From the Book - First edition.
Chopin's family background
Childhood and youth in Warsaw, 1810-1824
Exploring Poland : holidays in Szafarnia, 1824-1825
The Decembrist revolt, 1825-1826
At the Warsaw High School for Music, 1826-1828
First trips abroad : Berlin and Vienna, 1828-1829
Konstancja Gładkowska : the distant beloved, 1829-1830
The Warsaw Uprising, 1830-1831
An exile in Paris, 1831-1833
Chopin and the keyboard : the Raphael of the piano
Maria Wodzińska : "My misfortune", 1834-1837
An English interlude, July 1837
Buffets and rewards, 1833-1838
Enter George Sand, 1836-1838
A winter in Majorca, 1838-1839
The death of Mikołaj Chopin, 1844
A harvest of sorrows, 1845-1847
Deepening shadows, 1847-1848
Twilight in Britain, 1848
The death of Chopin, 1849
Appendices. Liszt's questionnaire concerning his Life of Chopin ; General catalogue of Chopin's works.
