BOOK ONE
Chapter 1 A Small Town
Chapter 2 A Mayor
Chapter 3 The Welfare of the Poor
Chapter 4 Father and Son
Chapter 5 A Negotiation
Chapter 6 Ennui
Chapter 7 Elective Affinities
Chapter 8 Minor Events
Chapter 9 A Rural Evening
Chapter 10 A Great Heart and a Little Fortune
Chapter 11 An Evening
Chapter 12 A Journey
Chapter 13 Open Work Stockings
Chapter 14 English Scissors
Chapter 15 The Cockcrow
Chapter 16 The Following Day
Chapter 17 The First Deputy
Chapter 18 A King at Verrieres
Chapter 19 Thought Brings Suffering
Chapter 20 Anonymous Letters
Chapter 21 Dialogue with a Master
Chapter 22 Modes of Behaviour in 1830
Chapter 23 The Frustrations of a Public Servant
Chapter 24 A Capital
Chapter 25 The Seminary
Chapter 26 The World,or What the Rich Don't Have
Chapter 27 First Experience of Life
Chapter 28 A Procession
Chapter 29 The First Promotion
Chapter 30 An Ambitious Man
BOOK TWO
Chapter 1 The Pleasures of the Countryside
Chapter 2 Entry into the World
Chapter 3 First Steps
Chapter 4 The Hotel de La Mole
Chapter 5 Sensitivity,and a Pious Lady
Chapter 6 A Matter of Pronunciation
Chapter 7 An Attack of Gout
Chapter 8 What Decoration Confers Distinction?
Chapter 9 The Ball
Chapter 10 Queen Marguerite
Chapter 11 The Tyranny of a Girl!
Chapter 12 Will He Be a Danton?
Chapter 13 A Plot
Chapter 14 Reflections of a Young Lady
Chapter 15 Is It a Plot?
Chapter 16 One in the Morning
Chapter 17 An Old Sword
Chapter 18 Cruel Moments
Chapter 19 The Opera Bouffe
Chapter 20 The Japanese Vase
Chapter 21 Thte Secret Note
Chapter 22 The Discussion
Chapter 23 The Clergy,Woodlands,Liberty
Chapter 24 Strasbourg
Chapter 25 The Department of Virtue
Chapter 26 Love in the Mind
Chapter 27 The Finest Places in the Church
Chapter 28 Manon Lescaut
Chapter 29 Ennui
Chapter 30 A Box at the Opera Bouffe
Chapter 31 Make Her Afraid
Chapter 32 The Tiger
Chapter 33 The Torments of Weakness
Chapter 34 A Man of Intelligence
Chapter 35 A Storm
Chapter 36 Melancholy Details
Chapter 37 A Keep
Chapter 38 A Man of Power
Chapter 39 Intrigue
Chapter 40 Tranquillity
Chapter 41 The Trial
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45