Published in 1852, when he was just twenty-four, Childhood was Tolstoy’s first published work, and the first of a trilogy of...

A man goes mad because he is happy.

A civil servant behaves like a monster at a wedding-party.

A man is swallowed by a...

The cult novel of fin de siecle decadence that inspired Oscar Wilde

‘It will be biggest fiasco of the year – but I don’t give...

A wounded solider vanishes into notoriety.
A nose is found in a loaf of bread.
Places - like the Nevesky Prospect - are not...

This second volume of Tolstoy's shorter fiction, selected by the critic Sharon Cameron, contains 'Family Happiness', 'The Devil'...