1. Tolstoy and Chekhov
Part I. Tolstoy: 2. Family Happiness: a prelude
3. Introduction to a study of War and Peace
4. The pattern of War and Peace
5. Tolstoy's thinking in War and Peace
6. The structuring of Anna Karenina
7. Tolstoy's morality in Anna Karenina and in A Confession
8. Resurrection and Hadji Murad
Part II. Chekhov: The Stories: 9. The Party: a prelude
10. Chekhov and the later Tolstoy. Studies in death
11. Chekhov's 'ideas'
12. Chekhov as a social realist - Peasants and In the Ravine
13. Chekhov as novelist - Three Years
Part III. Chekhov: The Plays: 14. Chekhov's apprenticeship as a playwright (Uncle Vanya and The Seagull)
15. Three Sisters - 'laughter shining through tears'
16. 'I shall call the play a comedy' - The Cherry Orchard
Part IV. A Note on Tolstoy and D. H. Lawrence: 17. Lawrence's debt to Tolstoy in The Rainbow.

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