| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction: Turgenev Today | |
| Note on the Translations | |
| Letter to Bettina von Arnim (1840 or 1841) | 3 |
| A Sportsman's Sketches | |
| Khor and Kalinych | 6 |
| My Neighbor Radilov | 18 |
| Lgov | 25 |
| Kasian from Beautiful Meadow | 35 |
| Death | 52 |
| The Singers | 64 |
| The Tryst | 81 |
| A Living Relic | 89 |
| Letter to A. A. Kraevskii (1849) | 102 |
| The Diary of a Superfluous Man | 104 |
| Letter to Louis and Pauline Viardot (1852) | 152 |
| Letter to O. A. Turgeneva (1855) | 154 |
| A Correspondence | 156 |
| Letter to E. E. Lambert (1856) | 184 |
| Letter to L. N. Tolstoy (1856) | 186 |
| Rudin | 188 |
| Letter to L. N. Tolstoy (1857) | 304 |
| Letter to V. P. Botkin (1857) | 306 |
| A Journey to Polesje | 308 |
| Letter to A. N. Apukhtin (1858) | 326 |
| A Nest of Gentry | 329 |
| Letter to E. E. Lambert (1859) | 480 |
| Letter to I. A. Goncharov (1859) | 482 |
| Letter to E. E. Lambert (1859) | 484 |
| First Love | 486 |
| Letter to K. N. Leontiev (1860) | 545 |
| Hamlet and Don Quixote | 547 |
| Letter to M. N. Katkov (1861) | 565 |
| Fathers and Sons | 567 |
| Letter to F. M. Dostoevsky (1862) | 747 |
| Letter to K. K. Sluchevskii (1862) | 749 |
| Letter to E. E. Lambert (1862) | 752 |
| Enough | 754 |
| Letter to P. V. Annenkov (1868) | 765 |
| Letter to L. Pietsch (1868) | 767 |
| A Strange History | 769 |
| Letter to P. V. Annenkov (1870) | 789 |
| The Execution of Troppmann | 791 |
| Letter to M. A. Miliutina (1875) | 812 |
| Letter to V. L. Kign (1876) | 813 |
| Autobiography | 815 |
| Letter to Ia. P. Polonskii (1877) | 818 |
| The Dream | 819 |
| Letter to V. P. Gaevskii (1880) | 837 |
| Speech Delivered at the Dedication of the Monument to A. S. Pushkin in Moscow | 839 |
| Letter to M. G. Savina (1880) | 850 |
| The Song of Triumphant Love | 852 |
| Letter to L. N. Tolstoy (1882) | 872 |
| Poems in Prose | |
| To the Reader | 873 |
| The Dog | 873 |
| A Satisfied Man | 873 |
| The Sparrow | 874 |
| The Skulls | 875 |
| The Rose | 875 |
| To the Memory of Iu. P. Vrevskaia | 876 |
| The Threshold | 877 |
| The Visit | 878 |
| Cabbage Soup | 879 |
| The Reporter | 880 |
| The Sphinx | 880 |
| Nature | 881 |
| What Will I Think? . . . | 882 |
| Prayer | 882 |
| The Russian Language | 883 |
| Letter to L. N. Tolstoy (1883) | 884 |