A History of Yesterday
A History of Yesterday (История вчерашнего дня) is a non-fiction diary entry by Leo Tolstoy[1] written in 1851 and later republished in English in 1928, and then again in 1949, when it was translated by George Kline. It is one of his earliest-written pieces available in English.
According to Salon in 2015, Tolstoy said his choice to write this work was "not because yesterday was extraordinary in any way... but because I have long wished to tell the innermost [zadushevnuiu] side of life in one day. God only knows how many diverse... impressions and thoughts... "[2]
Author A. N. Wilson describes the diary entry as a description of Tolstoy's early indolence, about how he was transformed, about his soirées (parties) at the residence of the Volkonsky's in Moscow, and describes it as a "snapshot of some of the undeveloped elements of his genius before they 'gelled' or came together."[3]
See also
- Leo Tolstoy bibliography
External links
- Source of text.
- A History of Yesterday, from RevoltLib.com
- A History of Yesterday, from Marxists.org
- A History of Yesterday, from TheAnarchistLibrary.org
References
- ^ Tolstoy's short fiction : revised translations, backgrounds and sources, criticism. WorldCat. OCLC 223106441.
- ^ Irina Paperno (January 11, 2015). "Leo Tolstoy's theory of everything: Before writing some of the greatest novels in history, Tolstoy asked some of philosophy's hardest questions".
- ^ A. N. Wilson (1988). Tolstoy. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 64. ISBN 9780393321227.
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- Childhood (1852)
- Boyhood (1854)
- Youth (1856)
- The Cossacks (1863)
- War and Peace (1869)
- Anna Karenina (1878)
- Resurrection (1899)
- Hadji Murat (1912)
- A Landowner's Morning (1856)
- Two Hussars (1856)
- Family Happiness (1859)
- Polikúshka (1860)
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886)
- Walk in the Light While There is Light (1888)
- The Kreutzer Sonata (1889)
- The Devil (1889)
- Master and Man (1895)
- Father Sergius (1898)
- The Forged Coupon (1904)
- "The Raid" (1852)
- "The Cutting of the Forest" (1855)
- "Sevastopol Sketches" (1855)
- "Recollections of a Billiard-marker" (1855)
- "The Snowstorm" (1856)
- "Lucerne" (1857)
- "Albert" (1858)
- "Three Deaths" (1859)
- "The Porcelain Doll" (1863)
- "God Sees the Truth, But Waits" (1872)
- "The Prisoner of the Caucasus" (1872)
- "The Bear Hunt" (1872)
- "What Men Live By" (1881)
- "Diary of a Lunatic" (1884)
- "Quench the Spark" (1885)
- "An Old Acquaintance" (1885)
- "Where Love Is, God Is" (1885)
- "Ivan the Fool" (1885)
- "Evil Allures, But Good Endures" (1885)
- "Wisdom of Children" (1885)
- "The Three Hermits" (1886)
- "Promoting a Devil" (1886)
- "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" (1886)
- "The Grain" (1886)
- "Repentance" (1886)
- "Croesus and Fate" (1886)
- "Kholstomer" (1886)
- "The Two Brothers and the Gold" (1886)
- "A Lost Opportunity" (1889)
- "A Dialogue Among Clever People" (1892)
- "The Coffee-House of Surat" (1893)
- "The Young Tsar" (1894)
- "Too Dear!" (1897)
- "Work, Death, and Sickness" (1903)
- "Three Questions" (1903)
- "Alyosha the Pot" (1905)
- "After the Ball" (1911)
- The Power of Darkness (1886)
- The First Distiller (1886)
- The Light Shines in the Darkness (1890)
- The Fruits of Enlightenment (1891)
- The Living Corpse (1900)
- The Cause of It All (1910)
- A History of Yesterday (1851)
- Confession (1882)
- The Gospel in Brief (1883)
- What I Believe (1884)
- What Is to Be Done? (1886)
- The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894)
- What Is Art? (1897)
- "A Letter to a Hindu" (1908)
- The Inevitable Revolution (1909)
- A Calendar of Wisdom (1910)
- The Decembrists (1884)
- "Posthumous Notes of the Hermit Fëdor Kuzmich" (1905)
- Sophia (wife)
- Alexandra (daughter)
- Ilya (son)
- Lev Lvovich (son)
- Tatyana (daughter)
- Yasnaya Polyana
- Tolstoyan movement
- Christian anarchism
- Departure of a Grand Old Man (1912 film)
- Lev Tolstoy and the Russia of Nicholas II (1928 documentary)
- Lev Tolstoy (1984 film)
- The Last Station (1990 novel)
- 2009 film)
- Story of One Appointment (2018 film)
- A Couple (2022 film)
- Tolstoy Farm
- Tolstoj quadrangle
- crater
- The Triumph of the Farmer or Industry and Parasitism (1888)
- Vladimir Chertkov
- Aylmer and Louise Maude
- Translators of Tolstoy
- Tolstoy scholars
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