• LEO •
TOLSTOY
COLLECTED
SHORTER
FICTION
(in two volumes)
Written over a period of more than half a century, these stories reflect every aspect of Tolstoy’s art and personality. They cover his experiences as a soldier in the Caucasus, his married life, his passionate interest in the peasantry, his cult of truth and simplicity, and, above all, his growing preoccupation with religion. Ranging in scope from novellas like
EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY
EVERYMAN,
I WILL GO WITH THEE,
AND BE THY GUIDE,
IN THY MOST NEED
TO GO BY THY SIDE
THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
First included in Everyman’s Library, 2001
Introduction, Bibliography and Chronology Copyright © 2001
by Everyman’s Library
Translations in the Appendix Copyright © 2001 by Nigel J. Cooper
Sixth printing (US)
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A CIP catalogue reference for this book is available from the
British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828–1910.
[Short stories. English. Selections]
The collected shorter fiction/Leo Tolstoy; translated by Aylmer Maude
and Nigel J. Cooper; with an introduction by John Bayley.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-81991-8
1. Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910—Translations into English.
I. Maude, Aylmer, 1858–1938. II. Cooper, Nigel J. III. Title.
PG3366.A13 M3 2001 00-053487
891.73’3—dc21
v3.1
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 2
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A Spark Neglected Burns the House (1885)
Two Old Men (1885)
Where Love is, God is (1885)
The Story of Iván the Fool (1885)
Stories Written to Pictures (1885)
Evil Allures, but Good Endures
Little Girls Wiser than Men
Ilyás
The Death of Iván Ilých (1886)
The Three Hermits (1886)
The Imp and the Crust (1886)
How Much Land Does a Man Need? (1886)
A Grain as Big as a Hen’s Egg (1886)
The Godson (1886)
The Repentant Sinner (1886)
The Kreutzer Sonata (1889)
Appendix to The Kreutzer Sonata
The Devil (1890)
Father Sergius (1890–98)
The Empty Drum (1891)
Françoise (1892)
A Talk Among Leisured People (1893)
Walk in the Light While There is Light (1893)
The Coffee-House of Surat (1893)
Master and Man (1895)
Too Dear! (1897)
Hadji Murád (1896–1904)
Stories Given to Aid the Persecuted Jews:
Esarhaddon, King of Assyria (1903)
Work, Death and Sickness (1903)
Three Questions (1903)
Fëdor Kuzmích (1905)
Preface
A History of Yesterday (1851)
A Christmas Night (1853)
Preface
After the Ball (1903)
The Forged Coupon (1904)
Alyosha Gorshok (1905)
What For? (1906)
John Bayley’s introduction and Tolstoy’s shorter fiction 1852–84 appear in Volume 1.
A SPARK NEGLECTED
BURNS THE HOUSE
