Short Stories

This book is a collection of Tolstoi's greatest stories. It opens with the story Two Hussars written by Tolstoi at the age of twenty-six just after he had returned to St. Petersburg from active service in the Crimea, and closes with After the Ball, the last of the great writer's stories which was not published until after his death.The works included in this collection are representative of his writing over a full half century.Two Hussars (1856)Yardstick (1995)The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886)The Kreutzer Sonata (1889)Father Sergius (1898)After the Ball (1903)Tolstoy, Leo is the author of 'Short Stories' with ISBN 9780898752366 and ISBN 0898752361.