Tolstoy's Short Fiction : Revised translations, backgrounds and sources, criticism / Edited and with revised translations by Michael R. Katz.

Includes bibliographical references.

Sevastopol in December -- Sevastopol in May -- Three deaths -- A prisoner in the Caucasus -- God sees the truth, but waits -- The death of Ivan Ilych -- The three hermits -- The Kreutzer sonata -- Master and man -- Father Sergius -- After the ball -- Aloysha the pot -- A history of yesterday / Leo Tolstoy -- The memoirs of a madman / Leo Tolstoy -- Diary for 1855 / Leo Tolstoy -- Selected letters, 1858-95 / Leo Tolstoy -- On translating Tolstoy / Henry Gifford -- Less matter, more art : Tolstoy, briefly John M. Kopper -- Tolstoy's absolute language / Gary Saul Morson -- Tolstoy's military tales / N. G. Chernyshevsky -- Sevastopol stories / Boris Eikhenbaum -- The reader as voyeur : Tolstoi and the poetics of didactic fiction / Gary Saul Morson -- Tolstoy's three deaths / Mikhail Bakhtin -- Updating Tolstoy, a Russian director faces war's anguish / Michael Specter -- Prisoners of the Caucasus / Harasha Ram -- Tolstoy and the geometry of fear / Kathleen Parthé -- Ivan Ilyich / John Bayley -- The death of Ivan Ilych : a psychological study on death and dying / Y. J. Dayananda -- Ivan Ilych's life / Vladimir Nabokov -- Sexual continence / Olga Matich -- Presto / Ruth Rischin -- Art and the Kreutzer sonata : a Tolstoian approach / Stephen Baehr -- Master and man and The death of Ivan Ilych / N.K. Mikhaylovsky -- On Ivan Ilych and Master and man / Richard Gustafson -- L. N. Tolstoj's Master and man : a symbolic narrative / Elizabeth Trahan -- A note on miracle motifs in the later works of Lev Tolstoj / Gary R. Jahn -- Father Sergii and the saintly monk / Margaret Ziolkowski -- Before and after After the ball : variations on the theme of courtship, corpses, and culture / Alexander Zholkovsky -- At the Tolstoy museum / Donald Barthelme -- Leo Tolstoy: a chronology.Sevastopol in December -- Sevastopol in May -- Deaths -- A prisoner in the Caucasus -- God sees the truth, but waits -- The death of Ivan Ilych -- The three hermits -- The Kreutzer sonata -- Master and man -- Father Sergius -- After the ball -- Aloysha the pot -- A history of yesterday / Leo Tolstoy -- The memoirs of a madman / Leo Tolstoy -- Diary for 1855 / Leo Tolstoy -- Selected letters, 1858-95 / Leo Tolstoy -- On translating Tolstoy / Henry Gifford -- Less matter, more art : Tolstoy, briefly John M. Kopper -- Tolstoy's absolute language / Gary Saul Morson -- Tolstoy's military tales / N. G. Chernyshevsky -- Sevastopol stories / Boris Eikhenbaum -- The reader as voyeur : Tolstoi and the poetics of didactic fiction / Gary Saul Morson -- Tolstoy's three deaths / Mikhail Bakhtin -- Updating Tolstoy, a Russian director faces war's anguish / Michael Specter -- Prisoners of the Caucasus / Harasha Ram -- Tolstoy and the geometry of fear / Kathleen Parthé -- Ivan Ilyich / John Bayley -- The death of Ivan Ilych : a psychological study on death and dying / Y. J. Dayananda -- Ivan Ilych's life / Vladimir Nabokov -- Sexual continence / Olga Matich -- Presto / Ruth Rischin -- Art and the Kreutzer sonata : a Tolstoian approach / Stephen Baehr -- On Ivan Ilych and Master and man / Richard Gustafson -- L. N. Tolstoj's Master and man : a symbolic narrative / Elizabeth Trahan -- A note on miracle motifs in the later works of Lev Tolstoj / Gary R. Jahn -- Father Sergii and the saintly monk / Margaret Ziolkowski -- Before and after After the ball : variations on the theme of courtship, corpses, and culture / Alexander Zholkovsky -- At the Tolstoy museum / Donald Barthelme -- Leo Tolstoy: a chronology.

Translated from the Russian.