Those works which are generally accepted as the most important are printed in blacker type. The dates show when the works were first published.
NOVELS
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Childhood
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1852
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Boyhood
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1854
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Youth
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1856-57
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Sebastopol
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1854-55
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The Cossacks
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1861
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War and Peace
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1864-69
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Anna Karenin
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1873-76
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The Kreutzer Sonata
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1889
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Resurrection
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1899
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Hadji Murat
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Not yet published
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Father Sergius
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Not yet published
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PLAYS
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The Power of Darkness (drama)
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1886
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The Fruits of Enlightenment (comedy)
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1889
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The Corpse (unfinished drama)
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Not yet published
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STORIES AND SKETCHES
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A Morning of a Landowner
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1852
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A Raid
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1852
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The Cutting of the Forest
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1855
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Notes of a Billiard Marker
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1856
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Two Hussars
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1856
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An Encounter
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1856
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The Snowstorm
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1856
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Lucerne
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1857
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Albert
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1857
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Three Deaths
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1859
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Family Happiness
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1859
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Polikushka
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1860
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The Decembrists
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1863-68
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The Prisoner of the Caucasus
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1872
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The Death of Ivan Ilyitch
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1886
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Holstomer
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1888
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A Talk Among Idle People
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1892
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Master and Servant
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1895
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Singing in the Village
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1909
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Four Days in the Village
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1910
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The False Coupon
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Not yet published
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After the Ball
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Not yet published
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AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL
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First Recollections
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1878
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Confession
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1879
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The Claim of Love (from his diary)
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1899
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EDUCATIONAL
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The following were the chief articles among many which Tolstoy published in his review Yasnaya Polyana:
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A Project for a General Plan for Elementary Schools
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1861-62
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On Popular Education
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Education and Instruction
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Progress and the Definition of Instruction
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A Primer
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1872
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On Popular Instruction
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1874
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A New Primer
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1875
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ETHICAL AND RELIGIOUS BOOKS AND ESSAYS
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A Criticism of Dogmatic Theology
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1880
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A Short Exposition of the Gospel
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1881
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The Four Gospels Unified and Translated
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1881
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Church and State
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1882
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What is My Faith?
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1884
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On Life
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1887
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The Love of God and of One’s Neighbour
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1889
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Timothy Bondareff
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1890
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Why Do Men Intoxicate Themselves?
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1890
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On Non-Resistance
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1890
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The First Step (on vegetarianism)
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1892
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The Kingdom of God is Within You; or Christianity not as a Mystical Teaching but as a New Conception of Life
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1893
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Non-Activity
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1893
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The Meaning of the Refusal of Military Service
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1893
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Reason and Religion
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1894
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Religion and Morality
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1894
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Christianity and Patriotism
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1894
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Non-Resistance (a letter to Ernest H. Crosby)
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1896
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How to Read the Gospels
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1896
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The Deception by the Church
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1896
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Christian Teaching
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1898
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On Suicide
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1900
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Thou Shalt Not Kill
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1900
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Reply to the Holy Synod
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1901
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The Only Way
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1901
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On Religious Toleration
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1901
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What is Religion?
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1902
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To the Orthodox Clergy
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1903
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Thoughts of Wise Men (compilation)
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1904
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The Only Need
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1905
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The Great Sin
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1905
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A Cycle of Reading (compilation)
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1906
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Do Not Kill
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1906
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Love Each Other
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1906
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An Appeal to Youth
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1907
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The Law of Violence and the Law of Love
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1908
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The Only Command
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1909
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For Every Day (compilation)
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1909
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ART AND LITERATURE
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What is Art?
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1897
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Art and Not Art
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1906
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Shakespeare and the Drama
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1906
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Prefaces to:
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A Translation of "Modern Science," by Edward Carpenter
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Dr. Alice Stockham's "Toxology"
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Orloff's Album
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Amiel
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Free Translations of Stories by:
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Guy de Maupassant
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Bernardin de St. Pierre
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SHORT RELIGIOUS AND DIDACTIC STORIES AND TRACTS FOR THE PEOPLE
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What People are Living By
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1881
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Where Love is, There is God
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1885
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Two Old Men
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1885
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A Fire Neglected Consumes the House
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1885
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Nicolas Stick (Tsar Nicolas I)
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1886
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Does a Man Require Much Land?
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1886
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Ilias
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1886
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The Godson
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1886
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The Three Hermits
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1886
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The Candle
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1886
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The Repenting Sinner
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1886
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The First Distiller
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1886
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Ivan the Fool
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1886
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The Empty Drum
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1887
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Walk in the Light While the Light is With You
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1893
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Three Parables
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1894
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Esarlieddon
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1903
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Three Questions
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1903
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The Restoration of Hell
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1903
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Work, Death and Sickness
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1903
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A Prayer
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1905
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Berries
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1905
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Komey Vasilyeff
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1906
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Why?
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1906
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The Divine and the Human
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1906
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A Letter on Science to a Peasant
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1909
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Published by Posrednik after Tolstoy's death:
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False Beliefs
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1911
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Life in Reality
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On Religion
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The Soul
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Love
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The Sexual Instinct
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God
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Sins, Temptation and Superstitions
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Excesses
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The Similarity of Men's Souls
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Pride
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Effort
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Wrath
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Vanity
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Parasitism
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False Science
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SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES
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The Census of Moscow (in 1882)
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1882
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Letter to M. A. Engelhardt
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1882
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What Then Must We Do?
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1886
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On Women
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1886
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On Manual Labour
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1887
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Mental Activity and Manual Labour
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1888
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Culture's Feast (on the anniversary of the Moscow University)
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1889
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Letter to a Revolutionist
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1889
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On the Famine (reports and letters)
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1891-93
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Shame! (against corporal punishment)
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1895
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Patriotism and Peace
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1895
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To the Liberals
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1896
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To the Ministers
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1896
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The Approach of the End
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1896
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A Letter to a Non-Commissioned Officer
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1897
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On the Hague Peace Conference
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1899
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Two Wars
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1899
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Who Is to be Blamed?
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1900
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Carthago Delenda Est
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1900
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The Slavery of our Times
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1900
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Where is the Issue?
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1900
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Patriotism and Government
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1900
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Is it Really Necessary?
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1900
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To the Tsar and his Associates
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1901
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The Nearing End of the Age
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1901
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Mementoes for Soldiers
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1901
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Mementoes for Officers
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1901
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On the Working-Class Problem
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1902
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Letters to the Tsar
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1902
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To the Working People
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1902
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To Men of Politics
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1903
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To Social Reformers
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1903
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Letter to Pietro Mazzini
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1903
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Bethink Yourselves
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1904
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In the Russian Revolution
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1904
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How to Emancipate the Working Classes
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1905
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A Great Injustice (on the land problem)
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1905
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On the Social Movement in Russia
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1905
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The End of the Age
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1905
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An Appeal to the People
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1906
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On Military Service
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1906
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On the Meaning of the Russian Revolution
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1906
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What Must be Done?
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1906
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An Appeal to the Government, the Revolutionists and the People
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1907
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The Only Solution of the Land Question
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1907
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I Cannot be Silent (a protest against the wholesale executions)
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1908
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Concerning Molochnikoff's Arrest
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1908
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The Annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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1908
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The Inevitable Revolution
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1909
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An Address to the Stockholm Peace Conference
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1909
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An Efficient Remedy (last article, published three days after his death by the St. Petersburg daily paper Rietch)
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1910
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