1887. With introduction by W.D. Howells. With portrait. Tolstoy is considered one of the greatest of all novelists. Tolstoy's major works include War and Peace and Anna Karenina. The three sketches in this volume are Tolstoy's accounts of his personal experience and observations at Sevastopol. His use of the devices of fiction-setting, detailed description, dialogue, and character development provides them with as much plot as one finds in most of his short stories. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.