Bibliography: v. 2, p. xcix-xcv.

Volume 1: birth and background -- The happy time -- The challenge of despair -- Ambition's ladder -- First love -- The career takes shape -- Box is born -- Catherine -- "Pickwick triumphant" -- Knight of the joyful countenance -- Metamorphosis of a journalist -- Lost love -- Ascent of the rocket -- The break with Bentley -- The will in command -- The thieves' den and the world: criticism of Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby -- Master Humphrey's clock strikes one -- Emergence of a radical -- The neglected and misused: criticism of The old curiosity shop and Barnaby Rudge -- Triumph in Scotland and the Eve of a new departure -- The American dream -- Conquest with undertones -- "Not the Republic of my imagination" -- Return journey -- Home again: valedictory on America -- Year of Desappointment -- Selfishness and the economic man: criticism of Martin Chuzzlewit and A Christmas Carol -- Battles and Italian air-castles -- From the bells of Genoa... -- ...To the chimes of London -- Last days in Italy -- Birth pangs of the Daily News.

Volume 2: Difficulties with Dombey -- The "Want of Something" -- The world of Dombeyism: criticism of Dombey and Son -- A haunted man -- "Myself into the shadowy world" -- His favorite child: criticism of David Copperfield -- Household words -- Splendid Barnstorming -- Fog over England -- The anatomy of society: criticism of Bleak House -- "The heaviest blow in my power" -- Critique of materialism: criticism of Hard Times -- "Fire bursts out" -- "nobody's fault" -- "Old hell shaft" -- The prison of society: criticism of Little Dorrit -- Breaking point -- "The track of a storm" -- Surface Serene -- The tempest and the ruined garden: criticism of A Tale of two cities and Great Expectations -- Intimations of mortality -- The great dust-heap: criticism of Our Mutual Friend -- Pilgrim of Gad's hill -- To the loadstone rock -- Last Rally -- The dying and undying voice: criticism of The mystery of Edwin Drood and Valedictory -- The narrow bed.