FOREWORD BY ALAN GRIBBEN INTRODUCTION NOTE ON TEXTS PART I. READING 1. Sunday-School Books 2. Playing "Robin Hood" by the Book 3. Reading on the River 4. Gift Book Perils 5. Revisiting Old Favorites PART II. OTHER AUTHORS 6.
Brush up Your Shakespeare! 7. Charles Dickens 8. Sir Walter Scott 9. Cooper's Literary Delirium Tremens 10. Emerson, Longfellow, & Holmes 11. Bret Harte 12. William Dean Howells 13. Humorists PART III.
THE BIBLE 14. Memorizing Bible Verses 15. The Heavy Burden of the Scriptures 16. Sixty Chapters a Day! 17. The Bible House 18. A Pious Politician 19. An Appetite for the Scriptures PART IV. POETS & POETRY 20.
Becoming a Poetry Connoisseur 21. The Poet Lariat: Lord Byron's Successor? 22. The Sweet Singer of Michigan 23. Obituary Poetry PART V. CURIOUS BOOKS 24. Chloroform in Print 25. Imperishable Perfection 26. A Strange & Incomprehensible Book 27.
A Paradise of the Intellect PART VI. WRITING 28. 'Prentice Work 29. Literary Début 30. One Method for Writing Books 31. The Finished Book 32. Jack-leg Novelist 33. Punctuation 34.
Dialect in Literature 35. Writing Autobiography PART VII. PIRACY, PLAGIARISM, & COPYRIGHT LAW 36. An English Pirate 37. Copyright Law 38. Unconscious Plagiarism. 39. Owed to a Grecian Urn? PART VIII.
CRITICS & REPORTERS 40. The Most Degraded Trade 41. Too Hateful to Be a Critic 42. Interviewing 43. A Silent Critic? PART IX. PUBLISHING 44. Antique Compositing 45. Welcome to Book Publishing 46.
Failing as a Publisher 47. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Lying 48. The Paige Compositor PART X. MARKETING 49. The Grant Memoirs 50. The Greatest Book of the Age! 51. Bookselling 52. Shopping for a Book 53.
Deep Discounts IMAGE CREDITS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX TO NAMES AND BOOK TITLES ABOUT THE EDITOR.