Part I: Apprenticeship in the 1890's

Introduction: the blizzard

Newspapers and the Bowery

Magazines and pictures

What to do?

"Curious shifts of the poor"

Part II: Sister Carrie

Introduction: summer song

Broadway realism

Theater lights

Midwest time and talk

Plants and insects

Part III: Turn of the century

Introduction: transition

New psychology

Aftermath

Twelve men

Toward An American tragedy

Part IV: An American tragedy

Introduction: a case of murder

Mr. Badman

Clyde Griffiths: "The mechanism called man"

On the frontiers of consciousness

Chemism and Freudianism

Arabian nights

Pure religion and undefiled.