CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN NOVELISTS

1900-1920


BY

CARL VAN DOREN



1922




To

FREDA KIRCHWEY




PREFACE


_The American Novel_, published last year, undertook to trace the
progress of a literary type in the United States from its beginnings to
the end of the nineteenth century; _Contemporary American Novelists_
undertakes to study the type as it has existed during the first two