Small is great -- The tagalog lake country -- A town called jar -- Four surnames: one family -- The house of Calle real -- Omens & Forecasts -- Growing up delicate -- Beyond the shores of Calamba -- The bonus years at home -- Amid the alien corn -- heartache as education -- Shadows on the lake -- The terrible summer -- At the Ateneo municipal -- The adolescent ilustrado -- Intercouse with the muses -- Bachelor of arts -- Starting the nationalist -- "Junto al Pasig" -- Paciano -- Assaying a virgin heart -- Off to the waiting world -- East to West-to land's end -- "La Corte y Villa" -- "Do not detain me" -- From one peak to the next -- The great Filipino Novel -- A notorious "Balikbayan" -- "Oh, my beautiful country!" -- Around the world in Eight Moons -- Morga, Del Pilar, Simoun -- Rat in trap -- The mills of the Gods grind -- Swan song -- The novels of Rizal: an appreciation -- Rizal the bard -- hamlet and Maria Clara -- Why was the Rizal hero a Creole?