War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [839]
XXII. Pierre runs into Boris Drubetskoy. Discussions of the coming action. Dolokhov and Kutuzov. Dolokhov asks Pierre’s forgiveness. Pierre accompanies Bennigsen on a ride along the line.
XXIII. The Russian disposition from Gorki to the extreme left flank.
XXIV–XXV. Prince Andrei’s thoughts on the eve of battle. Pierre finds him. They discuss strategy and commanders. Prince Andrei’s views of war. He embraces and kisses Pierre. Pierre goes back to Gorki. Prince Andrei thinks of Natasha.
XXVI. Napoleon on the eve of battle. “The king of Rome.” Napoleon’s proclamation to his troops.
XXVII. Napoleon’s disposition of his troops.
XXVIII. The unfathomable causes for the conduct and outcome of the battle.
XXIX. Napoleon drinks punch and talks with Rapp. He has a cold. At 5:30 a.m. the battle begins.
XXX. Pierre observes the battle from Gorki. He rides to the bridge over the Kolocha.
XXXI–XXXII. Pierre rides to the Raevsky redoubt. Among the artillerists. Around him the redoubt is taken and retaken.
XXXIII–XXXIV. Napoleon during the battle. His generals ask for reinforcements. He reflects on the difference between this battle and all his previous ones.
XXXV. Kutuzov at the battle. Bagration wounded. Kutuzov shouts at Wolzogen. His certainty of victory.
XXXVI. Prince Andrei’s regiment in reserve behind Semyonovskoe. Steady losses under artillery fire. Prince Andrei is wounded and taken to a dressing station.
XXXVII. Next to Prince Andrei a man has his leg amputated. Prince Andrei recognizes Anatole Kuragin. Pity and love.
XXXVIII. Napoleon looks at the bloody battlefield. A moment of insight. His later accounts of the battle.
XXXIX. Further reflections on the battle. Moral victory of the Russians.
Part Three
I. Achilles and the tortoise. The search for the laws of historical movement.
II. General reflections on the Russian retreat after Borodino and the role of the commander in chief.
III. Kutuzov and his generals on Poklonnaya Hill. Kutuzov’s inner debate.
IV. The council of war in a peasant’s cottage in Fili, viewed by the peasant’s little daughter. Kutuzov’s decision.
V. Thoughts on the abandoning and burning of Moscow. Rastopchin’s role.
VI–VII. Hélène in Petersburg. Two suitors. Her conversion to Catholicism. The question of remarriage. Bilibin’s views. She writes to Pierre.
VIII. Pierre after Borodino. Return to Mozhaisk with foot soldiers.
IX. Pierre’s recollections and dreams at night in Mozhaisk. Return to Moscow.
X–XI. Pierre summoned to Rastopchin. The new poster. Vereshchagin and Klyucharev. Pierre’s talk with Rastopchin. He disappears from home.
XII. The Rostovs in Moscow as the French approach. Late preparations for departure.
XIII. A convoy of wounded arrives. Natasha invites them to stay in their house.
XIV. The Rostovs packing. Another wounded man. He turns out to be Prince Andrei.
XV–XVII. Moscow’s last day. The wounded ask to leave in some of the Rostovs’ carts. A visit from Berg. Family conflict. Natasha insists that they unpack and give the carts to the wounded. Sonya discovers that Prince Andrei is in their train. They meet Pierre on their way out of Moscow.
XVIII. Pierre’s recent days in Bazdeev’s house. The mad Makar Alexeevich and the servant Gerasim. Pierre goes to buy a pistol.
XIX. The Russian troops leave Moscow. Napoleon on Poklonnaya Hill. Le ridicule.
XX. Moscow as an abandoned beehive.
XXI. Shops looted by departing Russian troops.
XXII. Mavra Kuzminishna helps a Rostov relative.
XXIII. Street scenes before the French arrive.
XXIV. Count Rastopchin in abandoned Moscow.
XXV. Count Rastopchin seeks a victim. He speaks to the mob. The killing of Vereshchagin. Rastopchin flees Moscow. His meeting with Kutuzov.
XXVI. The French enter Moscow. Moral collapse. Reflections on the burning of Moscow.
XXVII. Pierre at Bazdeev’s. His plan to assassinate Napoleon. Indecision. Makar Alexeevich gets hold of the pistol. French officers come in.
XXVIII. Pierre saves the French captain’s life. The captain befriends him.
XXIX.