Marxists on Literature. An Anthology

- Thomson- Speech and Thought
- Thomson- The Art of Poetry
- Plekhanov- On the Social Basis of Style
- Caudwell- English Poets: (1) The period of Primitive Accumulation
- Matthews- Othello and the Dignity of Man
- Craig- Towards Laws of Literary Development
- Kiernan- Wordsworth and the People
- Marx- Letter to Lassalle (19 apr 1859)
- Engels- Letter to Lassalle (18 may 1859)
- Kettle- Dickens and the popular tradition
- Mitchell- Aesthetic Problems of the Development of the Proletarian-Revolutionary Novel in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- Engels- Letter to Minna Kautsky (26 nov 1885)
- Plekhanov- On "Art for Art's Sake"
- Lukács- Tolstoy and the Development of Realism
- Lenin- Articles on Tolstoy
- Trotsky- The Formalist School of Poetry and Marxism
- Lukács- Franz Kafka or Thomas Mann?
- Lu- Some Thoughts on our New Literature
- Lu- A Glance at Shanghai Literature
- Brecht- Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction
- Brecht- The Popular and the Realistic
- Brecht- On Rhymeless Verse with Irregular Rhythms
- Serge- The Writer's Conscience
- Adereth- What is "Littérature Engagée"?
- Fischer- The Loss and Discovery of Reality
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Appendices:
- Zhdanov- From "Report on the journals Zvezda and Leningrad" (1947)
- CC of the PCF- Extracts from the Resolution (1966)