| Overture: In Which We Set the Stage |
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3 | (8) |
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1 In Which We Begin Near the Very End (1915-1859) |
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11 | (8) |
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2 In Which Our Hero Is Born, Spends His Early Years, and Faces Personal Tragedy (1859-1872) |
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19 | (5) |
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3 In Which Our Hero Gets---and Gives---an Education (1872-1877) |
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24 | (8) |
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4 In Which Our Hero Suffers the Ecstasies and Agonies of Love (1877-1880) |
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32 | (6) |
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5 In Which Our Hero Finds the Two Loves of His Life (1881-1884) |
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38 | (13) |
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Act II The Man of Business |
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6 In Which Our Hero Gains a Fortune, and an Enemy (1884-1887) |
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51 | (9) |
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7 In Which Our Hero Publishes a Trial, and Endures the Trials of Publishing (1888) |
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60 | (8) |
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8 In Which Our Hero, Writing About an Artist, Becomes One (1888) |
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68 | (9) |
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9 In Which Our Hero Loves His People, Mourns His Father, and Dreams of Zion (1888-1890) |
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77 | (11) |
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10 In Which Our Hero Loses His Fortune and Gains His First Great Character (1890-1894) |
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88 | (11) |
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11 In Which Our Hero Meets a Dairyman (1894) |
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99 | (10) |
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12 In Which Our Hero Returns to Zion and Other Old Preoccupations (1895-1899) |
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109 | (10) |
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13 In Which Our Hero Reads the Newspapers in Yiddish and Becomes a Media Star (1899-1903) |
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119 | (9) |
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14 In Which Our Hero Spends the Holidays with Us, Visits a Town He Has Created, and Fails to Get a Word in Edgewise (1900-1907) |
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128 | (14) |
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15 In Which Our Hero Confronts Pogroms and Politics (1900-1905) |
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142 | (8) |
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16 In Which Our Hero Gets Caught Up in Someone Else's Solution (1902-1905) |
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150 | (9) |
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17 In Which Our Hero Suffers a Revolution and Makes a Decision (1905) |
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159 | (12) |
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18 In Which Our Hero Takes Longer Than He Thought (1905-1906) |
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171 | (11) |
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19 In Which Our Hero Enters, and Exits, a New Stage (1906-1907) |
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182 | (13) |
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20 In Which Our Hero Has Joyous Meetings and Tragic Partings, and Seeks a Buried Treasure (1907-1908) |
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195 | (14) |
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21 In Which Our Hero Falls Ill (1908) |
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209 | (17) |
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22 In Which Our Hero Rides the Rails, and Returns to the Stage (1909) |
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226 | (11) |
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23 In Which Our Hero Looks Backward (1909-1911) |
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237 | (13) |
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24 In Which Our Hero Fights Back Against Libels of a Frivolous and Tragic Nature, and Encounters His Alternate Selves (1911-1913) |
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250 | (19) |
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25 In Which Our Hero Adapts (1913-1914) |
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269 | (12) |
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26 In Which Our Hero Sees War and Warsaw (1914) |
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281 | (12) |
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27 In Which Our Hero Makes His Farewells to His Vanished World, and Feels the Pain of Children (1914-1916) |
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293 | (19) |
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28 In Which Our Hero's Story Comes to an End, and a Beginning (1915-1916) |
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312 | (207) |
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Epilogue: An Afterlife in Ten Scenes |
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Scene 1 New York/Washington, 1916 |
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319 | (5) |
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Scene 2 New York/London, 1912-1922 |
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324 | (3) |
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Scene 3 The Soviet Union, 1921-1929 |
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327 | (5) |
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Scene 4 New York, 1917-1939 |
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332 | (7) |
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339 | (1) |
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340 | (310) |
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Scene 7 New York, 1949-1959 |
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344 | (9) |
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Scene 8 New York, 1962-1964 |
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353 | (10) |
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Scene 9 Everywhere, 1964-2005 |
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363 | (7) |
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370 | (5) |
| Acknowledgments |
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375 | (2) |
| Bibliographical Notes |
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377 | (58) |
| Index |
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