Recollections of a Billiard-marker

"Recollections of a Billiard-marker" ("Записки маркера" ["Zapiski markera"], sometimes translated as "A Billiard-Marker's Notes") is a short story by Leo Tolstoy written and published in 1855, early in Tolstoy's career. It was translated to English by Nathan Haskell Dole.^[1] George Herbert Perris described the work as containing "scenic and incidental realism."^[2]

The story was included in the 1958 Tolstoy's Tales of Courage and Conflict.^[3]