American thought and writing: the 1890's

Doctrine of evolution: its scope and purport / John Fiske

Preface, the evolution of Christianity / Lyman Abbott

God and nature / John Burroughs

Is life worth living? / William James

Credo / Edwin Arlington Robinson

Blue battalions / Stephen Crane

Mr. Howells's latest novels / Hamlin Garland

Editor's study / William Dean Howells

Sharps and flats / Eugene Field

Howells discussed at Avon-by-the-Sea / Stephen Crane

Fears realists must wait / Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane to William Dean Howells

Maggie: an appreciation / William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells to Cora Crane

A case in point / William Dean Howells

The real Howells / Theodore Dreiser

Criticism and fiction / William Dean Howells

Productive conditions of American literature / Hamlin Garland

A youth in apparel that glittered / Stephen Crane

Ethics of literary art / Maurice Thompson

Interpretation of idealism / Hamilton Wright Mabie

Preface, summer in Arcady / James Lane Allen

Many red devils ran from my heart / Stephen Crane

Zola as a romantic writer / Frank Norris

Zola / Edwin Arlington Robinson

Realism in literature and art / Clarence Darrow.

Adam's diary / Mark Twain

Fable of the good fairy with the lorgnette, and why she got it good / George Ade

"Fast" girl / Frank Norris

Louisa / Mary Wilkins Freeman

A journey / Edith Wharton

A respectable woman / Kate Chopin

Problem of the West / Frederick Jackson Turner

Dying fires / Frank Norris

In cowboy land / Theodore Roosevelt

At Cheyenne / Eugene Field

Specimen Jones / Owen Wister

A man and some others / Stephen Crane

White silence / Jack London

Manly virtues and practical politics / Theodore Roosevelt

Frontier gone at last / Frank Norris

On the Anglo-Saxon / Finley Peter Dunne

How the other half lives / Jacob Riis

An East-side ramble / William Dean Howells

A pilgrimage and a vision / Benjamin Orange Flower

An experiment in misery / Stephen Crane

A hotel bedroom / Frank Norris

Men in the storm / Stephen Crane

Curious shifts of the poor / Theodore Dreiser.

Homestead and its perilous trades / Hamlin Garland

In the depths of a coal mine / Stephen Crane

A day-laborer at West Point / Walter A. Wyckoff

Under the lion's paw / Hamlin Garland

Man with the hoe / Edwin Markham

In his steps / Charles M. Sheldon

Trusts / James B. Weaver

Start of the Commonweal / Henry Vincent

Cross of gold speech / William Jennings Bryan

Strikers / Edward Bellamy

On a Populist convention / Finley Peter Dunne

Absurd effort to make the world over / William Graham Sumner

Unguarded gates / Thomas Bailey Aldrich

A traveler from Altruria / William Dean Howells

Fable of the copper and the jovial undergrads / George Ade

Society as I have found it / Ward McAllister

Society / John Jay Chapman

Old swimmin'-hole / James Whitcomb Riley

Vagabondia / Richard Hovey

Henry Adams to John Hay

Bon-Odori / Lafcadio Hearn

Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres / Henry Adams

Death of Rodriguez / Richard Harding Davis

Raising the regiment / Theodore Roosevelt

War memories / Stephen Crane

Fable of the unintentional heroes of Centreville / George Ade

A message to Garcia / Elbert Hubbard

Strenuous life / Theodore Roosevelt

Expansion / Finley Peter Dunne

Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League

On a soldier fallen in the Philippines / William Vaughn Moody

Real "white man's burden" / Ernest Crosby

One of the missing / Ambrose Bierce

Poor Joanna / Sarah Orne Jewett

Open boat / Stephen Crane

Nigger Jeff / Theodore Dreiser.