Great Books and Classics

After the Ball (1903) [gbf(50,HS)]
Or, After the Dance. I used to have this incorrectly listed as chapter 28, part one of Anna Karenina, which begins "After the ball..."; I have since learned that it is a separate work.

HTML (Single page, 55 KB) at Classic Bookshelf (Translator unknown)
Adobe Acrobat File (463 KB) at Penn State's Electronic Classics Series; also includes The Forged Coupon, Alyosha the Pot, My Dream, There Are No Guilty People, and The Young Tsar (Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude)

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Paperback edition of The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories; the "Other Stories" are After the Ball, The Devil and The Forged Coupon. (Viking Press, 1986, 287 pg).

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Anna Karenina (1875-77) [HTR,HC]

HTML (Multi-page, indexed) at Friends and Partners (Translator unknown)
HTML (Multi-page, indexed) at An Online Library of Literature
HTML (Multi-page, indexed) at Bibliomania
HTML (Multi-page, indexed; plain text and MP3 audio also available) at Christian Classics Ethereal Library (Translated by Constance Garnett)
Russian HTML (8 pages, indexed) at Yevgeny Peskin's Public Electronic Library
Russian HTML (Single page, 1,778 KB) at Yevgeny Peskin's Public Electronic Library
Text File (1.95 MB; 728 KB zipped) at Project Gutenberg (Translated by Constance Garnett)
Text File (1.28 MB; 482 KB zipped) at Project Gutenberg (Translator unknown)

Available at Amazon.Com:
Hardcover edition, translated by Aylmer Maude (Everymans Library, 1992).
Paperback edition, translated by Constance Garnett (Modern Library, 2000, 992 pg).
Paperback edition, translated by Aylmer and Louise Maude (Oxford Univ Pr, 1998).
Paperback edition, translated by Joel Carmichael (Bantam Classics, 1984).
Audio CD edition, unabridged, read by Nadia May (Blackstone Audiobooks, 2004).
Audio CD edition, abridged, read by Laura Paton (Naxos Audio Books, 1996).

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The Death of Ivan Ilych (1886) [GBF]

HTML (Multi-page, indexed; plain text also available) at Christian Classics Ethereal Library (Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude)

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Paperback edition of The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories, translated by Rosemary Edmonds; the other stories are The Cossacks and Happily Ever After (Penguin USA, 1990).
Mass Market Paperback edition, translated by Lynn Solotaroff (Bantam Classic and Loveswept, 1987, 134 pg).

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Ivan the Fool (1890) [HC]
One of the Twenty-Three Tales.

HTML (12 pages, indexed) at Bartleby.com (Translated by Constance Garnett)

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Paperback edition of Ivan the Fool, a Lost Opportunity and Polikushka: Three Short Stories (Unknown, 2001, 176 pg).

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My Confession (1880-82)

HTML (Multi-page, indexed; plain text also available) at Christian Classics Ethereal Library (Translator unknown)

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Paperback edition, translated by David Patterson (W.W. Norton & Co, 1996).
Paperback edition of A Confession and Other Religious Writings, translated by Jane Kentish (Penguin USA, 1988, 238 pg).

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Twenty-Three Tales (1907) [HTR,HC]
The HC code comes from the tale Ivan the Fool.

HTML (Multi-page, indexed; plain text and MP3 audio also available) at Christian Classics Ethereal Library (Translated by Aylmer and Louise Maude)

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Paperback edition of Walk in the Light : and Twenty-Three Tales, translated by Aylmer and Louise Maude (Orbis Books, 2003 360 pg).

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War and Peace (1865-69) [GBWW,GI,HTR]

HTML (Multi-page, indexed) at Bibliomania
HTML (Multi-page, indexed) at Friends and Partners (Translator unknown)
French HTML edition (plain text also available) in three volumes at Project Gutenberg (Translated by Georges Guiffrey):
Volume 1 (1.27 MB; 420 KB zipped) - Volume 2 (1.08 MB; 367 KB zipped) - Volume 3 (1.13 MB; 455 KB zipped)

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Paperback edition, translated by Rosemary Edmonds (Signet Classics, 2007, 1456 pg).
Paperback edition, translated by Anthony Briggs (Penguin Classics, 2006, 1424 pg).
Audio Cassette edition in four parts, unabridged (Books on Tape, 1982):
Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4
Audio CD edition, abridged, narrated by Neville Jason (Naxos of America, 1995, 4 CDs).

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What is Art? (1898) [HTR]

Various Formats (Flip Book, PDF, Text File, DjVu) at Internet Archive (Translated by Aylmer Maude)

Available at Amazon.Com:
Paperback edition, translated by Larissa Volokhonsky (Penguin USA, 1996, 201 pg).

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