Title -- Contents -- Preliminary Chapter - Ursus -- Another Preliminary Chapter - The Comprachicos -- PART I -- BOOK THE FIRST - NIGHT NOT SO BLACK AS MAN -- Chapter I - Portland Bill -- Chapter II - Left Alone -- Chapter III - Alone -- Chapter IV - Questions -- Chapter V - The Tree of Human Invention -- Chapter VI - Struggle Between Death and Life -- Chapter VII - The North Point of Portland -- BOOK THE SECOND - THE HOOKER AT SEA -- Chapter I - Superhuman Laws -- Chapter II - Our First Rough Sketches Filled In -- Chapter III - Troubled Men on the Troubled Sea -- Chapter IV - A Cloud Different from the Others Enters on the Scene -- Chapter V - Hardquanonne -- Chapter VI - They Think that Help is at Hand -- Chapter VII - Superhuman Horrors -- Chapter VIII - Nix et Nox -- Chapter IX - The Charge Confided to a Raging Sea -- Chapter X - The Colossal Savage, the Storm -- Chapter XI - The Caskets -- Chapter XII - Face to Face with the Rock -- Chapter XIII - Face to Face with Night -- Chapter XIV - Ortach -- Chapter XV - Portentosum Mare -- Chapter XVI - The Problem Suddenly Works in Silence -- Chapter XVII - The Last Resource -- Chapter XVIII - The Highest Resource -- BOOK THE THIRD - THE CHILD IN THE SHADOW -- Chapter I - Chesil -- Chapter II - The Effect of Snow -- Chapter III - A Burden Makes a Rough Road Rougher -- Chapter IV - Another Form of Desert -- Chapter V - Misanthropy Plays its Pranks -- Chapter VI - The Awaking -- PART II -- BOOK THE FIRST - THE EVERLASTING PRESENCE OF THE PAST: MAN REFLECTS MAN -- Chapter I - Lord Clancharlie -- Chapter II - Lord David Dirry-Moir -- Chapter III - The Duchess Josiana -- Chapter IV - The Leader of Fashion -- Chapter V - Queen Anne -- Chapter VI - Barkilphedro -- Chapter VII - Barkilphedro Gnaws His Way -- Chapter VIII - Inferi -- Chapter IX - Hate is as Strong as Love.

Chapter X - The Flame Which Would Be Seen if Man Were Transparent -- Chapter XI - Barkilphedro in Ambuscade -- Chapter XII - Scotland, Ireland, and England -- BOOK THE SECOND - GWYNPLAINE AND DEA -- Chapter I - Wherein We See the Face of Him of Whom We Have Hitherto Seen Only the Acts -- Chapter II - Dea -- Chapter III - "Oculos Non Habet, et Videt" -- Chapter IV - Well-Matched Lovers -- Chapter V - The Blue Sky through the Black Cloud -- Chapter VI - Ursus as Tutor, and Ursus as Guardian -- Chapter VII - Blindness Gives Lessons in Clairvoyance -- Chapter VIII - Not Only Happiness, but Prosperity -- Chapter IX - Absurdities Which Folks Without Taste Call Poetry -- Chapter X - An Outsider's View of Men and Things -- Chapter XI - Gwynplaine Thinks Justice, and Ursus Talks Truth -- Chapter XII - Ursus the Poet Drags on Ursus the Philosopher -- BOOK THE THIRD - THE BEGINNING OF THE FISSURE -- Chapter I - The Tadcaster Inn -- Chapter II - Open-Air Eloquence -- Chapter III - Where the Passer-By Reappears -- Chapter IV - Contraries Fraternize in Hate -- Chapter V - The Wapentake -- Chapter VI - The Mouse Examined by the Cats -- Chapter VII - Why Should a Gold Piece Lower Itself by Mixing with a Heap of Pennies? -- Chapter VIII - Symptoms of Poisoning -- Chapter IX - Abyssus Abyssum Vocat -- BOOK THE FOURTH - THE CELL OF TORTURE -- Chapter I - The Temptation of St. Gwynplaine -- Chapter II - From Gay to Grave -- Chapter III - Lex, Rex, Fex -- Chapter IV - Ursus Spies the Police -- Chapter V - A Fearful Place -- Chapter VI - The Kind of Magistracy Under the Wigs of Former Days -- Chapter VII - Shuddering -- Chapter VIII - Lamentation -- BOOK THE FIFTH - THE SEA AND FATE ARE MOVED BY THE SAME BREATH -- Chapter I - The Durability of Fragile Things -- Chapter II - The Waif Knows its Own Course -- Chapter III - An Awakening -- Chapter IV - Fascination.

Chapter V - We Think We Remember -- We Forget -- BOOK THE SIXTH - URSUS UNDER DIFFERENT ASPECTS -- Chapter I - What the Misanthrope Said -- Chapter II - What He Did -- Chapter III - Complications -- Chapter IV - Moenibus Surdis Campana Muta -- Chapter V - State Policy Deals with Little Matters as Well as with Great -- BOOK THE SEVENTH - THE TITANESS -- Chapter I - The Awakening -- Chapter II - The Resemblance of a Palace to a Wood -- Chapter III - Eve -- Chapter IV - Satan -- Chapter V - They Recognize, but Do Not Know, Each Other -- BOOK THE EIGHTH - THE CAPITOL AND THINGS AROUND IT -- Chapter I - Analysis of Majestic Matters -- Chapter II - Impartiality -- Chapter III - The Old Hall -- Chapter IV - The Old Chamber -- Chapter V - Aristocratic Gossip -- Chapter VI - The High and the Low -- Chapter VII - Storms of Men Are Worse than Storms of Oceans -- Chapter VIII - He Would Be a Good Brother, Were He Not a Good Son -- BOOK THE NINTH - IN RUINS -- Chapter I - It is through Excess of Greatness that Man Reaches Excess of Misery -- Chapter II - The Dregs -- CONCLUSION - THE NIGHT AND THE SEA -- Chapter I - A Watch-Dog May Be a Guardian Angel -- Chapter II - Barkilphedro, Having Aimed at the Eagle, Brings Down the Dove -- Chapter III - Paradise Regained Below -- Chapter IV - Nay -- On High! -- Endnotes.