From the Book - 1st U.S. ed.
Prologue- I Think We Are Leaving Today... (16h/17th July 1942)
Part I- A Previous Life (1903-1929)
1. The Most Beautiful Country in the World (1903-1911)
2. The Vague and murderous Hope (1912-1917)
3. The Upheaval of All Life (1917-1919)
4. Miss Topsy and Mademoiselle Mad (1919-1924)
5. The Demon of Pride (1925-1929)
Part II- In the Literary Jungle (1929-1939)
6. One Ounce of Good Luck (1929-1931)
7. Enough Memories to Make a Novel (1932-1935)
8. How Happy Are the French! (1935-1938)
9. Children of the Night (1938-1939)
Part III- Stronger Than the Aversion (1939-1942)
10. French Monsoon (1939-1941)
11. Hatred + Contempt (1941-1942)
12. As on a Shipwrecked Boat (13th July-9th November 1942)
Epilogue- A Long Journey (1943-2004)