Translated by C. J. Hogarth

CONTENTS

I. WHAT I CONSIDER TO HAVE BEEN THE BEGINNING OF MY YOUTH

II. SPRINGTIME

III. DREAMS

IV. OUR FAMILY CIRCLE

V. MY RULES

VI. CONFESSION

VII. THE EXPEDITION TO THE MONASTERY

VIII. THE SECOND CONFESSION

IX. HOW I PREPARED MYSELF FOR THE EXAMINATIONS

X. THE EXAMINATION IN HISTORY

XI. MY EXAMINATION IN MATHEMATICS

XII. MY EXAMINATION IN LATIN

XIII. I BECOME GROWN-UP

XIV. HOW WOLODA AND DUBKOFF AMUSED THEMSELVES

XV. I AM FETED AT DINNER

XVI. THE QUARREL

XVII. I GET READY TO PAY SOME CALLS

XVIII. THE VALAKHIN FAMILY

XIX. THE KORNAKOFFS

XX. THE IWINS

XXI. PRINCE IVAN IVANOVITCH

XXII. INTIMATE CONVERSATION WITH MY FRIEND

XXIII. THE NECHLUDOFFS

XXIV. LOVE

XXV. I BECOME BETTER ACQUAINTED WITH THE NECHLUDOFFS

XXVI. I SHOW OFF

XXVII. DIMITRI

XXVIII. IN THE COUNTRY

XXIX. RELATIONS BETWEEN THE GIRLS AND OURSELVES

XXX. HOW I EMPLOYED MY TIME

XXXI. “COMME IL FAUT”

XXXII. YOUTH

XXXIII. OUR NEIGHBOURS

XXXIV. MY FATHER’S SECOND MARRIAGE

XXXV. HOW WE RECEIVED THE NEWS

XXXVI. THE UNIVERSITY

XXXVII. AFFAIRS OF THE HEART

XXXVIII. THE WORLD

XXXIX. THE STUDENTS’ FEAST

XL. MY FRIENDSHIP WITH THE NECHLUDOFFS

XLI. MY FRIENDSHIP WITH THE NECHLUDOFFS

XLII. OUR STEPMOTHER

XLIII. NEW COMRADES

XLIV. ZUCHIN AND SEMENOFF

XLV. I COME TO GRIEF