The 1964 edition of Hemingway's Paris memoir consists of a preface by Hemingway (pg. ix), a "note" by his widow (pg. xi), and 20 chapters, or individual parts or sections.[7] Each of the chapters can be read as a stand-alone piece or entity, not dependent upon the context of the whole work, nor necessarily arranged in any chronological order—with titles descriptive of the subject matter of each, as follows:[7]
- "A Good Café on the Place St.-Michel"
- "Miss Stein Instructs"
- "Une Génération Perdue"
- "Shakespeare and Company"
- "People of the Seine"
- "A False Spring"
- "The End of an Avocation"
- "Hunger Was Good Discipline"
- "Ford Madox Ford and the Devil's Disciple"
- "Birth of a New School"
- "With Pascin at the Dôme"
- "Ezra Pound and His Bel Esprit"
- "A Strange Enough Ending"
- "The Man Who Was Marked for Death"
- "Evan Shipman at the Lilas"
- "An Agent of Evil"
- "Scott Fitzgerald"
- "Hawks Do Not Share"
- "A Matter of Measurements"
- "There Is Never Any End to Paris"