From the Book - First Picador USA edition.
Chapter 1 Tombs, trees and a swamp 17 --
Chapter 2 The heir of Hector 51 --
Chapter 3 'Mille regretz' 87 --
'The strangest thing that ever happened' --
Chapter 4 The other Europe 117 --
Bezoars and nightclub hostesses --
Chapter 5 A surprise visit from a flying hut --
'His divine name will be inscribed in the stars' --
Burial rites and fox-clubbing --
How to build the Tower of Babel --
Chapter 6 Genetic terrors 177 --
The struggle for mastery in Europe --
Bad news if you are a cockatrice --
Chapter 7 Jesus vs. Neptune 209 --
Chapter 8 The great crisis 243 --
Austria wears trousers --
The war on Christmas cribs --
Chapter 9 'Sunrise' 277 --
An interlude of rational thoughtfulness --
Defeat by Napoleon, part one --
Defeat by Napoleon, part two --
Things somehow get even worse --
An intimate family wedding --
Chapter 10 A warning to legitimists 313 --
Problems with loyal subjects --
Chapter 11 The Temple to Glorious Disaster 343 --
Funtime of the nations --
An expensive sip of water --
Chapter 12 Mapping out the future 375 --
The lure of the Orient --
Chapter 13 The sheep and the melons 411 --
Elves, caryatids, lots of allegorical girls --
Monuments to a vanished past --
Chapter 14 'The fat churchy one' 439 --
Transylvanian rocketry --
Psychopathologies of everyday life --
Chapter 15 The curse of military contingency 471 --
The Przemysl catastrophe --
Last train to Wilsonville --
Triumphs of indifference.