Master and Man / Leo Tolstoy

Title: Master and Man 

Author: Leo Tolstoy 

Translator: Louise and Aylmer Maude 

Subjects: Classic; Short Story

A land owner with peasants find themselves losing the road and getting lost due to snow. They Nikita, soon finds himself about to die from hypothermia. Vasily Andreyevich decides to leave Nikita to die and sets out on his own on the horse. He wanders through the snow in circles and eventually falls off the horse, finding himself back by Nikita and the sleigh. The master then lies on top of the peasant to keep him warm through the cold night. In the morning, peasants dig out the sleigh, which was only half a mile from town. They find Vasily Andreyevich and the horse dead but Nikita is still alive.

Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy

Title: Anna Karenina 

Author: Leo Tolstoy 

Translation: Constance Garnett

Subjects: Classic; Fiction; Feminism 

It deals with themes of betrayal, faith, family, Imperial Russian society and rural vs city life. The plot centers on an extramarital affair between Anna and Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky. It scandalizes the social circles of Saint Petersburg. Many authors consider Anna Karenina the greatest work of literature ever written. 

War and Peace / Leo Tolstoy

Title: War and Peace 

Author: Leo Tolstoy 

Translators: Louise and Aylmer Maude
Subjects: Classic; Fiction; Historical Fiction

According to Tolstoy War and Peace is not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle. Large sections, are a philosophical discussion. It is history of the French invasion of Russia and the impact on Tsarist society through five Russian aristocratic families.

The Kingdom of God Is Within You / Leo Tolstoy

Title: The Kingdom of God Is Within You (Christianity Not as a Mystic Religion but as a New Theory of Life)

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Translator: Constance Garnett 

Subjects: Non-Fiction; Philosophy; Religion; Christianity

It was banned in Tolstoy's home country Russia. It lays out a new organization for society based on an interpretation of Christianity focusing on universal love. is a key text for Tolstoyan proponents of nonviolence, of nonviolent resistance, and of the Christian anarchist movement.

Youth / Leo Tolstoy

Title: Youth 

Author: Leo Tolstoy 

Translator: C. J. Hogarth

Subjects: Autobiography; Classic; Fiction

Youth is the third in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood and Boyhood. Its about emerging awareness of the world, himself and the people around. Again it is a must read including the first two volumes of the trilogy. 

Boyhood / Leo Tolstoy

Title: Boyhood 

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Translator: C.J. Hogarth

Subjects: Autobiography; Fiction; Classic

It is the second of Tolstoy's 3 autobiographical novels (Childhood, Boyhood, Youth). It is one of best recommended autobiographical book, including other two books. It is must read. 

Childhood / Leo Tolstoy

Title: Childhood 

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Translation: C.J. Hogarth

Subjects: Autobiography; Fiction; Children 

Childhood, Tolstoy's first novel(la) and the first of his 3 autobiographical novels (Childhood, Boyhood, Youth). Childhood is an exploration of the inner life of a young boy, Nikolenka. It is one of best recommended autobiographical book, including other two books.

Concerning the Legal Status of the Jews / Leo Tolstoy

"Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." (St. Matthew, 7, 12.) This is the divine law, which it is the task of every one who considers and feels himself a Christian to follow, and which should also be strictly observed by a State. Now, would any one of the Christians who owe their allegiance to the Russian state consent to be treated as the Jews are in Russia? Would he like to be confined within a certain definite zone of settlement, to be kept from giving his children an education, and to find himself excluded from many fields of honest and honourable endeavour? Would he like, all through his life to be humiliated before his co-citizens of other faith and birth?

The Census in Moscow / Leo Tolstoy

THOUGHTS EVOKED BY THE CENSUS OF MOSCOW. [1884-1885.]

And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?

He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him

impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do

likewise--LUKE iii. 10. 11.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust

doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

To Women / Leo Tolstoy

As stated in the Bible, a law was given to the man and the woman,--to

the man, the law of labor; to the woman, the law of bearing children.

Although we, with our science, avons change tout ca, the law for the

man, as for woman, remains as unalterable as the liver in its place,

and departure from it is equally punished with inevitable death. The

only difference lies in this, that departure from the law, in the

case of the man, is punished so immediately in the future, that it

may be designated as present punishment; but departure from the law,

in the case of the woman, receives its chastisement in a more distant

future.

On Labour and Luxury / Leo Tolstoy

I concluded, after having said every thing that concerned myself; but

I cannot refrain, from a desire to say something more which concerns

everybody, from verifying the deductions which I have drawn, by

comparisons. I wish to say why it seems to me that a very large

number of our social class ought to come to the same thing to which I

have come; and also to state what will be the result if a number of

people should come to the same conclusion.

On the Significance of Science and Art / Leo Tolstoy

CHAPTER I.

. . . {1} The justification of all persons who have freed themselves

from toil is now founded on experimental, positive science. The

scientific theory is as follows:-

"For the study of the laws of life of human societies, there exists

but one indubitable method,--the positive, experimental, critical

method

A Letter to A Hindu / Leo Tolstoy

The Subjection of India-Its Cause and Cure.

Introduction

The letter printed below is a translation of Tolstoy's letter written in Russian in reply to one from the Editor of Free Hindustan. After having passed from hand to hand, this letter at last came into my possession through a friend who asked me, as one much interested in Tolstoy's writings, whether I thought it worth publishing. I at once replied in the affirmative, and told him I should translate it myself into Gujarati and induce others' to translate and publish it in various Indian vernaculars.

Work, Death, and Sickness / Leo Tolstoy

A LEGEND.

THIS is a legend current among the South American Indians.

God, say they, at first made men so that they had no need to work: they needed neither houses, nor clothes, nor food, and they all lived till they were a hundred, and did not know what illness was.

When, after some time, God looked to see how people were living, he saw that instead of being happy in their life, they had quarrelled with one another, and, each caring for himself, had brought matters to such a pass that far from enjoying life, they cursed it.

Where Love Is, God Is / Leo Tolstoy

IN A CERTAIN TOWN there lived a cobbler, Martin Avdéiteh by name. He had a tiny room in a basement, the one window of which looked out on to the street. Through it one could only see the feet of those who passed by, but Martin recognized the people by their boots. He had lived long in the place and had many acquaintances. There was hardly a pair of boots in the neighbourhood that had not been once or twice through his hands, so he often saw his own handiwork through the window. Some he had re-soled, some patched, some stitched up, and to some he had even put fresh uppers. He had plenty to do, for he worked well, used good material, did not charge too much, and could be relied on. If he could do a job by the day required, he undertook it; if not, he told the truth and gave no false promises; so he was well known and never short of work.

What Men Live By / Leo Tolstoy

"We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love

the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death." --1 "Epistle

St. John" iii. 14.

"Whoso hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need,

and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God

abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word, neither

with the tongue; but in deed and truth." --iii. 17-18.

"Love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and

knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."

-iv. 7-8.

Two Old Men / Leo Tolstoy

'The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father. . . . But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek to be his worshippers.'

-- John iv. 19-21, 23.

THERE were once two old men who decided to go on a pilgrimage to worship God at Jerusalem. One of them was a well-to-do peasant named Efím Tarásitch Shevélef. The other, Elisha Bódrof, was not so well off.

Too Dear! / Leo Tolstoy

(TOLSTOY'S ADAPTATION OF A STORY BY GUY DE MAUPASSANT. )

NEAR the borders of France and Italy, on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, lies a tiny little kingdom called Monaco. Many a small country town can boast more inhabitants than this kingdom, for there are only about seven thousand of them all told, and if all the land in the kingdom were divided there would not be an acre for each inhabitant. But in this toy kingdom there is a real kinglet; and he has a palace, and courtiers, and ministers, and a bishop, and generals, and an army.

Three Questions / Leo Tolstoy

It once occurred to a certain king, that if he always knew the right

time to begin everything; if he knew who were the right people to

listen to, and whom to avoid; and, above all, if he always knew what

was the most important thing to do, he would never fail in anything

he might undertake.

Three Hermits / Leo Tolstoy

AN OLD LEGEND CURRENT IN THE VOLGA DISTRICT

'And in praying use not vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask Him.' -- Matt. vi. 7, 8.

A BISHOP was sailing from Archangel to the Solovétsk Monastery; and on the same vessel were a number of pilgrims on their way to visit the shrines at that place. The voyage was a smooth one. The wind favourable, and the weather fair. The pilgrims lay on deck, eating, or sat in groups talking to one another. The Bishop, too, came on deck, and as he was pacing up and down, he noticed a group of men standing near the prow and listening to a fisherman who was pointing to the sea and telling them something. The Bishop stopped, and looked in the direction in which the man was pointing. He could see nothing however, but the sea glistening in the sunshine. He drew nearer to listen, but when the man saw him, he took off his cap and was silent. The rest of the people also took off their caps, and bowed.