Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. “So That I Could Easily Read Myself”: Tolstoy’s Early Diaries 9
6. Interlude: Between Personal Documents and Fiction 30
7. Chapter 2. “To Tell One’s Faith Is Impossible. . . . How to Tell That Which I Live By. I’ll Tell You, All the Same. . . .” Tolstoy in His Correspondence 39
8. Chapter 3. Tolstoy’s Confession : What Am I? 60
9. Chapter 4. “To Write My Life ”: Tolstoy Tries, and Fails, to Produce a Memoir or Autobiography 81
10. Chapter 5. “What Should We Do Then?”: Tolstoy on Self and Other 103
11. Chapter 6. “I Felt a Completely New Liberation from Personality”: Tolstoy’s Late Diaries 128
12. Appendix: Russian Quotations 159
13. Notes 201
14. Index 223