Preface
Youth : a Pre-Raphaelite prodigy ; marriage to Elsie Martindale, 1873-94
Cosmpolitan countryside : Impressionism on the Romney Marsh ; breakdown, 1894-1905
Edwardian London, the English review and Violent Hunt, 1905-13
Impressionism, modernist poetics and The good soldier, 1913-15
War and post-war reconstruction : Stella Bowen, Paris, the transatlantic review, New York, 1915-29
Parade's end : the novelist as historian of his own time, 1924-8
Coda : 'a Franco-American writer' : surviving the depression with Janice Biala, 1930-39.