Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre. Voltairine De Cleyre

AND STORIES

       A Rocket of Iron

       The Chain Gang

       The Heart of Angiolillo

       The Reward of an Apostate

       At the End of the Alley

       To Strive and Fail

       The Sorrows of the Body

       The Triumph of Youth

       The Old Shoemaker

       Where the White Rose Died

Essays
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The Dominant Idea	79
Anarchism	96
Anarchism and American Traditions	118
Anarchism in Literature	136
The Making of an Anarchist	154
The Eleventh of November, 1887	164
Crime and Punishment	173
In Defense of Emma Goldman	205
Direct Action	220
The Paris Commune	243
The Mexican Revolution	253
Thomas Paine	276
Dyer D. Lum	284
Francisco Ferrer	297
Modern Educational Reform	321
Sex Slavery	342
Literature the Mirror of Man	359
The Drama of the Nineteenth Century	381

Sketches and Stories
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A Rocket of Iron	409
The Chain Gang	414
The Heart of Angiolillo	420
The Reward of an Apostate	433
At the End of the Alley—I	437
Alone—II	441
To Strive and Fail	446
The Sorrows of the Body	451
The Triumph of Youth	454
The Old Shoemaker	464
Where the White Rose Died	466

Introduction

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      "Nature has the habit of now and then producing a type of human being far in advance of the times; an ideal for us to emulate; a being devoid of sham, uncompromising, and to whom the truth is sacred; a being whose selfishness is so large that it takes in the whole human race and treats self only as one of the great mass; a being keen to sense all forms of wrong, and powerful in denunciation of it; one who can reach into the future and draw it nearer. Such a being was Voltairine de Cleyre."

      What could be added to this splendid tribute by Jay Fox to the memory of Voltairine de Cleyre? These admirable words express the sentiments of all the friends and comrades of that remarkable woman whose whole life was dedicated to a dominant idea.

      Like many other women in public life, Voltairine de Cleyre was