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CONTENTS
Introduction: Cultivating Taste in a Mass-Market World
1. Mr. Mabie Tells What to Read
2. The Compromise of Silas Lapham
3. James for the General Reader
4. Misreading The House of Mirth
5. The Comforts of Romanticism
Epilogue: Reading Up into the Twenty-first Century
Appendix B: “Novels Descriptive of American Life” (November 1908)