Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction ix
4. Preface xxiii
5. Background 1
6. Childhood 31
7. Early Youth. 1830 to 1834 55
8. The Great Earthquake. Twenty-second birthday 67
9. At the Cross Roads. 1835 79
10. The Path of Perdition. 1836 92
11. Groping His Way Back. May 1836 to May 1838 104
12. Father and Son United. Twenty-five years of age 118
13. The Great Parenthesis. August 1838 to July 1840 128
14. Regina. September 1840 to October 1841 135
15. The Aesthetic Works. 1841 to 1845 144
16. The Postscript 166
17. The Affair of the Corsair 176
18. Thirty-four Years Old 188
19. The Edifying Discourses. 1843 to 1855 196
20. Metamorphosis. 1848 201
21. Venturing Far Out. 1849 to 1851 210
22. Holding Out. 1852 to 1854 222
23. Godly Satire. 1854/55 239
24. Death and Burial. October 2 to November 18, 1855 253
25. Kierkegaard’s Last Words 257
26. Kierkegaard’s Works in English 261
27. How Kierkegaard Got into English 265
28. Index 289