From the Book - First American edition.
Past imperfect, 1800-1882
The dawn of consciousness, 1882-1888
Willingly to school, 1888-1893
Belvedere: in the arms of the Jesuits, 1893-1898
Cultivating thè enigma of a manner', 1898-1899
Making a reputation, 1900-1902
An uncertain future, 1902
S̀inister genius', 1902-1903
A death in the family, 1903-1904
Birds of passage, 1904-1905
At a crossroads, 1905-1906
The conception of Ulysses, 1906-1907
Going freelance in Trieste, 1907-1909
The exile's return, 1909-1910
Portrait of the artist in retrospect, 1910-1912
A portrait completed; a masterpiece begun, 1912-15
The exile in exile, 1915-1917
The coming forth by day of Leopold Bloom, 1917-1918
Settling scores and moving on, 1918-1920
Ulysses: inside the dismal labyrinth, 1920-1921
An eventful labour, 1921-1922
Ulysses: birth and afterbirth, 1922-1924
A conspiracy of concealment, 1924-1926
Fending off the pirates and envisioning the invisible, 1927-1928
A French connection, 1929
Àlways something new on the Robiac front', 1930
A very English wedding, 1931
Death, birth and madness, 1932-1933
Ulysses unbound, 1934-1936
The ABC of blind love and ruination, 1936-1938
A puzzle for a puzzled world, 1939
Gòing downhill fast', 1940