Table of Contents:
- Diaries (1847-1852): Devices of Self-Observation and Self-Experimentation
- Cycle of readings, formal problems, and first experiments
- Experiments in the novel: The style and literary composition of Childhood
- Literary ideas after Childhood
- The struggle with romanticism: The Caucasian Sketches and The Cossacks
- The Sevastopol sketches
- Notes to The Young Tolstoy
- Appendices: Boris Eikhenbaum, "The Literary Career of Lev Tolstoi"
- Glossary of names
- Index of Formalist terms