Preface An Unsettled Childhood: 1862
72 Failure of a Pianist: 1872
79 Birth of a Composer: 1880
82 The Path to the Prix de Rome: 1882
84 The Villa Medici: 1885
87 Beginning of the Bohemian Period: 1887
89 From Baudelaire to Mallarmé: 1890
91 Esotericism and Symbolism: 1892 The Chausson Year: 1893 A "Fairy Tale" Gone Awry: 1894 Pierre Louÿs: The Lean Years: 1895
96 Pelléas: The Long Wait: 1895
98 From Bachelorhood to Marriage: 1897
99 Nocturnes: 1900
1901 The Composer as Critic: 1901
3 Pelléas et Mélisande: 1902 From the Fêtes galantes to La Mer: 1903 Debussyism; A New Life: 1904 La Mer: 1905 Projects and Skirmishes: 1906
7 Orchestra Conductor: 1908 "The Procrastination Syndrome": 1909 Images and Préludes: 1910 Le martyre de saint Sébastien: 1911 The Year of the Ballets: 1912 Jeux; Travel to Russia: 1913 The Final Trips: 1914 The War; Pourville: 1914
15 The Factories of Nothingness: 1916
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