Theodore Dreiser 
Twelve men 

I — Peter

II — A Doer of the Word

III — My Brother Paul

IV — The Country Doctor

V — Culhane, the Solid Man

VI — A True Patriarch

VII — De Maupassant, Jr.

VIII — The Village Feudists

IX — Vanity, Vanity

X — The Mighty Rourke

XI — A Mayor and His People

XII — W.L.S.