List of abbreviations
Introduction: Tolstoy's On life and its times / Inessa Medzhibovskaya
A note on the text
On life / Leo Tolstoy ; translated by Michael Denner and Inessa Medzhibovskaya
Editor's notes
Historical supplement / selected, translated, and annotated by Inessa Medzhibovskaya
Tolstoy's diary (May 1886-February 1887)
Tolstoy's letter to A. K. Diterikhs (September-October 1886)
"The concept of life": Tolstoy's talk at the Moscow Psychological Society (March 14, 1887)
Letters concerning On life, Aleksandra Andreevna Tolstaya and Lev Tolstoy
Letter to Nikolai Grot, against Tolstoy and On life, Archbishop Nikanor of Kherson and Odessa
"A little chronicle": a reader's response to critics of On life
Vladimir Soloviev's unsent letter to Tolstoy (circa 1889-90)
Nikolai Grot's comparison of On life with Nietzsche's writings
Letter to the editor from P. K. Novitskaya.