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Author: Theodore Dreiser Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher ISBN: 9780929587035 Category : Manners and customs Languages : en Pages : 0
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An extraordinary collection which reminds us how great a talent Dreiser was."He has no peer in the American short story....Among the moderns, there is almost no one capable of writing tales like these." -Howard Fast.
Author: Theodore Dreiser Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher ISBN: 9780929587035 Category : Manners and customs Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
An extraordinary collection which reminds us how great a talent Dreiser was."He has no peer in the American short story....Among the moderns, there is almost no one capable of writing tales like these." -Howard Fast.
Author: Theodore Dreiser Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486158071 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 113
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Five powerful stories: "Free," the story of a man trying, as his wife lies dying, to understand why he never found happiness in marriage plus "The Second Choice," "Married," "Nigger Jeff," and "The Lost Phœbe."
Author: Theodore Dreiser Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 257
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Doctor Storm looked at Mr. Haymaker as though he were very sorry for him—an old man long accustomed to his wife’s ways and likely to be made very unhappy by her untimely end; whereas Mr. Haymaker, though staring in an almost sculptural way, was really thinking what a farce it all was, what a dull mixture of error and illusion on the part of all. Here he was, sixty years of age, weary of all this, of life really—a man who had never been really happy in all the time that he had been married; and yet here was his wife, who from conventional reasons believed that he was or should be, and who on account of this was serenely happy herself, or nearly so. And this doctor, who imagined that he was old and weak and therefore in need of this loving woman’s care and sympathy and understanding! Unconsciously he raised a deprecating hand....FROM THE BOOKS.
Author: Theodore Dreiser Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812291530 Category : Languages : en Pages : 452
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Regarded as one of Dreiser's best novels, Jennie Gerhardt is here recaptured as it was originally written, restoring it to its complete, unexpurgated form.
Author: Thomas Fasano Publisher: Coyote Canyon Press ISBN: 0982129874 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 412
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Featuring 30 of the greatest short stories from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this new anthology begins with Washington Irving's tale "Rip Van Winkle" and ranges across more than one hundred years of storytelling, concluding with F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic, "Winter Dreams." Other selections include Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher," Melville's "Bartleby, The Scrivener," Harte's "The Luck of Roaring Camp," "To Build a Fire," by Jack London, "The Middle Years" by Henry James, plus stories by Mark Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charles Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Ambrose Bierce, Theodore Dreiser, and others. Perfect for classroom use, this outstanding collection of short stories will also prove popular with fiction readers everywhere.
Author: Paul Negri Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486421198 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 258
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Featuring 19 of the finest works in the American short-story tradition, this compilation includes: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, plus stories by Hawthorne, Twain, Cather, and others.
Author: Theodore Dreiser Publisher: Amereon Limited ISBN: 9780884115397 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 356
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Khat / Free / St. Columbia and the river / MeEwen of the shinig slave makers / The shadow / A Doer of the word / Nigger Jeff / The old neighborhood / Phantom Gold / My brother Paul / The lost Phoebe / Convention / Marriage--for one / The Prince who was a thief.
Author: Theodore Dreiser Publisher: ISBN: Category : Man-woman relationships Languages : en Pages : 448
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Jennie Gerhardt is a destitute young woman. While working in a hotel in Columbus, Ohio, Jennie meets George Brander, a United State Senator, who becomes infatuated with her. He helps her family and declares his wish to marry her. Jennie, grateful for his benevolence, agrees to sleep with him. He dies before they marry, and Jennie is pregnant. She gives birth to a daughter, Vesta, and moves to Cleveland with her mother. There she meets Lester Kane, a prosperous manufacturer's son, and their love must contend with continual dissaproval from his family.
Author: Theodore Dreiser
Author: Theodore Dreiser
Author: Theodore Dreiser
Author: Theodore Dreiser
Author: Theodore Dreiser
Author: Theodore Dreiser
Author: Thomas Fasano
Author: Paul Negri
Author: Theodore Dreiser
Author: Theodore Dreiser
Author: Theodore Dreiser