AUTHORITY FOR CHAPTER XI
Tolstoy's Ispoved: Christchurch, 1901.
Tolstoy's Confession being prohibited in Russia, had to be printed abroad. The edition mentioned above is a reliable one.
CHAPTER XII
WORKS: 1852-1878
Tolstoy's first nineteen stories. Stands in a line of succession. Quality as writer. War and Peace. 'Great' men. Napoleon. The battles of Schöngraben and Borodinó. Tolstoy's influence on war-correspondence. Serfdom. The organisation of society. Characters in War and Peace. Its range. Anna Karénina: Matthew Arnold's essay. Translations. The tendency of the book. Kropótkin's criticism. The volunteers. Tolstoy's attitude towards Government. W. D. Howells's appreciation. Tolstoy's Last Three Decades of work: the magnitude and nature of his effort.
Tolstoy's writings during the first twenty-five years of his literary career divide up into six sections.
First came a series of seventeen stories and sketches, beginning with Childhood and ending with Family Happiness. Next came his series of educational articles in the Yásnaya Polyána magazine. Third came The Cossacks (the finest story he had yet written) and Polikoúshka. Fourth, came War and Peace. Fifth, came the ABC Book, the Readers, and another article on Education; and sixth, came Anna Karénina.
Leaving the educational works out of account, the list can be reduced to nineteen stories and sketches, followed by two great novels.