The Responsibilities Of The Novelist, And Other Literary Essays by Frank Norris (1903)

1. The responsibiities of the novelist
2. The true reward of the novelist 
3. The novel with a "purpose" 
4. Story-tellers vs. novelists 
5. The need of a literary conscience 
6. A neglected epic 
7. The frontier gone at last 
8. The great American novelist 
9. New York as a literary centre 
10. The American public and "popular" fiction 
11. Child stories for adults 
12. Newspaper criticisms and American fiction 
13. Novelists to order-while you wait 
14. The "nature" revival in literature 
15. The mechanicis of fiction 
16. Fiction writing as a business 
17. The "volunteer manuscript" 
18. Retail bookseller: literary dictator 
19. An American school of fiction? 
20. Novelists of the future 
21. A plea for romantic fiction 
22. A problem in fiction 
23. Why women should write the best novels 
24. Simplicity in art 
25. Salt and sincerity 
26. Bibliography, essays, articles, letters 
27. Short stories 
28. Poems published 
29. Books published

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