| | Washday | p. 1 |
| | The Study | p. 5 |
| | The Bernhard | p. 8 |
| | Bernhard's Red Cap | p. 11 |
| | The History of Freiherr Heinrich von Hardenberg | p. 16 |
| | Uncle Wilhelm | p. 20 |
| | The Freiherr and the French Revolution | p. 24 |
| | In Jena | p. 28 |
| | An Incident in Student Life | p. 32 |
| | A Question of Money | p. 36 |
| | A Disagreement | p. 39 |
| | The Sense of Immortality | p. 43 |
| | The Just Family | p. 47 |
| | Fritz at Tennstedt | p. 51 |
| | Justen | p. 55 |
| | The Jena Circle | p. 58 |
| | What is the Meaning? | p. 60 |
| | The Rockenthiens | p. 64 |
| | A Quarter of an Hour | p. 69 |
| | The Nature of Desire | p. 73 |
| | Snow | p. 76 |
| | Now Let Me Get to Know Her | p. 79 |
| | I Can't Comprehend Her | p. 86 |
| | The Brothers | p. 89 |
| | Christmas at Weissenfels | p. 92 |
| | The Mandelsloh | p. 98 |
| | Erasmus Calls on Karoline Just | p. 103 |
| | From Sophie's Diary, 1795 | p. 107 |
| | A Second Reading | p. 109 |
| | Sophie's Likeness | p. 115 |
| | I Could Not Paint Her | p. 119 |
| | The Way Leads Inwards | p. 125 |
| | At Jena | p. 129 |
| | The Garden-House | p. 132 |
| | Sophie is Cold Through and Through | p. 135 |
| | Dr Hofrat Ebhard | p. 137 |
| | What is Pain? | p. 139 |
| | Karoline at Gruningen | p. 142 |
| | The Quarrel | p. 146 |
| | How to Run a Salt Mine | p. 148 |
| | Sophie at Fourteen | p. 154 |
| | The Freifrau in the Garden | p. 159 |
| | The Engagement Party | p. 166 |
| | The Intended | p. 173 |
| | She Must Go to Jena | p. 181 |
| | Visitors | p. 183 |
| | How Professor Stark Managed | p. 190 |
| | To Schloben | p. 195 |
| | At the Rose | p. 200 |
| | A Dream | p. 205 |
| | Autumn 1796 | p. 208 |
| | Erasmus is of Service | p. 211 |
| | A Visit to Magister Kegel | p. 213 |
| | Algebra, Like Laudanum, Deadens Pain | p. 216 |
| | Magister Kegel's Lesson | p. 218 |
| | Afterword | p. 225 |