The Byron family tree -- Map of Byron's eastern journeys -- Introduction and acknowledgements -- Prologue -- The Byrons : impetuous, bad and mad -- A new life begins, 1798-1803 -- School days, 1803-5 -- Cambridge, 1805-8 -- Bitter-sweet departure, January-July 1809 -- The great adventure, July-December 1809 -- Athens, Constantinople, January-July 1810 -- Reluctant return, 1810-11 -- Encounters with death, 1811 -- The London whirligig, 1812 -- Compulsive thraldom, 1812-13 -- A dangerous passion, 1813-14 -- Uneasy commitment, 1813-14 -- The fatal marriage, 1814-15 -- Annus horribilis, 1815 -- Vengeful women, 1816 -- Escape, 1816 -- Exile, August-September 1816 -- To Italy, 1816 -- Anteroom to the East, 1816-17 -- A new life, 1817-18 -- Decadence in Venice, 1818-19 -- Next-to-last love, 1819 -- Opera Bouffa, 1819-20 -- Limbo in Ravenna, 1820 -- The reluctant departure, 1821 -- The singing birds, 1821-2 -- The wren, the eagle, and the skylark, 1822 -- Genoa, 1822-3 -- Cephalonia, 1823 -- Missolonghi, 1824 -- Death in Greece, 1824 -- Epilogue.
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