Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Memoranda -- Prologue -- Book I -- Chapter 1 Lucy Wilson -- Chapter 2 The Masquerade -- Chapter 3 Two Sisters -- Chapter 4 A Night after the Honeymoon -- Chapter 5 A Welcome Guest -- Chapter 6 Don Juan in Hell -- Chapter 7 Parasina Brulard-Hotchkiss -- Chapter 8 An Intermezzo and Further Events at Madame Brulard's -- Chapter 9 The Southern Cross -- Chapter10 Mantis Religiosa -- Chapter11 The Negro Family -- Chapter12 Sulla -- Chapter13 The Manuscript -- Book II -- Chapter 1 Jenny and Frida -- Chapter 2 Far Away -- Chapter 3 The Assault on Looking-Glass Prairie -- Chapter 4 Gretchen in the Bush -- Chapter 5 Unexpected -- Chapter 6 Searching for a Bride -- Chapter 7 Lesbian Love -- Chapter 8 Albert -- Book III -- Dedicated to the Creole Marie Lolet te Bloodword -- Chapter 1 One Year Later -- Chapter 2 Under the Live Oaks -- Chapter 3 The Coffee Pickers -- Chapter 4 The Prince of Würt temberg -- Chapter 5 Aunty Celestine -- Chapter 6 Corybantic Fits -- Chapter 7 In the Hamburg Mill -- Chapter 8 Clubmen of the 99th and 100th Degree -- Chapter 9 Under the Bed -- Paralipomena -- Book IV -- Prologue The Fata Morgana of the South -- Chapter 1 Angel and Genius -- Chapter 2 On the Flight to Nineveh -- Chapter 3 Interludes -- Chapter 4 A Parrot in Cupid's Service -- Chapter 5 A Let ter from the West, or, The Voice of a Friend from Highland -- Chapter 6 The Confession -- Chapter 7 Complications and Revelations -- Chapter 8 One Night in the Life of a Young Woman -- Book V -- Prologue The Criminals' Dock on the Mesa -- Chapter 1 Red Today, Dead Tomorrow -- Chapter 2 The Nurse -- Chapter 3 How It Happened -- Chapter 4 The Reunion -- Chapter 5 The Journey to the Place of Execution -- Epilogue -- Notes.