War And Peace

1. Anna Scherer’s soirée in Moscow. Prince Vasily negotiates.

2. Pierre Bezukhov arrives.

3. Andrey Bolkonsky arrives to rejoin his pregnant wife, Lise.

4. Pierre’s faux pas in conversation.

5. Pierre’s indecision over choosing a career.

6. Pierre visits Andrey and goes on to Anatole Kuragin’s. Dolokhov’s bet.

7. A double name-day celebration at the Rostovs’.

8. Natasha.

9. Nikolay has joined the army.

10. Nikolay’s relationship with Sonya.

11. Natasha and Boris. Boris’s mother, Anna Mikhaylovna.

12. She takes her son to visit the dying Count Kirill Bezukhov.

13. Boris visits Pierre.

14. Countess Rostov gives Anna Mikhaylovna money for her son’s uniform.

15. Dinner at the Rostovs’.

16. Talk of war. Natasha misbehaves.

17. Sonya’s distress. Natasha dances with Pierre. The ‘Daniel Cooper’ dance.

18. Prince Vasily Kuragin’s machinations over the dying count’s inheritance.

19. Anna Mikhaylovna takes Pierre to see his dying father.

20. The count does not recognize anyone. Pierre’s discomfort.

21. Death of the count.

22. Bald Hills. Old Prince Nikolay Bolkonsky and his daughter, Princess Marya.

23. Prince Andrey arrives with Lise.

24. The old prince discusses Napoleon’s merits with his son.

25. Andrey leaves for the army. Lise is unhappy and frightened about giving birth.

Part II (October—November 1805)

1. The Russian army prepares for an inspection at Braunau.

2. The inspection takes place. Zherkov and Dolokhov.

3. Kutuzov and an Austrian general. The ‘unfortunate General Mack’.

4. The Pavolgrad hussars. Nikolay Rostov, Telyanin and the stolen purse.

5. Nikolay is encouraged to apologize to his commanding officer.

6. Crossing the Enns.

7. Incidents on the crowded bridge.

8. The burning of the bridge. Nikolay’s undistinguished baptism of fire.

9. Andrey is sent with dispatches to the Austrian court. The war minister.

10. Andrey stays with Bilibin.

11. Bilibin’s guests, ‘our people’, including Hippolyte Kuragin.

12. Andrey meets the Emperor Francis. Bilibin’s story of the Tabor bridge.

13. Andrey returns to Kutuzov.

14. Bagration is sent to Hollabrünn. Napoleon writes to Murat.

15. Andrey reports to Bagration. Captain Tushin. Soldiers at the front.

16. Andrey surveys the position. The first shot.

17. The battle of Schöngrabern. Captain Tushin sets fire to the village.

18. Battle scenes. Bagration in the thick of things.

19. Two Russian commanders at loggerheads. Nikolay is injured.

20. Panic. Dolokhov’s moment of glory. Relief for the battling Tushin.

21. Retreat. Nikolay cadges a lift. Andrey defends Tushin.

Part III (November 1805)

1. Prince Vasily and Pierre. Pierre is manoeuvered close to Hélène.

2. Pierre is trapped into a fashionable but loveless marriage.

3. Prince Vasily takes Anatole to Bald Hills – a match for Princess Marya?

4. Anatole impresses the ladies, but not the old prince.

5. The old prince’s opposition. Marya catches Anatole kissing Mlle Bourienne.

6. A letter from Nikolay. Sonya and Natasha.

7. Nikolay visits Boris and Berg, and meets Prince Andrey.

8. Nikolay is inspired by a close view of the Emperor inspecting the troops.

9. Boris visits Andrey at Olmütz. Prince Dolgorukov.

10. Nikolay remains ecstatically inspired by the Emperor.

11. Dolgorukov tells of his meeting with Napoleon. Kutuzov is pessimistic.

12. Kutuzov sleeps through a council of war. Andrey thinks things over.

13. Nikolay at the front. Visit of Bagration and Dolgorukov.

14. The battle of Austerlitz begins. The Russians’ tactical ineptitude.

15. Kutuzov at loggerheads with the Emperor.

16. Andrey halts the Russian retreat, but is then badly wounded.

17. Nikolay meets the wounded Boris. He cannot believe how bad things are.

18. Nikolay misses a chance to assist the Emperor. Disaster on a frozen dam.

19. Andrey, despite medical treatment, seems likely to die, and is left behind.

VOLUME II

Part I (1805—6)

1. Nikolay brings Denisov home on leave.

2. Count Ilya Rostov prepares a grand dinner in honour of Bagration.

3. The dinner at the English Club, Count Rostov’s finest hour.

4. Insulted by Dolokhov, Pierre challenges him to a duel.

5. Pierre wounds Dolokhov and emerges unscathed.

6. Pierre and Hélène have a furious argument. He sends her away.

7. At Bald Hills Andrey is presumed dead, but the news is kept from Lise.

8. Lise is about to give birth. Andrey returns.

9. A baby son is born, but Lise dies in childbirth.

10. Denisov and Dolokhov at the Rostovs’. Love is in the air.

11. Dolokhov proposes to Sonya and is turned down.

12. Iogel’s ball. Denisov’s impressive mazurka.

13. Dolokhov goads Nikolay into gambling, and losing.

14. Nikolay ends up owing 43,000 roubles.

15. Nikolay returns home. Natasha enchants the company with her singing.

16. Nikolay tells his father about his losses. Denisov proposes to Natasha.

Part II (1807)

1. Pierre meets Osip Bazdeyev, a celebrated freemason.

2. Bazdeyev talks about supreme wisdom and Pierre’s unhappy life.

3. Pierre becomes a freemason.