Preface : "the history of a writer"
"Godly folk"
"A foretaste of heaven"
"Being left"
Foreign devils
"Parental expectation"
"All aspiration"
"Literary development"
"The art of writing"
Distant sons
"Flowering into literature"
"Heroes"
"His own tune"
"Choice souls"
"All my faults and virtues"
"Millstones"
"The 'way within'"
"My real vocation"
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
"The finest bridge in all Peru"
Preparation and circumstance
"Variety, variety"
"Home"
"Strands and threads"
Our living and our dying
The village and the stars
"Chalk...or fire"
"Perseverance"
"Seeing, knowing and telling"
"The eternal family"
"The closing of the door"
"Wartime"
"Post-war adjustment exercise"
Searching for the right way
Kaleidoscopic views
"The human adventure"
"Tapestry"
"Life and death".