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• War and Peace · 1869
• Anna Karenina · 1877
• Resurrection · 1899
• Childhood · 1852
• Boyhood · 1854
• Youth · 1857
• The Cossacks · 1863
• Family Happiness · 1859
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich · 1886
• The Kreutzer Sonata · 1889
• Hadji Murat · 1904
• Father Sergius · 1898
• Master and Man · 1895
• The Devil · 1889
• The Forged Coupon · 1904
• Polikushka · 1863
• A Landowner's Morning · 1856
• Two Hussars · 1856
• Albert · 1858
• Kholstomer (Strider) · 1886
• Notes of a Madman · 1884
• Posthumous Notes of the Elder Fyodor Kuzmich · 1905
• A History of Yesterday · 1851
• The Raid · 1853
• A Christmas Night · 1853
• Uncle Zhdanov and Cavalier Chernov · 1854
• How Russian Soldiers Die (The Alarm) · 1854
• Notes of a Billiard Marker · 1855
• The Wood-Felling · 1855
• Sevastopol Sketches · 1856
• Sevastopol in December · 1855
• Sevastopol in May · 1855
• Sevastopol in August 1855 · 1856
• The Snowstorm · 1856
• The Demoted Officer (An Old Acquaintance) · 1856
• Lucerne · 1857
• Three Deaths · 1859
• Fragments of Stories from Village Life · 1862
• Idyll · 1862
• Tikhon and Malanya · 1862
• The Decembrists · 1884
• Novel of the Time of Peter I · 1873
• Prince Fyodor Shchetinin · 1878
• A Hundred Years · 1879
• The Toiling and Burdened · 1879
• The Mother · 1891
• Who Is Right? · 1893
• The Porcelain Doll · 1863
• What Men Live By · 1881
• The Two Brothers and the Gold · 1885
• Ilyas · 1885
• Where Love Is, God Is · 1885
• Evil Allures, but Good Endures · 1885
• Little Girls Wiser than Old Men · 1885
• A Spark Neglected Burns the House · 1885
• Two Old Men · 1885
• The Candle · 1885
• The Tale of Ivan the Fool · 1885
• The Three Hermits · 1886
• How the Little Devil Redeemed the Crust · 1886
• The Repentant Sinner · 1886
• A Grain as Big as a Hen's Egg · 1886
• How Much Land Does a Man Need? · 1886
• The Godson · 1886
• Emelyan and the Empty Drum · 1886
• The Three Sons · 1887
• Ending of the Little Russian Legend «Forty Years» · 1886
• Croesus and Fate · 1886
• The Coffee-House of Surat · 1887
• Too Dear! · 1890
• Françoise · 1891
• Karma · 1894
• The Young Tsar · 1894
• Three Parables · 1895
• Two Different Versions of the History of a Beehive with a Bark Lid · 1900
• The Destruction of Hell and Its Restoration · 1902
• Esarhaddon, King of Assyria · 1903
• Work, Death and Sickness · 1903
• Three Questions · 1903
• After the Ball · 1903
• Alyosha the Pot · 1905
• Korney Vasiliev · 1905
• Berries · 1905
• Divine and Human · 1905
• For What? · 1906
• What I Saw in a Dream · 1906
• Poor People · 1905
• Father Vasily · 1906
• The Power of Childhood · 1908
• The Wolf · 1908
• Children's Wisdom · 1909
• A Talk with a Wayfarer · 1909
• The Traveller and the Peasant · 1909
• Songs in the Village · 1909
• Three Days in the Village · 1909
• Khodynka · 1910
• Unintentionally · 1910
• Grateful Soil · 1910
• There Are No Guilty People · 1909
• The Three Bears · 1875
• How Uncle Semyon Told What Happened to Him in the Forest · 1875
• The Cow · 1875
• Filipok · 1875
• The Ant and the Dove · 1872
• The Blind Man and the Deaf Man · 1872
• The Tortoise and the Eagle · 1872
• The Foundling · 1872
• The Head and the Tail of the Snake · 1872
• The Stone · 1872
• The Eskimos · 1872
• The Polecat · 1872
• How Auntie Told How She Learned to Sew · 1872
• Fine Thread · 1872
• Speed Makes Power · 1872
• The Lion and the Mouse · 1872
• The Fire Dogs · 1872
• The Monkey · 1872
• How a Boy Told How He Was Not Taken to Town · 1872
• The Liar · 1872
• How a House Was Repaired in Paris · 1872
• The Ass and the Horse · 1872
• How a Boy Told How a Thunderstorm Caught Him in the Forest · 1872
• The Jackdaw and the Doves · 1872
• The Peasant and the Cucumbers · 1872
• The Woman and the Hen · 1872
• The Old Grandfather and the Grandson · 1872
• Dividing the Inheritance · 1872
• Where Does the Sea Water Go? · 1872
• The Lion, the Bear and the Fox · 1872
• How a Boy Told How He Found Queen Bees for His Grandfather · 1872
• The Dog, the Cock and the Fox · 1872
• The Sea · 1872
• The Horse and the Groom · 1872
• The Fire · 1872
• The Frog and the Lion · 1872
• The Elephant · 1872
• The Monkey and the Peas · 1872
• How a Boy Told How He Stopped Fearing Blind Beggars · 1872
• The Milch Cow · 1872
• The Chinese Empress Si Ling-chi · 1872
• The Dragonfly and the Ants · 1872
• The Mouse Maiden · 1872
• The Hen and the Golden Eggs · 1872
• Lipunyushka · 1872
• The Wolf and the Old Woman · 1872
• The Kitten · 1872
• The Learned Son · 1872
• How the Bukharans Learned to Breed Silkworms · 1872
• The Peasant and the Horse · 1872
• How Auntie Told Grandmother How the Bandit Yemelka Pugachev Gave Her Ten Kopecks · 1872
• The Vizier Abdul · 1872
• How the Thief Gave Himself Away · 1872
• The Burden · 1872
• The Plum Stone · 1872
• The Two Merchants · 1872
• The Dog of the St Gotthard · 1872
• A Peasant's Story of Why He Loves His Elder Brother · 1872
• How I Killed My First Hare · 1872
• Tom Thumb · 1872
• The Fool (A Tale in Verse) · 1872
• Svyatogor the Bogatyr · 1872
• The Girl and the Mushrooms · 1872
• The Ass in the Lion's Skin · 1872
• What Dew on the Grass Is Like · 1872
• The Hen and the Swallow · 1872
• The Indian and the Englishwomen · 1872
• The Stag and the Fawn · 1872
• The Waistcoat · 1872
• The Fox and the Grapes · 1872
• Luck · 1872
• The Maidservants and the Cock · 1872
• The Self-Spinning Wheel · 1872
• The Fisherman and the Little Fish · 1872
• Touch and Sight · 1872
• The Fox and the Goat · 1872
• How a Peasant Removed a Stone · 1872
• The Dog and Its Shadow · 1872
• The Shat and the Don · 1872
• The Crane and the Stork · 1872
• Sudoma · 1872
• The Gardener and His Sons · 1872
• The Owl and the Hare · 1872
• The Wolf and the Crane · 1872
• The Eagle · 1872
• The Duck and the Moon · 1872
• The Bear on the Cart · 1872
• The Wolf in the Dust · 1872
• The Willow · 1872
• The Mouse under the Barn · 1872
• How Wolves Teach Their Young · 1872
• The Hares and the Frogs · 1872
• How Auntie Told of Her Tame Sparrow, Zhivchik · 1872
• Three Rolls and One Pretzel · 1872
• A Thousand Gold Pieces · 1872
• Peter I and the Peasant · 1872
• The Mad Dog · 1872
• The Two Horses · 1872
• The Lion and the Little Dog · 1872
• An Equal Inheritance · 1872
• The Three Thieves · 1872
• The Father and His Sons · 1872
• What Causes Wind? · 1872
• What Is Wind For? · 1872
• The Best Pears · 1872
• The Volga and the Vazuza · 1872
• The Calf on the Ice · 1872
• The Golden-Haired Princess · 1872
• The Falcon and the Cock · 1872
• Warmth (I) · 1872
• Warmth (II) · 1872
• Warmth (III) · 1872
• The Jackals and the Elephant · 1872
• The Magnet · 1872
• The Heron, the Fish and the Crab · 1872
• How Uncle Told How He Rode on Horseback · 1872
• The Hedgehog and the Hare · 1872
• The Two Brothers · 1872
• The Water Sprite and the Pearl · 1872
• The Grass Snake · 1872
• The Sparrow and the Swallows · 1872
• Cambyses and Psammenitus · 1872
• The Shark · 1872
• Why Do Windows Sweat and Dew Form? · 1872
• The Bishop and the Robber · 1872
• Yermak · 1872
• Sukhman · 1872
• The King and the Falcon · 1872
• The Fox · 1872
• A Severe Punishment · 1872
• The Wild Ass and the Tame Ass · 1872
• The Hare and the Hound · 1872
• The Stag · 1872
• Hares · 1872
• The Dog and the Wolf · 1872
• The King's Brothers · 1872
• The Blind Man and the Milk · 1872
• The Grey Hare · 1872
• The Wolf and the Bow · 1872
• How a Peasant Divided the Geese · 1872
• The Gnat and the Lion · 1872
• The Apple Trees · 1872
• The Horse and Its Masters · 1872
• The Bedbugs · 1872
• The Old Man and Death · 1872
• How the Geese Saved Rome · 1872
• Why Do Trees Crack in Frost? · 1872
• Moisture (I) · 1872
• Moisture (II) · 1872
• The Different Connection of Particles · 1872
• The Lion and the Fox · 1872
• The Righteous Judge · 1872
• The Stag and the Vineyard · 1872
• The King's Son and His Companions · 1872
• The Young Jackdaw · 1872
• How I Learned to Ride · 1872
• The Axe and the Saw · 1872
• The Soldier's Wife's Life · 1862
• The Cat and the Mice · 1872
• Ice, Water and Steam · 1872
• The Quail and Her Chicks · 1872
• Bulka · 1872
• Bulka and the Wild Boar · 1872
• The Pheasants · 1872
• Milton and Bulka · 1872
• The Turtle · 1872
• Bulka and the Wolf · 1872
• What Happened to Bulka in Pyatigorsk · 1872
• The End of Bulka and Milton · 1872
• The Birds and the Net · 1872
• The Sense of Smell · 1872
• The Dogs and the Cook · 1872
• The Founding of Rome · 1872
• God Sees the Truth, but Waits · 1872
• Crystals · 1872
• The Wolf and the Goat · 1872
• Polycrates of Samos · 1872
• Volga the Bogatyr · 1872
• The King and the Shirt · 1872
• The Reed and the Olive Tree · 1872
• The Wolf and the Peasant · 1872
• The Two Companions · 1872
• The Jump · 1872
• The Oak and the Hazel · 1872
• Harmful Air · 1872
• Bad Air · 1872
• The Wolf and the Lamb · 1872
• Specific Gravity · 1872
• The Lion, the Wolf and the Fox · 1872
• The King's New Clothes · 1872
• The Fox's Tail · 1872
• The Silkworm · 1872
• The King and the Elephants · 1872
• Hunting Is Worse than Bondage · 1872
• The Hen and Her Chicks · 1872
• Gases (I) · 1872
• Gases (II) · 1872
• The Lion, the Ass and the Fox · 1872
• The Old Poplar · 1872
• The Bird Cherry · 1872
• How Trees Walk · 1872
• The Corncrake and His Mate · 1872
• How Balloons Are Made · 1872
• An Aeronaut's Story · 1872
• The Cow and the Goat · 1872
• The Raven and His Young · 1872
• The Sun Is Warmth · 1872
• Why There Is Evil in the World · 1872
• Galvanism · 1872
• The Peasant and the Water Sprite · 1872
• The Raven and the Fox · 1872
• A Prisoner of the Caucasus · 1872
• Mikulushka Selyaninovich · 1872
• The Wolf and the Mare · 1872
• The Bees and the Drones · 1872
• The Old Horse · 1872
• The Big Stove · 1875
• The Find · 1875
• The Girl and the Robbers · 1875
• The Hazel Branch · 1875
• The Little Bird · 1875
• The Azbuka (ABC) · 1872
• The New Azbuka · 1875
• Russian Readers (I–IV) · 1875
• Arithmetic · 1875
• The Infected Family · 1864
• The Nihilist · 1866
• The Power of Darkness · 1886
• Dramatic Version of the Legend of Aggei · 1886
• The First Distiller · 1886
• The Fruits of Enlightenment · 1889
• Peter the Baker · 1894
• The Living Corpse · 1900
• The Light Shines in Darkness · 1900
• The Cause of It All · 1910
• Song of the Battle of the Chernaya River, 4 August 1855 · 1855
• A Confession · 1882
• A Critique of Dogmatic Theology · 1880
• The Four Gospels Harmonized and Translated · 1881
• The Gospel in Brief · 1881
• What I Believe · 1884
• What Then Must We Do? · 1886
• On Life · 1887
• The Kingdom of God Is Within You · 1893
• The Christian Teaching · 1896
• What Is Religion, and Wherein Lies Its Essence? · 1902
• Religion and Morality · 1893
• How to Read the Gospel and What Is Its Essence? · 1896
• The Teaching of Christ Told for Children · 1908
• Thoughts of Wise Men for Every Day · 1903
• A Calendar of Wisdom (Circle of Reading) · 1906
• For Every Day · 1910
• The Path of Life · 1910
• The Law of Love and the Law of Violence · 1908
• Reply to the Synod's Edict · 1901
• Church and State · 1879
• Project for Reforming the Army · 1855
• Note on the Question of the Nobility · 1858
• On the Moscow Census · 1882
• Nicholas Stick · 1887
• It Is Time to Come to One's Senses! · 1889
• Why Do Men Stupefy Themselves? · 1890
• Afterword to The Kreutzer Sonata · 1890
• The First Step · 1891
• On the Famine · 1891
• On Means of Helping the Population Suffering from Crop Failure · 1891
• Among the Needy · 1892
• In Memory of I. I. Raevsky · 1891
• Non-Activity · 1893
• Christianity and Patriotism · 1894
• Shame! · 1895
• Senseless Dreams · 1895
• The Persecution of Christians in Russia in 1895 · 1895
• The Beginning of the End · 1897
• Famine or No Famine? · 1898
• Two Wars · 1898
• Carthago delenda est · 1898
• The Slavery of Our Times · 1900
• Where Is the Way Out? · 1900
• Thou Shalt Not Kill · 1900
• Patriotism and Government · 1900
• The Only Means · 1901
• To the Tsar and His Assistants · 1901
• On Religious Toleration · 1901
• A Soldier's Memo · 1901
• An Officer's Memo · 1901
• To the Working People · 1902
• To the Clergy · 1902
• Bethink Yourselves! · 1904
• A Great Iniquity · 1905
• The End of the Age · 1905
• The One Thing Needful: On State Power · 1905
• The Meaning of the Russian Revolution · 1906
• The Only Possible Solution of the Land Question · 1906
• Thou Shalt Kill No One · 1907
• I Cannot Be Silent! · 1908
• Recollections of a Soldier's Trial · 1908
• The Inevitable Revolution · 1909
• The Only Commandment · 1909
• It Is Time to Understand · 1909
• The Superstition of the State · 1910
• On Socialism · 1910
• Speech to the Society of Lovers of Russian Literature · 1859
• On Popular Education (1862) · 1862
• The Yasnaya Polyana School in November and December · 1862
• On Methods of Teaching Reading · 1862
• Draft of a General Plan for Popular Schools · 1862
• Upbringing and Education · 1862
• Progress and the Definition of Education · 1862
• Who Should Learn Writing of Whom: Peasant Children of Us, or We of Peasant Children? · 1862
• On the Language of Popular Books · 1862
• On Popular Education (1874) · 1874
• Speech on Popular Editions · 1884
• Some Words about War and Peace · 1868
• Preface to the Collection «Tsvetnik» · 1886
• On Art · 1889
• On What Is Called Art · 1896
• What Is Art? · 1898
• Preface to the English Edition of What Is Art? · 1898
• On Shakespeare and the Drama · 1906
• On Gogol · 1909
• Preface to the Works of Guy de Maupassant · 1894
• Preface to S. T. Semenov's Peasant Stories · 1894
• Preface to W. von Polenz's Novel Der Büttnerbauer · 1901
• Afterword to Chekhov's Story «The Darling» · 1905
• Preface to V. S. Morozov's Story «For a Single Word» · 1908
• Preface to A. I. Ertel's Novel The Gardenins · 1908
• Preface to N. Orlov's Album «Russian Peasants» · 1908
• Introduction to Amiel's Journal · 1893
• On N. N. Ge's Painting «Christ's Last Conversation with His Disciples» · 1886
• Preface to T. M. Bondarev's «Industry and Parasitism» · 1888
• Preface to the Russian Translation of Alice Stockham's Tokology · 1890
• Preface to Edward Carpenter's «Modern Science» · 1898
• Preface to the Russian Translation of Henry George's Social Problems · 1907
• Letter to a Peasant on the Land · 1905
• On the Visit of Henry George's Son · 1909
• Letters · 1910
• Correspondence with N. N. Strakhov · 1896
• Letter to Alexander III · 1881
• Letter to the Editors of Russkie Vedomosti and Novoe Vremya · 1891
• Letter to M. E. Zdziechowski on Patriotism · 1895
• Patriotism or Peace? · 1896
• A Letter to the Liberals · 1896
• Letter to a Non-Commissioned Officer · 1899
• Letter to Nicholas II · 1902
• Letter to a Chinese · 1906
• A Letter to a Hindu · 1908
• Correspondence with Gandhi · 1910
• Letter to P. A. Stolypin · 1909
• Diaries · 1910
• A Landowner's Diary · 1856
• Fragment of the Diary of 1857 · 1857
• Notes of a Christian · 1881
• Dialogue · 1910
• The «Secret» Diary of 1908 · 1908
• Diary for Myself Alone · 1910
• Reminiscences · 1906
• My Life · 1879
• Chinese Wisdom · 1884
• Sayings of the Chinese Sage Lao-Tze, Selected by L. N. Tolstoy · 1910
• Tao Te King, or The Scripture of Morality (with D. P. Konishi) · 1913
• Essay on the Teaching of Confucius · 1903
• Mo Ti, a Chinese Philosopher: The Teaching of Universal Love · 1910
• How the Chinese Live · 1889
• Thief's Son · 1906
• What a Christian May Do · 1887
• The Holiday of Enlightenment of the 12th of January · 1889
• On the Relations between the Sexes · 1890
• God or Mammon? · 1895
• Nobel's Bequest · 1897
• Concerning the Congress of Peace · 1899
• The Commune and the World · 1899
• On Suicide · 1900
• On the Street Riots · 1901
• The Crisis in Russia · 1905
• Love Each Other · 1906
• Letter to a Revolutionary · 1886
• Letter to N. N. Engelhardt · 1882
• Letter to a Kind Youth · 1887
• Manual Labour and Intellectual Activity (Letter to Romain Rolland) · 1887
• Letter to A. V. Vlasov · 1889
• On Non-Resistance to Evil · 1890
• Letter to Sofia Tolstaya on the Famine · 1892
• Letters on Henry George · 1893
• Replies to Critics (Letters to the Daily Chronicle and a Polish Journalist) · 1895
• Reason and Religion · 1895
• Correspondence with P. V. Verigin · 1896
• Non-Resistance (Letter to Ernest H. Crosby) · 1896
• Letter to Eugen Heinrich Schmitt · 1896
• On the Deception of the Church · 1896
• Help! (Postscript to an Appeal for the Doukhobors) · 1896
• Letter to the Doukhobors of the Caucasus · 1897
• Correspondence with the Doukhobors in Canada · 1900
• Letters to an Orthodox Priest and a French Pastor · 1901
• On the Franco-Russian Alliance (Letter to Pietro Mazzini) · 1901
• Letter to the Tolstoy Society of Manchester · 1901
• Letters to Svobodna Misal · 1901
• Letter to a Jew · 1903
• Epilogue to Drozhzhin's Life and Death · 1895
• Apropos of A. I. Ershov's Recollections of Sevastopol · 1889
• Three Phases of Life · 1899
• Letter to the Ministers of the Interior and of Justice · 1896
• Letter to the Commander of the Irkutsk Disciplinary Battalion · 1896
• Letter to the Orthodox Clergy · 1903
• Complete Works in 90 Volumes (Jubilee Edition) · 1958
• Complete Works in 100 Volumes (Academic Edition) · 2000

• Толстой, Л. Н. Собрание сочинений в 22 томах. Moscú: Judózhestvennaia literatura, 1978–1985 (índices de los tomos 1–22 en la Biblioteca Virtual Rusa, RVB; el t. 10, de 1982, recoge los relatos de la Nueva Azbuka y de los cuatro Libros rusos de lectura).