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4. At the conclusion of the ceremony Pierre feels like a new man.

5. Prince Vasily, seeking a reconciliation between Pierre and Hélène, is violently rejected.

6. At another of Anna Scherer’s soirée’s Hélène invites Boris to visit her.

7. Boris goes to her soirée and Hélène urgently invites him to dinner next day.

8. Old Prince Bolkonsky gives Andrey his own estate at Bogucharovo.

9. Bilibin writes caustically about the campaign. The sick baby recovers.

10. Pierre visits his southern estates bent on reform, but he is easily duped.

11. Pierre visits Andrey at Bogucharovo. They argue about methods of reform.

12. A philosophical discussion on the ferry.

13. The ‘Servants of God’ at Bald Hills.

14. The old prince takes to Pierre.

15. Nikolay rejoins his regiment. Food shortages.

16. Denisov illegally seizes supplies from his own army and is wounded.

17. Nikolay visits Denisov, waiting in a vile hospital for his court martial.

18. Denisov reluctantly agrees to petition the Emperor for a pardon.

19. Nikolay’s inopportune visit to Boris at Tilsit.

20. Nikolay manages to get the petition to the Emperor, but it is rejected.

21. Alexander and Napoleon meet. Nikolay is depressed and gets drunk.

Part III 1808—10

1. Andrey empathizes with a moribund oak-tree that refuses to welcome spring.

2. Visiting Otradnoye, Andrey overhears Natasha in a late-night conversation.

3. Andrey revisits the old oak-tree, which is now bursting with new life.

4. Arakcheyev rejects Andrey’s memorandum on reform of the military code.

5. Andrey is more impressed by Speransky, admiring his self-assurance.

6. Andrey agrees to work on a committee for the reform of the Legal Code.

7. Pierre, dissatisfied with freemasonry, seeks reassurance from Bazdeyev.

8. Pierre, wanting to do good, agrees to a reconciliation with Hélène.

9. Hélène, a successful society hostess, now receives Boris regularly.

10. Pierre’s diaries and dreams show how disturbed he is.

11. Berg demands a dowry for marrying Count Rostov’s eldest daughter, Vera.

12. Natasha and Boris are mutually attracted. Sonya seems to love him too.

13. Following a late-night talk with Natasha, the countess sends Boris away.

14. Natasha is involved in fastidious preparations for her first grand ball.

15. Natasha makes a good impression. Pierre is seen talking to Andrey.

16. Pierre asks Andrey to dance with Natasha. They captivate the company.

17. Andrey decides he must marry Natasha. Pierre feels humiliated by his wife.

18. Andrey visits Speransky and is disillusioned by his vacuous character.

19. Andrey visits the Rostovs and is once more enchanted by Natasha.

20. Berg and Vera, assiduous social-climbers, invite Pierre to dinner.

21. The evening is exactly like all the others – just what the Bergs aspire to.

22. Natasha’s head is turned. Pierre tells Andrey to go ahead with the match.

23. The old prince insists on a year’s delay for the wedding. Natasha is shocked.

24. The engagement is kept secret. Andrey leaves for western Europe.

25. The old prince’s attitude to Marya becomes increasingly cruel.

26. He threatens to marry Mlle Bourienne. Marya would like to run away.

Part IV (1810—11)

1. Nikolay returns home, and has doubts about Natasha’s marriage.

2. Nikolay gives Mitenka some rough treatment.

3. Nikolay decides to go hunting.

4. The wolf-hunt begins.

5. A wolf is caught.

6. Ilagin’s courtesy. Triumph of ‘Uncle’s’ dog, Rugay.

7. An evening at ‘Uncle’s’. Balalaika playing. Natasha’s Russian dancing.

8. Countess Rostov wants Nikolay to marry Julie Karagin. She nags Sonya.

9. Chistmas at Otradnoye. Natasha is bored and depressed.

10. The Rostov children reminisce. Mummers. A troika ride to the Melyukovs’.

11. At Melyukovka. Sonya tries her fortune outside, at the barn.

12. Nikolay and Sonya in love. Natasha and Sonya try their fate with mirrors.

13. Nikolay’s marriage to Sonya is opposed. Nikolay rejoins the regiment.

Part V (1811—12)

1. Moscow. Pierre ruminates over what to do with himself.

2. Marya teaches little Nikolay. Prince Bolkonsky and Mlle Bourienne.

3. Prince Bolkonsky treats Dr Métivier as a spy. Congenial conversation.

4. Pierre and Marya discuss Boris Drubetskoy and Natasha.

5. Boris empathizes with Julie in her ‘melancholy’. His proposal is accepted.

6. Count Ilya, Sonya and Natasha stay with Marya Dimitrievna in Moscow.

7. The Rostovs call on the Bolkonskys. Disastrous relationships.

8. The Rostovs at the opera. Hélène is in the next box.

9. The opera. Anatole and Pierre. Natasha meets Hélène. Dancing of Duport.

10. Natasha meets the seductive Anatole and falls under his spell.

11. Anatole and Dolokhov in Moscow.

12. Hélène tells Natasha Anatole is in love with her.

13. Mme Georges’ recitation at Hélène’s. Natasha is bemused by Anatole’s persistent wooing.

14. Marya’s letter to Natasha. Anatole writes a letter to Natasha.

15. Natasha renounces Andrey. A note from Anatole. Sonya is suspicious.

16. Anatole rejects Dolokhov’s dissuasion as he prepares to abduct Natasha.