The ten short stories included in this volume, written between 1855 and 1905, represent the best of Tolstoy’s shorter works both before War and Peace and after Anna Karenina.

The Louise and Aylmer Maude translations of Tolstoy’s short fiction have been revised by Michael R. Katz for increased accessibility. Each story has been fully annotated for student readers.

Preface

The Text of Tolstoy’s Short Fiction

 Sevastopol in December

 Sevastopol in May

 Three Deaths

 Family Happiness

 God Sees the Truth, But Waits

 The Death of Ivan Ilych

 The Three Hermits

 The Kreutzer Sonata

 Master and Man

 Aloysha the Pot

Backgrounds and Sources

 Leo Tolstoy ? A History of Yesterday

 Leo Tolstoy ? The Memoirs of a Madman

 Leo Tolstoy ? Diary for 1855

 Leo Tolstoy ? Selected Letters, 1858–95

Criticism

 Henry Gifford ? On Translating Tolstoy

 Gary Saul Morson ? Tolstoy’s Absolute Language

 Caryl Emerson ? The Tolstoy Connection in Bakhtin

 N. G. Chernyshevsky ? [Tolstoy’s Military Tales]

 Boris Eikhenbaum ? [Sevastopol Stories]

 Gary Saul Morson ? The Reader as Voyeur: Tolstoi and the

 Poetics of Didactic Fiction

 Mikhail Bakhtin ? [Tolstoy’s Three Deaths]

 Renato Poggiolo ? Tolstoy’s Domestic Happiness: Beyond Pastoral Love

 Kathleen Parthé ? Tolstoy and the Geometry of Fear

 John Bayley ? [Ivan Ilych]

 Y. J. Dayananda ? The Death of Ivan Ilych: A Psychological Study On Death and Dying

 Vladimir Nabokov ? [Ivan Ilych’s Life]

 Dorothy Green ? The Kreutzer’s Sonata: A Tolstoian Approach

 N. K. Mikhaylovsky ? Master and Man and The Death of Ivan Ilych

 Richard Gustafson ? [On Ivan Ilych and Master and Man]

 Elizabeth Trahan ? L. N. Tolstoj’s Master and Man—A Symbolic Narrative

 Gary R. Jahn ? A Note on Miracle Motifs in the Later Works of Lev Tolstoj

 Donald Barthelme ? At the Tolstoy Museum

A Chronology of Tolstoy’s Life and Work

Selected Bibliography