Preface -- Signs and portents (1877) -- A missing father (1878-circa 1894) -- Apprenticeship in the theater (1895-1899) -- Beginning in London (1899-1900) -- Paris (1900-1901) -- Berlin and Vienna (1901-1902) -- Budapest ... and Romeo (1902) -- Convalescence, success, and a manifesto (1902-1903) -- Pilgrimage to Greece (1903) -- Germany ... and Bayreuth (1903-1904) -- Twin souls (1904) -- Introduction to Russia (1904-1905) -- Russia: signs of two revolutions (1905) -- The birth of Deirdre (1905-1906) -- Duse, Romersholm, illness (1906-1907) -- On t'other side of the river (1907) -- Stanislavski and a London interlude (1907-1908) -- New York: "pure" music and the dancer (1908) -- Singer, Stanislavski, and Craig (1909) -- Life with Lohengrin (1910-1912) -- Heartbreak (1913-1914) -- Exodus (1914) -- The Dionysian in New York (1914-1915) -- A call to arms: the Marseillaise (1915-1916) -- South America (1916) -- Break with Lohengrin (1916-1918) -- Encounter with an archangel (1918-1921) -- To revolutionary Russia (1921) -- Sergei Esenin (1921-1922) -- To Western Europe with Esenin (1922) -- Esenin in New York (1922-1923) -- Return to Russia (1923-1924) -- The invisible banner (1924) -- Farewell to Russia (1924) -- Stranded in Berlin (1924) -- Treading water (1925-1927) -- Isadora's legacy.
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