godson (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Wisdom of Children (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Two Old Men (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Esarhaddon, And Other Tales (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Where Love is There God is Also (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Standalone Plays Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Power of Darkness (1886) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Light That Shines in the Darkness (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Man Who Was Dead and the Cause of It All (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Living Corpse (2014) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Fruits of Enlightenment (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
What Then Must We Do? (1391) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
A Confession (1880) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Gospel in Brief (1883) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
What I Believe (1884) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
On Life and Essays on Religion (1887) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The First Step: on vegetarianism (1892) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1893) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Bethink Yourselves! (1904) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
A Calendar of Wisdom (1906) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Tolstoy on Shakespeare (1906) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
A Letter to a Hindu (1908) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Law of Love and the Law of Violence (1909) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Slavery of Our Times (1972) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Guy De Maupassant (1974) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Why Do Men Stupefy Themselves? (1975) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Christianity and Patriotism (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
What Is to Be Done? and Life (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Church and State and Other Essays (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Christian Teaching (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Four Gospels Harmonized and Translated by Leo Tolstoy (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Religion and Morality (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Diaries Of Leo Tolstoy (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
What is Art? (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Short Story Collections Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Sebastopol Sketches (1855) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Twenty-three Tales (With: Louise Maude,Aylmer Maude,Lev Tolstoy) (1907) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Short Novels (1979) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Leo Tolstoy's 20 Greatest Short Stories (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
War: An Anthology (1969) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Famous and Curious Animal Stories (1989) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Horse & Pony Stories (1992) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question (1992) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
50 Classic Novellas (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Selected Stories by Leo Tolstoy (2014) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Following the Call: Living the Sermon on the Mount Together (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Best Russian Short Stories (2022) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Great Russian Short Stories (2022) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Greatest Tales of Regency Romance (2023) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories (2023) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

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