Collected Shorter Fiction, Volume 2

_•        LEO        _•

       TOLSTOY        

COLLECTED

SHORTER

FICTION

(in two volumes)

Written over a period of more than half a century, these stories reflect every aspect of Tolstoy’s art and personality. They cover his experiences as a soldier in the Caucasus, his married life, his passionate interest in the peasantry, his cult of truth and simplicity, and, above all, his growing preoccupation with religion. Ranging in scope from novellas like The Kreutzer Sonata and Hadji Murad to folk-tales only a few pages long, they provide a marvelous opportunity to become closely acquainted with Russia’s great novelist. Aylmer and Louise Maude’s classic translations are supplemented by new translations by Nigel J. Cooper of six stories, including two that have never before appeared in English.

EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY

EVERYMAN,

I WILL GO WITH THEE,

AND BE THY GUIDE,

IN THY MOST NEED

TO GO BY THY SIDE

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

First included in Everyman’s Library, 2001

Introduction, Bibliography and Chronology Copyright © 2001

by Everyman’s Library

Translations in the Appendix Copyright © 2001 by Nigel J. Cooper

Sixth printing (US)

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a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by

Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Distributed by Random

House, Inc., New York. Published in the United Kingdom by

Everyman’s Library, Northburgh House, 10 Northburgh Street,

London EC1V0AT, and distributed by Random House (UK) Ltd.

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A CIP catalogue reference for this book is available from the

British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828–1910.

[Short stories. English. Selections]

The collected shorter fiction/Leo Tolstoy; translated by Aylmer Maude

and Nigel J. Cooper; with an introduction by John Bayley.

p.   cm.

eISBN: 978-0-307-81991-8

1. Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910—Translations into English.

I. Maude, Aylmer, 1858–1938. II. Cooper, Nigel J. III. Title.

PG3366.A13 M3 2001                    00-053487

891.73’3—dc21

v3.1

CONTENTS OF VOLUME 2

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Cover

About the Author

Title Page

Copyright

A Spark Neglected Burns the House (1885)

Two Old Men (1885)

Where Love is, God is (1885)

The Story of Iván the Fool (1885)

Stories Written to Pictures (1885)

Evil Allures, but Good Endures

Little Girls Wiser than Men

Ilyás

The Death of Iván Ilých (1886)

The Three Hermits (1886)

The Imp and the Crust (1886)

How Much Land Does a Man Need? (1886)

A Grain as Big as a Hen’s Egg (1886)

The Godson (1886)

The Repentant Sinner (1886)

The Kreutzer Sonata (1889)

Appendix to The Kreutzer Sonata

The Devil (1890)

Father Sergius (1890–98)

The Empty Drum (1891)

Françoise (1892)

A Talk Among Leisured People (1893)

Walk in the Light While There is Light (1893)

The Coffee-House of Surat (1893)

Master and Man (1895)

Too Dear! (1897)

Hadji Murád (1896–1904)

Stories Given to Aid the Persecuted Jews:

Esarhaddon, King of Assyria (1903)

Work, Death and Sickness (1903)

Three Questions (1903)

Fëdor Kuzmích (1905)

Appendix 1: Two Early Stories

Preface

A History of Yesterday (1851)

A Christmas Night (1853)

Appendix 2: Four Late Stories

Preface

After the Ball (1903)

The Forged Coupon (1904)

Alyosha Gorshok (1905)

What For? (1906)

About the Translators

About the Introducer

John Bayley’s introduction and Tolstoy’s shorter fiction 1852–84 appear in Volume 1.

A SPARK NEGLECTED

BURNS THE HOUSE