| Chapter 1 | Pierre Just Emerging From His Teens. |
| Chapter 2 | Love, Delight, And Alarm. |
| Chapter 3 | The Presentiment And The Verification. |
| Chapter 4 | Retrospective. |
| Chapter 5 | Misgivings And Preparatives. |
| Chapter 6 | Isabel, And The First Part Of The Story Of Isabel. |
| Chapter 7 | Intermediate Between Pierre's Two Interviews With Isabel At The Farm-House. |
| Chapter 8 | The Second Interview, And The Second Part Of The Story Of Isabel. Their Immediate Impulsive Effect Upon Pierre. |
| Chapter 9 | More Light, And The Gloom Of That Light. More Gloom, And The Light Of That Gloom. |
| Chapter 10 | The Unprecedented Final Resolution Of Pierre. |
| Chapter 11 | He Crosses The Rubicon. |
| Chapter 12 | Isabel, Mrs. Glendinning, The Portrait, And Lucy. |
| Chapter 13 | They Depart The Meadows. |
| Chapter 14 | The Journey And The Pamphlet. |
| Chapter 15 | The Cousins. |
| Chapter 16 | First Night Of Their Arrival In The City. |
| Chapter 17 | Young America In Literature. |
| Chapter 18 | Pierre, As A Juvenile Author, Reconsidered. |
| Chapter 19 | The Church Of The Apostles. |
| Chapter 20 | Charlie Millthorpe. |
| Chapter 21 | Pierre Immaturely Attempts A Mature Book. Tidings From The Meadows. Plinlimmon. |
| Chapter 22 | The Flower-Curtain Lifted From Before A Tropical Author; With Some Remarks On The Transcendental Flesh-Brush Philosophy. |
| Chapter 23 | A Letter For Pierre. Isabel. Arrival Of Lucy's Easel And Trunks At The Apostles'. |
| Chapter 24 | Lucy At The Apostles'. |
| Chapter 25 | Lucy, Isabel, And Pierre. Pierre At His Book. Enceladus. |
| Chapter 26 | A Walk; A Foreign Portrait; A Sail; And The End. |