Frontmatter
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction: Parody and Realism
Chapter I. Love and Death in the Slums
Chapter II. The Failure on the Barroom Floor
Chapter III. A Definition of the War Novel
Chapter IV. The Bitterness of Battle
Chapter V. The Romances That Failed
Chapter VI. The Destructive Element
Chapter VII. The Village Virus
Chapter VIII. The Crucible of Childhood
Chapter IX. The Gunfighters
Chapter X. Death on the Plains
Notes
Index