** Introduction

* POEMS

** THE BURIAL OF MY PAST SELF

** NIGHT ON THE GRAVES

** THE CHRISTIAN’S FAITH

** THE FREETHINKER’S PLEA

** TO MY MOTHER

** BETRAYED

** OPTIMISM

** AT THE GRAVE IN WALDHEIM

** THE HURRICANE[A]

** UT SEMENTEM FECERIS, ITA METES

** BASTARD BORN

** HYMN

** YOU AND I

** THE TOAST OF DESPAIR

** IN MEMORIAM

** OUT OF THE DARKNESS

** MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

** THE GODS AND THE PEOPLE

** JOHN P. ALTGELD

** THE CRY OF THE UNFIT

** IN MEMORIAM

** THE WANDERING JEW

** THE FEAST OF VULTURES

** THE SUICIDE’S DEFENSE

** A NOVEL OF COLOR

** GERMINAL

** “LIGHT UPON WALDHEIM”

** LOVE’S COMPENSATION

** THE ROAD BUILDERS

** ANGIOLILLO

** AVE ET VALE

** MARSH-BLOOM

** WRITTEN—IN—RED[A]

* ESSAYS

** The Dominant Idea

** Anarchism

** Anarchism and American Traditions

** Anarchism In Literature

** The Making of an Anarchist

** The Eleventh of November, 1887

** Crime and Punishment

** In Defense of Emma Goldman and the Right of Expropriation

** Direct Action

** The Paris Commune

** The Mexican Revolution

** Thomas Paine

** Dyer D. Lum

** Francisco Ferrer

** Modern Educational Reform

** Sex Slavery

** Literature the Mirror of Man

** The Drama of the Nineteenth Century

* SKETCHES AND STORIES

** A Rocket of Iron

** The Chain Gang

** The Heart of Angiolillo

** The Reward of an Apostate

** At the End of the Alley

*** II.—ALONE

** To Strive and Fail

** The Sorrows of the Body

** The Triumph of Youth

** The Old Shoemaker

** Where the White Rose Died