Table of Contents

1. Tolstoy and Chekhov; Part I. Tolstoy: 2. Family Happiness: a prelude; 3. Introduction to a study of War and Peace; 4. The pattern of War and Peace; 5. Tolstoy's thinking in War and Peace; 6. The structuring of Anna Karenina; 7. Tolstoy's morality in Anna Karenina and in A Confession; 8. Resurrection and Hadji Murad; Part II. Chekhov: The Stories: 9. The Party: a prelude; 10. Chekhov and the later Tolstoy. Studies in death; 11. Chekhov's 'ideas'; 12. Chekhov as a social realist - Peasants and In the Ravine; 13. Chekhov as novelist - Three Years; Part III. Chekhov: The Plays: 14. Chekhov's apprenticeship as a playwright (Uncle Vanya and The Seagull); 15. Three Sisters - 'laughter shining through tears'; 16. 'I shall call the play a comedy' - The Cherry Orchard; Part IV. A Note on Tolstoy and D. H. Lawrence: 17. Lawrence's debt to Tolstoy in The Rainbow.

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A study of the great literary relationship between two great Russian authors: Tolstoy and Chekhov, first published in 1971.