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Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Prologue

Introduction

I The popular cause (1885)

II The novels of revenge (1886-90)

III From the 'social question' to the defence of anarchism (1891-3)

IV The extreme limits (1892-4)

V The journalist of revolt (1894-8)

VI The Dreyfus passion (1898-9)

VII The theatre of ideas (1897-1908)

VIII The social conscience of the Belle Epoque (1900-7)

IX Dingo, or 'There's life in the old dog yet!' (1908-13)

X The pity of war (1914-17)

Appendix of Mirbeau's principal anarchist texts

Select bibliography

Index