IV. Writing in the School of Hard Knocks

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Translators Foreword xi
4. Preliminary Note xv
5. Part One FROM RAIN TO WAR
6. I. Frontier Boy 3
7. II. Twilight Youth 41
8. III. Anguish and Creation in the Orient 116
9. IV. Writing in the School of Hard Knocks 154
10. Part Two PASSION AND DEATH
11. V. His Discovery of America 227
12. VI. The World Voyage 305
13. VII. Narrator of Himself 355
14. VIII. The Song of the Ancient Mariner 433
15. Notes 487
16. Index of Names 493