Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I - What Happens the Most
1. Balancing Immediacy with Overview
2. Tolstoy's Perpetual Present
3. A String for His Pearls
Part II - The Fusion of Opposites
4. Natasha: Tears in Laughter
5. Pierre: Pursuing Perfection
6. Nicholas: Hmletizing Horatio
7. Princess Mary: Metamorphosis
8. Prince Andrew: Nurse and Father
9. The Structure of Protagonist Development
Part III - The Protagonists' World
10. Encompassing Humanity
11. Tolstoyan Wisdom
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index