What is the author's style in Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy?

This is a collection of eight long short-stories, or novellas, with one short, short story, Alyosha the Pot. The narratives are unrelated, although certain themes are repeated. Structurally, this follows the conventional challenge-conflict-crisis-resolution of most prose narratives of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.