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Including:* ALL 12 novels with professional formatting* Plus the RARE unfinished novel The Decembrists which Tolstoy intended to be a sequel to the great War and Peace* Plus the other rare unfinished novel Morning of a Landed Proprietor* Brief but informative introductions to all of the novels* Attractive images relating to Tolstoys life and works throughout the eBook* ALL the short stories that have been translated into English* features a bonus selection of non-fiction texts, including Tolstoys Journal* ALL of the plays* special Main Character pages for War and Peace and Anna Karenina to aid reading these large novels* improved translations of the short stories, in response to a customer review* includes contents tables for each novel and play, allowing easy navigation around the massive file* UPDATED with a special literary criticism section, with 9 different essays examining Tolstoys contribution to literature, with works by writers such as Virginia Woolf and William Lyon Phelps* UPDATED with BONUS texts of two biographies on Tolstoy, by his wife and son* UPDATED with the rare play LIVE CORPSE, unpublished in Tolstoys lifetimeBelieved by many to be the greatest novelist the world has known, the Russian Masters work is of paramount importance. This definitive Edition of Tolstoys oeuvre has every translated novel, short story, novella and play written by Leo Tolstoy. One of our most popular eBooks - now you can own the great Master of Realist fiction. There is also a front no-nonsense contents table, allowing easy navigation around the enormous file. As with all Delphi Classics, the texts are arranged in chronological order, allowing a scholarly reading and appreciation of Tolstoys works.Please note: an absolute complete works of Tolstoy is not possible in English due to copyright restrictions on various translations and some texts not being translated into English yet. However, this eBook strives to give customers the most texts possible and contains all of the MAJOR works. As a bonus, a selection of non-fiction texts are available too.ContentsThe Novels and NovellasCHILDHOODBOYHOODYOUTHFAMILY HAPPINESSTHE COSSACKSWAR AND PEACEANNA KARENINATHE DEATH OF IVAN ILYCHTHE KREUTZER SONATA.RESURRECTIONTHE FORGED COUPONHADJI MURADThe Unfinished NovelsTHE DECEMBRISTSA MORNING OF A LANDED PROPRIETORThe Short StoriesLIST OF STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDERLIST OF STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDERThe PlaysTHE POWER OF DARKNESSTHE FRUITS OF CULTUREREDEMPTIONTHE CAUSE OF IT ALLTHE FIRST DISTILLERTHE LIGHT SHINES IN DARKNESSLIVE CORPSESelected Non-FictionA CONFESSIONKINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOUWHAT THEN MUST WE DO?ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SCIENCE AND ARTBETHINK YOURSELVES!MOSCOW CENSUSTOLSTOY ON SHAKESPEARETOLSTOYS JOURNALThe CriticismTOLSTOY THE ARTIST by Ivan PaninTOLSTOY THE PREACHER by Ivan PaninExtract from MY LITERARY PASSIONS by William Dean HowellsExtract from ESSAYS ON RUSSIAN NOVELISTS by William Lyon PhelpsRUSSIAN ROMANCE by Earl of Evelyn Baring CromerExtracts from A SURVEY OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE by Isabel Florence HapgoodExtract from AN OUTLINE OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE by Maurice BaringTHE RUSSIAN POINT OF VIEW by Virginia WoolfExtract from PROPHETS OF DISSENT by Otto HellerThe BiographiesREMINISCENCES OF TOLSTOY by Ilya TolstoyAUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COUNTESS TOLSTOY

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The Complete Works of

LEO TOLSTOY

(1828-1910)

Contents Delphi Classics 2012 Version 3 The Complete Works - photo 1

Contents

Delphi Classics 2012 Version 3 The Complete Works of LEO - photo 2

Delphi Classics 2012

Version 3

The Complete Works of LEO TOLSTOY By Delphi Classics 2012 - photo 3

The Complete Works of

LEO TOLSTOY

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By Delphi Classics, 2012


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The Novels and Novella s

The birthplace home and final resting place of of Leo Tolstoy Yasnaya Polyana - photo 6

The birthplace, home and final resting place of of Leo Tolstoy, Yasnaya Polyana

CHILDHOO D

Translated by C J Hogarth Childhood was published in 1852 and is the first - photo 7

Translated by C. J. Hogarth

Childhood was published in 1852 and is the first novel in Tolstoys autobiographical trilogy, with Boyhood and Youth . These works launched his writing career, earning him immediate acclaim. Tolstoys first novel describes the major physiological decisions of boyhood that all boys experience.


Kramskoys famous portrait of Tolstoy 1873 CHILDHOOD CONTENTS - photo 8

Kramskoys famous portrait of Tolstoy, 1873


CHILDHOOD

CONTENTS


CHAPTER I

TUTOR, KARL IVANITCH

On the 12th of August, 18 (just three days after my tenth birthday, when I had been given such wonderful presents), I was awakened at seven oclock in the morning by Karl Ivanitch slapping the wall close to my head with a fly-flap made of sugar paper and a stick. He did this so roughly that he hit the image of my patron saint suspended to the oaken back of my bed, and the dead fly fell down on my curls. I peeped out from under the coverlet, steadied the still shaking image with my hand, flicked the dead fly on to the floor, and gazed at Karl Ivanitch with sleepy, wrathful eyes. He, in a parti-coloured wadded dressing-gown fastened about the waist with a wide belt of the same material, a red knitted cap adorned with a tassel, and soft slippers of goat skin, went on walking round the walls and taking aim at, and slapping, flies.

Suppose, I thought to myself, that I am only a small boy, yet why should he disturb me? Why does he not go killing flies around Wolodas bed? No; Woloda is older than I, and I am the youngest of the family, so he torments me. That is what he thinks of all day long how to tease me. He knows very well that he has woken me up and frightened me, but he pretends not to notice it. Disgusting brute! And his dressing-gown and cap and tassel too they are all of them disgusting.

While I was thus inwardly venting my wrath upon Karl Ivanitch, he had passed to his own bedstead, looked at his watch (which hung suspended in a little shoe sewn with bugles), and deposited the fly-flap on a nail, then, evidently in the most cheerful mood possible, he turned round to us.

Get up, children! It is quite time, and your mother is already in the drawing-room, he exclaimed in his strong German accent. Then he crossed over to me, sat down at my feet, and took his snuff-box out of his pocket. I pretended to be asleep. Karl Ivanitch sneezed, wiped his nose, flicked his fingers, and began amusing himself by teasing me and tickling my toes as he said with a smile, Well, well, little lazy one!

For all my dread of being tickled, I determined not to get out of bed or to answer him, but hid my head deeper in the pillow, kicked out with all my strength, and strained every nerve to keep from laughing.

How kind he is, and how fond of us! I thought to myself. Yet to think that I could be hating him so just now!

I felt angry, both with myself and with Karl Ivanitch, I wanted to laugh and to cry at the same time, for my nerves were all on edge.

Leave me alone, Karl! I exclaimed at length, with tears in my eyes, as I raised my head from beneath the bed-clothes.

Karl Ivanitch was taken aback, He left off tickling my feet, and asked me kindly what the matter was, Had I had a disagreeable dream? His good German face and the sympathy with which he sought to know the cause of my tears made them flow the faster. I felt conscience-stricken, and could not understand how, only a minute ago, I had been hating Karl, and thinking his dressing-gown and cap and tassel disgusting. On the contrary, they looked eminently lovable now. Even the tassel seemed another token of his goodness. I replied that I was crying because I had had a bad dream, and had seen Mamma dead and being buried. Of course it was a mere invention, since I did not remember having dreamt anything at all that night, but the truth was that Karls sympathy as he tried to comfort and reassure me had gradually made me believe that I HAD dreamt such a horrible dream, and so weep the more though from a different cause to the one he imagined.

When Karl Ivanitch had left me, I sat up in bed and proceeded to draw my stockings over my little feet. The tears had quite dried now, yet the mournful thought of the invented dream was still haunting me a little. Presently Uncle [This term is often applied by children to old servants in Russia] Nicola came in a neat little man who was always grave, methodical, and respectful, as well as a great friend of Karls, He brought with him our clothes and boots at least, boots for Woloda, and for myself the old detestable, be-ribanded shoes. In his presence I felt ashamed to cry, and, moreover, the morning sun was shining so gaily through the window, and Woloda, standing at the washstand as he mimicked Maria Ivanovna (my sisters governess), was laughing so loud and so long, that even the serious Nicola a towel over his shoulder, the soap in one hand, and the basin in the other could not help smiling as he said, Will you please let me wash you, Vladimir Petrovitch? I had cheered up completely.

Are you nearly ready? came Karls voice from the schoolroom. The tone of that voice sounded stern now, and had nothing in it of the kindness which had just touched me so much. In fact, in the schoolroom Karl was altogether a different man from what he was at other times. There he was the tutor. I washed and dressed myself hurriedly, and, a brush still in my hand as I smoothed my wet hair, answered to his call. Karl, with spectacles on nose and a book in his hand, was sitting, as usual, between the door and one of the windows. To the left of the door were two shelves one of them the childrens (that is to say, ours), and the other one Karls own. Upon ours were heaped all sorts of books lesson books and play books some standing up and some lying down. The only two standing decorously against the wall were two large volumes of a Histoire des Voyages, in red binding. On that shelf could be seen books thick and thin and books large and small, as well as covers without books and books without covers, since everything got crammed up together anyhow when play time arrived and we were told to put the library (as Karl called these shelves) in order The collection of books on his own shelf was, if not so numerous as ours, at least more varied. Three of them in particular I remember, namely, a German pamphlet (minus a cover) on Manuring Cabbages in Kitchen-Gardens, a History of the Seven Years War (bound in parchment and burnt at one corner), and a Course of Hydrostatics. Though Karl passed so much of his time in reading that he had injured his sight by doing so, he never read anything beyond these books and The Northern Bee.

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