Introduction 1. The Green Stick and the Secret of Happiness 2. Tolstoy’s Early Diaries and his Mastery of ‘Literary Psychology’ 3. Childhood, Boyhood and Youth 4. The Physiognomy of War: The Raid, The Wood-Felling and the Sevastopol Sketches 5. New Paths: The Portrayal of Peasant Life; ‘A Land-lord’s Morning, ‘Polikushka’ 6. The Cossacks, Strider: the Story of a Horse and Family Happiness 7. The Struggle Against the West: Lucerne 8. Tolstoy and Historicism 9. The Problem of Truth in War and Peace 10. What is War and Peace? 11. The Comprehensive Vision 12. Tragedy, Contingency and the Meaning of Life in Anna Karenina 13. Death, A Confession and Ivan Ilych 14. Tolstoy, the Gospels and Jesus: Christian Ethics and Hadji Murad 15. Tolstoy the Ascetic? The Kreutzer Sonata, Father Sergius and Resurrection 16. The Prodigal as Prophet
Biography
E. B. Greenwood
