Talk:Leo Tolstoy bibliography

Organization

I think this article would greatly benefit from some organization, perhaps dividing the list into sections of novels and short stories. Chronological order should be maintained within the sections of course. Verkhovensky 06:04, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Family Happiness

Currently, "Family Happiness" is in the SHORT STORY section of this bibliography. Yet, if one clicks on the link, one reads "Family Happiness is an 1859 NOVELLA written by Leo Tolstoy." Furthermore, the article ends with "This article about a 19th century NOVEL is a stub." As well as, "Categories: NOVELS by Leo Tolstoy | 1859 NOVELS| 19th century NOVEL stubs." Luckily, I own a collection of Tolstoy's works that includes "Family Happiness;" in this collection, "Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy," "Family Happiness" is 81 pages long. Wikipedia's article on "novellas," states that a story is typically considered a novella if between 85 and 300 pages. Personally, I do not care if "Family Happiness" is considered a short story or a novella, I just wanted to point out these contradictions. --Quicksandhigh 16:01, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Alyosha the Pot

I have added "Aloysha the Pot" to the short story section. Tolstoy wrote this short story in 1905. In the anthology, "Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy" the short story takes up seven pages. If no one objects, I will write, or at least begin, an article on "Aloysha the Pot." If anyone has any suggests or would like to help me out, feel free to let me know. --Quicksandhigh 16:18, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

The slavery of our times

I read this book recently, and unless it has some alternative name, it has yet to be listed here. Would appreciate if it popped up. ~~ -- — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deadagain33 (talk • contribs) 22:53, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

Three Questions

1885 or 1903?

Bibliography

• Sholem Aleichem (editor, tranlator): Hilf: a Zaml-Bukh fir Literatur un Kunst ("Help: An Anthology for Literature and Art"), Warsaw, 1904.
• Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude (translators): Twenty-Three Tales by Leo Tolstoy, New York, NY: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1907.
  (December 1906 (!) »included in Oxford University Press's series The World's Classics«, often reprinted, f.e. ISBN 9780192500724.)
• Paul Biryukoff: The Life of Tolstoy, London: Cassell, 1911.

Quotations

• »Before the end of the 1880's Tolstoy appears to have lost interest in turning popular legends and tales into short stories that would illuminate his religious and moral convictions. In 1903, however, a special circumstance led him to attempt more stories of this kind. He was invited to contribute to a volume on behalf of persecuted Jews of Russia, especially those attacked that year - in the terrible pogroms at Kishinev. Other distinguished authors, including Chekhov, gladly offered manuscripts for the proposed book. Tolstoy's three brief stories for this purpose were translated into Yiddish by the eminent Jewish writer Sholom Aleichem and appeared in a volume published in Warsaw.«
• »LIST OF TOLSTOY'S WORKS from "The Life of Tolstoy" by Paul Biryukoff, Cassell & Co, Ltd. 1911, pp. 158-164.
  [...]
  Three Questions     1903«
• »Tolstoy was asked to contribute to the collection after writing an open letter to the tsar accusing his government of being directly responsible for the progroms taking place.«
• »Twenty-Three Tales by Tolstoy« (see Bibliography above)
  • Preface:
    »Part VII consists of stories Tolstoy contributed in aid of the Jews left destitute after the massacres and outrages in Kishinéf and elsewhere in Russia in 1903, -- outrages which were forerunners of the yet more terrible Jewish massacres of 1905.
    [...]
    The sections of the book have been arranged in chronological order. The date when each story was published is given. The translations are new ones [...]«
  • Content:
    »PART VII: STORIES GIVEN TO AID THE PERSECUTED JEWS (1903).
          21. ESARHADDON, KING OF ASSYRIA
          22. WORK, DEATH AND SICKNESS
          23. THREE QUESTIONS«

Mitterndorfer (talk) 09:59, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

the decabrists

theres a piece of work by tolstoy missing from the list "The Decabrists - excrepts from a planned novel" (Декабристы, 1860. date according to https://chitanka.info/text/25455-dekabristi) (actually the link is Bulgarian online library, but thats probably not lessening its credibility as a source).

(1878-Hungarian translation).

89.134.199.32 (talk) 21:18, 12 November 2019 (UTC).

• There's a stub article for that unfinished work at The Decembrists. There's no section in the bibliography for unfinished works yet, but Dostoevsky's bibliography article has an Other section that includes unfinished work, so we could follow that lead. AshSIreland (talk) 08:54, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

"Tolstoy writings" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Tolstoy writings. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 March 5#Tolstoy writings until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. PamD 07:59, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Bibliography Accuracy and Completeness

I just modified a bit the bibliography, but I stopped now since Tolstoy wrote a myriad of short works, and the translations sometimes are difficult to find. The bibliography is from:

The Life of Tolstoy, Biriukov (1911)[1]

This source is rather old and I think a lot is lost in translation. The result is neither accurate (there are a few non-existing entries which I corrected already), or complete. Moreover, a few entries in the book are not present in the Wikipedia page. I can not find a complete source of all the material written by Tolstoy, but it can be inferred by putting together the information from various sources, in particular the two works of Wiener and Dole. This can be done, but I am unsure if this is the right way to go, and this should be a significant effort. I would appreciate feedback on how to proceed.