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Leo Tolstoy, author portrait
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Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) was born in central Russia. After serving in the Crimean War, he retired to his estate and devoted himself to writing, farming, and raising his large family. His novels and outspoken social polemics brought him world fame.
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
Hadji Murat
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories
Childhood; Boyhood; Youth
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Resurrection
War and Peace
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
The Cossacks and Other Stories
The Cossacks
Master and Man and Other Stories
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Master and Man
The Kreutzer Sonata
Hadji Murad
Anna Karenina
War and Peace
Collected Shorter Fiction of Leo Tolstoy, Volume I
Collected Shorter Fiction of Leo Tolstoy, Volume II
Anna Karenina
What Is Art?
How Much Land Does a Man Need? and Other Stories
War and Peace
Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth
A Confession and Other Religious Writings
The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Books

War and Peace
Anna Karenina
Hadji Murat
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories
Childhood; Boyhood; Youth
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Resurrection
War and Peace
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
The Cossacks and Other Stories
The Cossacks
Master and Man and Other Stories
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Master and Man
The Kreutzer Sonata
Hadji Murad
Anna Karenina
War and Peace
Collected Shorter Fiction of Leo Tolstoy, Volume I
Collected Shorter Fiction of Leo Tolstoy, Volume II
Anna Karenina
What Is Art?
How Much Land Does a Man Need? and Other Stories
War and Peace
Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth
A Confession and Other Religious Writings
The Death of Ivan Ilyich

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