The Statute of Marlborough originally ran to 29 separate chapters; only four remain.
The structure is episodic and non-linear with some chapters only a page or two in length, and yet each one works as a stand-alone piece.
In its printed form, Genesis has 50 chapters, only one and a bit of which directly concern the origins of the universe.
The novel, in which even chapters only two pages long end with a cliffhanger, might seem like little more than a potboiler.
Though the book contains 14 chapters, only the first eight are oracles of the prophet; the remaining six probably came from a school of his disciples and contain various elaborations of Zechariah's eschatological themes.
The back story of the village and its characters is told through the device of footnotes and further reading, labelled, like the chapters, only in odd numbers as a nod to China's continuing literary and historical censorship.
The flashback chapters only work if we are held in suspense about how Peggy's "life in the woods" ends up, and how she makes it back to civilisation, so the reader has to play along with her forgetfulness or repression of the facts.
Other chapters only cover piecemeal information on the governance of low carbon transitions in cities.
And while the fourth and fifth chapters only scratch the surface of their topics, they are still valuable treatments, teeming with anecdote and insight.
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis was an amazing feat of scholarship and insight, spanning 27 chapters, only one of which covered H. sapiens.
This might seem obvious, but we have seen too many students start working on chapters only to have those chapters tossed out later.
