[The Uneasy Chair 01] • The Uneasy Chair by Stegner, Wallace -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Author’s Note Quote I: The Amniotic Home

1: “These People Are Not My People” 2: Fossil Remnants of a Frontier Boyhood 3: Harvard 4: A Spiritual War 5: Harvard ’20—as of ’18 6: “Between Pauperism and Drugged Dreams”

II: Northwestern

1: Students and Epworth Leaguers 2: In Print 3: The Mercury Mood 4: Stirring Up the Animals 5: “One Story to the S.E.P.”

III: More Privileged Earth

1: Breaking In—and Down 2: “Functional Justification as Part of an Institution” 3: New England: There She Stands 4: Bernardo Furioso 5: On Bread Loaf Mountain 6: Lincoln, Mass. 7: Seminar on Pareto 8: The Literary and the Left 9: Pen Pal 10: We Accept with Pleasure 11: Editorial Temptations 12: “Keep Your Self-Respect” 13: A Hazard of New Fortunes

Photo Insert I IV: The Manhattan Captivity

1: On Moving to New York 2: Beside the Limpopo 3: “You’re There to Lick ’Em for Us” 4: “An Incumbrance for His Lively Spirit” 5: Cambridge Regained 6: An Incident on Bread Loaf Mountain

V: “Periodic Assistance from Mr. John August”

1: Mostly Waste Motion 2: Certain Satisfactions 3: America Revisited 4: Keeping Promises 5: War Effort 6: History as Synecdoche: The Year of Decision: 1846

VI: Blows Given and Taken

1: “So Goes Another of My Fathers” 2: “Fools, Liars, and Mr. DeVoto.” 3: Strange Fruit 4: “The Job I’m Eyeing Is Lewis and Clark” 5: Historian by Serendipity 6: Dog to His Vomit

Photo Insert II VII: Full Career

1: “The Best Thing I Ever Did in My Life” 2: A Function of Journalism 3: Crusader 4: The Lost World of Fiction 5: The Course of Empire 6: The Perils of Paul Pro 7: Collection of Clowns and Cowards 8: “May Six O’clock Never Find You Alone.” 9: Deathward from Childhood

Photo Insert III Notes About the Author