Quotations in this volume from the following works are reprinted by
permission of the publishers: The Call of the Wild by Jack London
(copyright 1903), published by The Macmillan Company; A Man's
Woman (copyright 1900), The Octopus (copyright 1901), The Pit (copy-
right 1903), Vandover and the Brute (copyright 1914), and McTeague
(copyright 1928), all by Frank Norris, published by Doubleday: & Com-
pany, Inc.; Frank Norris: A Biography by Franklin Walker (copy-
right 1932), published by Doubleday & Company, Inc.; Sister Carrie
(copyright 1900), Jennie Gerhardt (copyright 1911), The Financier
(copyright 1912), The Titan (copyright 1914), Hey-Rub-a-Dub (copy-
right 1919), and A Book about Myself (copyright 1922), all by Theodore Dreiser
, published by The World Publishing Co.; Winesburg, Ohio by
Sherwood Anderson (copyright 1919), published by The Viking Press,
Inc.; Beyond Desire by Sherwood Anderson (copyright 1932), published
by Liveright Publishing Corp.; Kit Brandon by Sherwood Anderson
(copyright 1936), published by Charles Scribner's Sons. Mr. Irving
Shepard granted permission to quote from A Daughter of the Snows by
Jack London (copyright 1902). John Dos Passos granted permission to
quote from his Manhattan Transfer (copyright 1925) and U.S.A. (copy-
right 1937).

© Copyright 1956 by the University of Minnesota

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Originally published in 1956 by
the University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis

Reprinted with the permission of the University of Minnesota Press

Reprinted in 1973 by Greenwood Press,
a division of Williamhouse-Regency Inc.

Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 73-10584

ISBN 0-8371-7017-6

Printed in the United States of America

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