Table of Contents:
  • An American novelist, Sinclair Lewis
  • Sherwood Anderson
  • The Spoon River anthology
  • Hermann Melville
  • Preface to Moby Dick
  • Preface to Dark Laughter
  • O. Henry, or, The literary trick
  • John Dos Passos and the American novel
  • Dreiser and his social battle
  • Interpretation of Walt Whitman, poet
  • Faulkner, a bad pupil of Anderson
  • The fictionalized biographies of Sinclair Lewis
  • Preface to the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
  • Preface to "Benito Cereno"
  • Preface to Three lives
  • Additions to the second preface to Moby-Dick
  • The dead at Spoon River
  • American ripeness
  • A useful book
  • A Negro speaks to us
  • Yesterday and today
  • The great American anguish
  • Preface to Defoe, Moll Flanders
  • Preface to Dickens, David Copperfield
  • Preface to Conrad, 'Twixt land and sea
  • Robert Louis Stevenson.