The Collected Stories of Leo Tolstoy

This collection gathers Tolstoy's shorter fiction across decades: Caucasian and Sevastopol war pieces, estate tales, the deathbed study of Ivan Ilyich, the confession of sexual jealousy in the Kreutzer Sonata, the blizzard journey of Master and Man, late folk parables, and the novella of the rebel Hadji Murat. Landowners, peasants, officers, and husbands face conscience, violence, and the approach of death. Settings move from Moscow drawing rooms to Cossack lines and village huts. There is no continuous plot. The book is a cross-section of the stories and novellas, not the long novels War and Peace or Anna Karenina.

Bound in dark green buckram blocked in gold, cream and black with designs by Roman Pisarev, each volume depicting Tolstoy at a different stage of life, with gilt lettering to spine. Green three-volume slipcase decorated and titled.