A General Introduction to Volume I of Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Presentation includes discussion of both conceptual issues and issues regarding translation, and a useful bibliography.

Footnotes and endnotes comment on questions of translation and interpretation of passages, provide details about Schopenhauer’s citations, and provide details regarding the differences between the three editions of the work as published by Schopenhauer himself.

An Expanded Table of Contents indicates the content of the work’s 71 sections, simply numbered by Schopenhauer himself; this is complemented by corresponding section headings added internally to the work.

An extensive index.

Pagination of the original German edition (3^rd) provided in the margins.