Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgements x
5. Abbreviations xi
6. Introduction 1
7. I Dante and Petrarch 8
8. II Villon, Ronsard, and Montaigne 19
9. III Cervantes and Moliere 35
10. IV Voltaire and Rousseau 46
11. V Goethe and Schiller 59
12. VI Pushkin and Lermontov 75
13. VII Balzac and Flaubert 91
14. VIII Baudelaire and Rimbaud 107
15. IX Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky 121
16. X Ibsen, Strindberg, and Hamsun 142
17. XI Chekhov and Gorky 160
18. XII Zola, Fontane, and Proust 173
19. XIII Mann and Kafka 192
20. XIV Pirandello and Brecht 206
21. Appendix A: Translating Flaubert 217
22. Appendix B: Quotations from original texts and selected translations 223
23. Appendix C: The form and pronunciation of Russian names 238
24. Appendix D: The value of money in the mid- to late-nineteenth century 240
25. Copyright Acknowledgements 242
26. Index 243