num_pages: 720
description: Of all Russian writers Leo Tolstoy is probably the best known to the Western world, largely because of  War and Peace, his epic in prose, and  Anna Karenina, one of the most splendid novels in any language. But during his long lifetime Tolstoy also wrote enough shorter works to fill many volumes. Here reprinted in one volume are his eight finest short novels, together with "Alyosha the Pot", the little tale that Prince Mirsky described as "a masterpiece of rare perfection."The Death of Ivan IlychThe CossacksFamily HappinessThe DevilThe Kreutzer SonataMaster and ManFather SergiusHaji MuradAlyosha the Pot
title: Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy
titlecomplete: Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy
genres: Short Stories, Russia, Novels, Literature, Collections, Russian Literature, Classics, Anthologies, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 2589
publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics