Contents ix
Hamlin Garland (1860–1940) 623
Under the Lion’s Paw 625
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) 633
The Yellow Wallpaper 635
Edith Wharton (1862–1973) 646
The Muse’s Tragedy 648
Roman Fever 657
Mary Austin (1868–1934) 666
The Fakir 667
Frank Norris (1870–1902) 674
A Plea for Romantic Fiction 975
Stephen Crane (1871–1900) 678
A God in Wrath 680
Once I Saw Mountains Angry 680
A Man Saw a Ball of Gold in the Sky 680
God Lay Dead in Heaven 681
Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind 681
The Wayfarer 682
A Man Said to the Universe 682
The Trees in the Garden Rained Flowers 682
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets 684
The Open Boat 723
Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) 739
The Second Choice 741
Jack London (1876–1916) 753
To Build a Fire 755
Literary Renaissance 765
Twentieth-Century Renaissance 765
The Harlem Renaissance 768
Poetry between the Wars 768
Timeline: Literary Renaissance 770
New Directions: The First Wave 772
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935) 772
Luke Havergal 774
The House on the Hill 775