tolstoy.life · reader editions
Every work the dives have surfaced — the run-list for the reader editions and the progress board for where each sits in the loop (dived → built → read → re-dived → ingested). The reader editions focus on the prophet period; the Period column marks which works belong to it, and the table sorts by date. Click a column to sort; type to filter. Generated from the dives, the works records, and the hand-kept status file; it rebuilds on every docs build.
68 works · latest dive 2026-06-21
| Title | Type | Written | Period | PSS | English translation(s) | Canonical | In the loop | Record | Ready |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| War and Peace | novel | 1863-09 – 1869 | — | — | — | — | — | yes | — |
| Anna Karenina | novel | 1873-03-31 – 1877-04-29 | — | — | — | — | — | yes | — |
| A Confession (Исповедь) | essay | 1879 – 1881 | Prophet | — | — | — | built | yes | — |
| Examination of Dogmatic Theology | religious # a critique of religious dogma; the works schema enum has both 'religious' and 'essay'. The sibling Confession record uses 'essay'. Human to reconcile — see needsReview. | 1879 – 1880 | Prophet | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| What Men Live By | short story | 1881 – 1881-12 | 1879–1910 (core composit | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| What I Believe | essay # religious-philosophical treatise; mirror the Confession record's controlled value | 1883 – 1884-01-22 | Prophet | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| What Then Must We Do? | essay # religious-philosophical / social treatise; mirror the controlled value used for Confession & the What I Believe proposal | 1882 – 1886 | Prophet | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| The Death of Ivan Ilyich | novella | 1884-05-09 – 1886-04-06 | Prophet | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| how-much-land-does-a-man-need | short story | 1885-05 – 1885-06 | 1879–1910 (core composit | — | — | — | dived | yes | — |
| The Tale of Ivan the Fool | fairy tale | 1885-08 – 1885-09 | 1879–1910 (core composit | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| The Three Hermits | short story | 1885-06 | 1879–1910 (core composit | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| Two Old Men | short story | 1885-06 | 1879–1910 (core composit | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| Where Love Is, God Is | short story | 1885-03-29 | 1879–1910 (core composit | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| On Life | essay # philosophical / religious treatise; mirror the controlled value used for Confession & the What I Believe / What Then Must We Do? proposals | 1886 – 1887 | Prophet | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| The Fruits of Enlightenment (Плоды просвещения, 1886–1890) | play | 1886 – 1890 | Prophet | — | — | — | dived | yes | — |
| The Power of Darkness (Власть тьмы, 1886) | play | 1886-11-07 – 1886-12 | Prophet | — | — | — | dived | yes | — |
| Resurrection | novel | 1889 – 1899-12-30 | Prophet | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| The Devil | novella | 1889-11-22 – 1889-12-01 | Prophet | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| The Forged Coupon (Фальшивый купон) | novella | 1889 – 1904 | Composed intermittently | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| Father Sergius | novella | 1890 – 1898 | Prophet | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| The Kingdom of God Is Within You (Царство Божие внутри вас) | philosophical | 1890 – 1893-05 | Prophet | — | — | — | built | yes | — |
| Christianity and Patriotism | essay | 1893-10-20 – 1894-03-29 | Prophet | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| Religion and Morality | essay | 1893-08-26 – 1893-11-09 | 1893–1908, centred on th | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| The Works of Guy de Maupassant | essay | 1893-09-17 – 1894-04-14 | Prophet | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| Master and Man (Хозяин и работник) — a novella-dive | novella | 1894-09-18 – 1895-01-26 | Prophet | — | — | — | dived | yes | — |
| The Christian Teaching (Христианское учение) | religious | 1894-03/04 – 1896-10-05 | Prophet | 39: 117–191 | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| How to Read the Gospels | essay | 1896-07-04 | 1893–1908, centred on th | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| Preface to Edward Carpenter's 'Modern Science' | essay | 1897-11-02 – 1898-02-28 | Prophet | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| What Is Art? (Что такое искусство?) | essay | 1897-01 – 1898-02 | Prophet | — | — | — | dived | yes | — |
| Preface to the English Edition of What Is Art? | essay | 1898-03-29 | Prophet | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| The Living Corpse | play | 1900-02-08 – 1900-08-28 | Prophet | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| The Slavery of Our Times | treatise | 1900-01-08 – 1900-08-12 | Prophet | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| Thou Shalt Not Kill | essay | 1900-08-04 – 1900-08-21 | prophet | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| A Reply to the Synod's Edict of Excommunication, and to Letters Received by Me Concerning It | essay | 1901-04-06 – 1901-04-17 | 1893–1908, centred on th | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| On Religious Tolerance | essay | 1901-12-23 – 1902-01-10 | 1893–1908, centred on th | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| The Only Means | essay | 1901-04 – 1901-07-25 | prophet | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| To the Tsar and His Assistants | essay | 1901-03 – 1901-03-28 | prophet | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| What Is Religion and What Is Its Essence? | essay | 1901-08-12 – 1902-01 | Prophet | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| An Appeal to the Clergy | essay | 1902-10-06 – 1902-11-14 | 1893–1908, centred on th | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| The Destruction of Hell and Its Restoration | parable | 1902-11-14 – 1903-02 | 1903 (with the legend's | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| After the Ball | short story | 1903-08-19 – 1903-09-02 | Prophet | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| Esarhaddon, King of Assyria | parable | 1903-08-03 – 1903-08-22 | 1903 (with the legend's | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| It Is You | parable | 1903 | 1903 (with the legend's | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| On Shakespeare and the Drama | essay | 1903-09-26 – 1904-02-01 | Prophet | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| The Three Questions | parable | 1903-08-04 – 1903-08-22 | 1903 (with the legend's | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| Work, Death and Sickness | parable | 1903-08-05 – 1903-08-22 | 1903 (with the legend's | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| Bethink Yourselves! (Одумайтесь!) — a corpus work-dive | essay | 1904-05-13 | prophet | — | — | — | dived | yes | — |
| Divine and Human | short story | 1904-01-12 – 1905-12 | 1905–1906 (Божеское и че | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| A Prayer | short story | 1905-05 – 1905-05-17 | 1905–1906 (Божеское и че | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| Alyosha the Pot | short story | 1905-03-09 – 1905-03-13 | 1905–1906 (Божеское и че | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| Berries | short story | 1905-06-23 – 1905-06-24 | 1905–1906 (Божеское и че | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| Kornei Vasilyev | short story | 1905-03-07 – 1905-03-10 | 1905–1906 (Божеское и че | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| The Great Sin (Великий грех) | essay | 1905-04-21 – 1905-07 | Prophet | 36: 206–230 | — | — | built | none yet | — |
| What For? | short story | 1906-01-31 – 1906-03-15 | 1905–1906 (Божеское и че | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| The Teaching of Christ Narrated for Children | religious | 1907-03-08 – 1908-06-25 | 1893–1908, centred on th | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| Thou Shalt Not Kill Anyone | essay | 1907-07-22 – 1907-08-18 | prophet | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| A Letter to a Hindu | essay | 1908-06-20 – 1908-12-27 | Prophet | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| I Cannot Be Silent | essay | 1908-05-26 – 1908-06-13 | prophet | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| The Law of Violence and the Law of Love | philosophical | 1908-02-02 – 1908-07-15 | prophet | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| Capital Punishment and Christianity | essay | 1909-01-03 – 1909-01-15 | prophet | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| On Gogol | essay | 1909-03-17 – 1909-04-04 | Prophet | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| Three Days in the Village | essay | 1909-11-27 – 1910-01-26 | prophet | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| ABC Book | primer | — | — | — | — | — | — | yes | — |
| destruction-of-hell-and-its-restoration | — | — | 1893–1908, centred on th | — | — | — | dived | none yet | — |
| Sevastopol Sketches | fragment | — | — | — | — | — | — | yes | — |
| The Decembrists | fragment | — | — | — | — | — | — | yes | — |
| The School at Yasnaya Polyana | essay | — | — | — | — | — | — | yes | — |
| Volga-bogatyr | poem | — | — | — | — | — | — | yes | — |