Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre is a 1914 collection of essays, speeches and poems by the American anarchist and freethinker Voltairine de Cleyre, edited by Alexander Berkman with a biographical sketch by Hippolyte Havel. The writings explore individual liberty, social justice, women's emancipation and critiques of state and capitalism. It offers an introduction to early anarchist and feminist thought.
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SELECTED WORKS OF Voltairine de Cleyre Edited by ALEXANDER BERKMAN Biographical Sketch by HIPPOLYTE HAVEL NEW YORK MOTHER EARTH PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION 1914
Set up and electrotyped. Published May, 1914.
Contents Poems PAGE The Burial of My Past Self 17 Night on the Graves 18 The Christian's Faith 18 The Freethinker's Plea 22 To My Mother 26 Betrayed 27 Optimism 33 At the Grave in Waldheim 33 The Hurricane 34 Ut Sementem Feceris, Ita Metes 36 Bastard Born 36 Hymn 42 You and I 42 The Toast of Despair 44 In Memoriam—To DΏŧǡ D. LǼƽ 45 Out of the Darkness 47 Mary Wollstonecraft 49 The Gods and the People 50 John P. Altgeld 56 The Cry of the Unfit 56 In Memoriam—To Gŧƿ. M. M. TǡǼƽœǼƯƯ 58 The Wandering Jew 58
The Feast of Vultures 59 The Suicide's Defense 62 A Novel of Color 64 Germinal 65 "Light Upon Waldheim" 66 Love's Compensation 66 The Road Builders 68 Angiolillo 69 Ave et Vale 70 Marsh-Bloom 74 Written—in—Red 75
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