Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Childhood and Youth: Loss of Faith and a Passion for Literature -- 2. "At a Distance from Relations": Writing His Treatise in France -- 3. Hume after the Treatise -- 4. Hume as Librarian and Historian -- 5. Hume's Life as a Man in the Public Eye -- 6. Hume's Final Years in Edinburgh -- 7. Death and Character -- Afterword -- Annotated Bibliography -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Name Index -- Subject Index.