Preface by Nigel Nicolson * Introduction * Diaries and Dreams * Victoria Sackville-West, Diary Selections * Vita Sackville-West, Diary Selections * Vita's Dream Notebook * Memoirs * Beginnings * Thirty Clocks Strike the Hour * Letters * Family Letters * Sons and Mothers * Vita Sackville-West/Harold Nicolson letters * Vita Sackville-West/Virginia Woolf * Travel Writing * From Passenger to Tehran * From Twelve Days in the Bakhtiari Mountains * Vita's US Travel Diary * Critical Writing * Some Tendencies of Modern English Poetry * Andrew Marvell * Gardening and Houses * From Knole and the Sackvilles * From Country Notes * From English Country Houses * From Joy of Gardening * Short Stories * The Engagement * The Poet * The Poetry Reading * Novels * From Challenge * Seducers in Ecuador * Poetry * Sissinghurst * The Muezzin: Constantiople * Palmyra * A Bowl of Blue Beads * Persia * Storm in the Mountains: For Hilda Matheson * The Quarryman * The Temple of Love * Dawn * Middleton Place, South Carolina * In Memoriam: Virginia Woolf * The Intellectual to His Puppy * Winter Afternoon * From Autumn * Selected Bibliography * Glossary of the Works of Vita Sackville-West