War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [836]
XXII. At Bald Hills. The old prince. Marya and Julie exchange letters.
XXIII–XXIV. Prince Andrei brings the pregnant little princess to Bald Hills. The old prince’s discourse on “Buonaparte.”
XXV. Prince Andrei leaves for the army. Princess Marya gives him an icon. He parts from the little princess.
Part Two
I–II. Kutuzov reviews the troops at Braunau.
III. Prince Andrei in Kutuzov’s headquarters. The unfortunate General Mack.
IV–V. Nikolai Rostov with Denisov. Telyanin and the stolen purse. Discussion and disapproval among the officers.
VI–VIII. Kutuzov falls back towards Vienna as the French advance. Crossing the Enns. Nikolai sees action for the first time.
IX–XII. Kutuzov sends Prince Andrei to the Austrian court in Brünn. Conversation with Bilibin. Morning with Bilibin, Ippolit Kuragin, and other diplomats. Prince Andrei is received by the emperor Franz. Bilibin’s story of the bridge at Tabor.
XIII–XIV. Prince Andrei reports to Kutuzov. Bagration sent to Hollabrunn. Murat criticized by Napoleon.
XV–XVI. Prince Andrei reports to Bagration. Captain Tushin. Prince Andrei surveys the battlefield at Schöngraben. The action begins.
XVII–XX. The battle of Schöngraben. Nikolai is hurt. Persistence of Tushin’s battery. Prince Andrei orders him to retreat.
XXI. The Russian forces withdraw. Tushin summoned before Bagration. Prince Andrei defends him.
Part Three
I–II. Prince Vassily and Pierre. Pierre well received at Anna Pavlovna’s soirée. Hélène’s name-day party. Pierre gets married.
III–V. Prince Vassily and Anatole visit the old prince Bolkonsky at Bald Hills. The courting of Princess Marya. Anatole and Mlle Bourienne in the conservatory.
VI. The Rostovs receive a letter from Nikolai.
VII. Nikolai in Kutuzov’s camp at Olmütz. Visits Boris and Berg. Run-in with Prince Andrei.
VIII. Review of the Russian army by the emperors Alexander and Franz. Nikolai’s enthusiasm.
IX. Boris visits Prince Andrei in Olmütz. They meet with Prince Dolgorukov.
X. Nikolai out of the action at Wischau. He sees the emperor Alexander again.
XI. The buildup to battle. Dolgorukov’s views, Kutuzov’s displeasure.
XII. The Russian-Austrian council of war. Weyrother’s plan of battle. Kutuzov falls asleep. Prince Andrei debates with himself.
XIII. Rostov on the picket line with Bagration’s army. Drowsy thoughts. Bagration and Dolgorukov disagree. Napoleon’s orders to his army.
XIV–XIX. The battle of Austerlitz. Prince Andrei gravely wounded. Napoleon and the infinite sky.
VOLUME II
Part One
I. Nikolai brings Denisov home to Moscow on leave.
II. Count Ilya Andreich arranges a banquet for Bagration at the English Club.
III. The festivities begin. Bagration arrives.
IV. Pierre challenges Dolokhov to a duel.
V. The duel.
VI. Pierre’s ruminations. He breaks with Hélène and leaves for Petersburg.
VII. At Bald Hills two months after Austerlitz. Prince Andrei presumed dead.
VIII–IX. The little princess goes into labor. Prince Andrei arrives. Lise dies giving birth to a son. Lise is buried and Prince Nikolai Andreevich is baptized.
X–XII. Dolokhov recovers in Moscow. The Rostovs come from the country for the winter season. Denisov and Dolokhov frequent the house. Courtships at Christmastime. The young people’s ball at Iogel’s.
XIII–XIV: Card playing at Dolokhov’s. Nikolai loses heavily.
XV–XVI. Nikolai returns home. The party. Natasha sings. Nikolai’s talk with his father. Denisov proposes to Natasha. Nikolai rejoins his regiment in Poland.
Part Two
I–II. Pierre meets the Mason Bazdeev.
III–IV. Pierre and Willarski. Pierre inducted into the Masons.
V. Pierre throws Prince Vassily out.
VI–VII. Soirée at Anna Pavlovna’s after Prussian defeats at Jena and Auerstädt. Hélène befriends Boris Drubetskoy.
VIII–IX. Prince Andrei at Bald Hills. The baby’s illness. Letters from the old prince and Bilibin.
X. Pierre goes to Kiev province to visit his estates. Philanthropic intentions towards his serfs.