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Author: Theodore Dreiser Publisher: The Floating Press ISBN: 177545696X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 442
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Dive into a gripping historical romance from master of naturalism Theodore Dreiser. Things appear to be looking up for downtrodden maid Jennie Gerhardt when she meets and falls in love with a dashing senator. However, soon after their romance blossoms, her new lover is ripped away, leaving Jennie destitute and pregnant. How will she make it in the world all alone?
Author: Theodore Dreiser Publisher: The Floating Press ISBN: 177545696X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 442
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Dive into a gripping historical romance from master of naturalism Theodore Dreiser. Things appear to be looking up for downtrodden maid Jennie Gerhardt when she meets and falls in love with a dashing senator. However, soon after their romance blossoms, her new lover is ripped away, leaving Jennie destitute and pregnant. How will she make it in the world all alone?
Author: Theodore Dreiser Publisher: Modern Library ISBN: 0679641386 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 560
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time 'American writing, before and after Dreiser's time, differed almost as much as biology before and after Darwin,' said H. L. Mencken. Sister Carrie, Dreiser's great first novel, transformed the conventional 'fallen woman' story into a bold and truly innovative piece of fiction when it appeared in 1900. Naïve young Caroline Meeber, a small-town girl seduced by the lure of the modern city, becomes the mistress of a traveling salesman and then of a saloon manager, who elopes with her to New York. Both its subject matter and Dreiser's unsparing, nonjudgmental approach made Sister Carrie a controversial book in its time, and the work retains the power to shock readers today. 'Sister Carrie came to housebound and airless America like a great free Western wind, and to our stuffy domesticity gave us the first fresh air since Mark Twain and Whitman,' noted Sinclair Lewis. 'Dreiser enlarged, willy-nilly, by a kind of historical accident if you will, the range of American literature,' observed Robert Penn Warren. '[Sister Carrie] is a vivid and absorbing work of art.'
Author: Theodore Dreiser Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 0252090128 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 353
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Theodore Dreiser staked his reputation on fearless expression in his fiction, but he never was more outspoken than when writing about American politics, which he did prolifically. Although he is remembered primarily as a novelist, the majority of his twenty-seven books were nonfiction treatises. To Dreiser, everything was political. His sense for the hype and hypocrisies of politics took shape in reasoned but emphatic ruminations in his fiction and nonfiction on the hopes and disappointments of democracy, the temptations of nationalism and communism, the threat and trumpets of war, and the role of writers in resisting and advancing political ideas. Spanning a period of American history from the Progressive Era to the advent of the Cold War, this generous volume collects Dreiser's most important political writings from his journalism, broadsides, speeches, private papers, and long out-of-print nonfiction books. Touching on the Great Depression, the New Deal, and both World Wars as well as Soviet Russia and the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, these writings exemplify Dreiser's candor and his penchant for championing the defenseless and railing against corruption. Positing Dreiser as an essential public intellectual who addressed the most important issues of the first half of the twentieth century, these writings also navigate historical terrain with prescient observations on topics such as religion, civil rights, national responsibility, individual ethics, global relations, and censorship that remain particularly relevant to a contemporary audience. Editor Jude Davies provides historical commentaries that frame these selections in the context of his other writings, particularly his novels.
Author: Theodore Dreiser Publisher: Everest Media LLC ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 650
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Philadelphia. A city on the cusp of transformation. Enter Frank Cowperwood, a young man driven by an insatiable hunger for wealth and power. Theodore Dreiser's gripping novel, *The Financier*, is a tale of ambition, desire, and the ruthless pursuit of the American Dream. Will Frank navigate the cutthroat world of finance or be consumed by his own ambition? Listen as his journey unfolds, a tale of love, betrayal, and the intoxicating allure – and devastating consequences – of chasing fortune at any cost.
Author: Theodore Dreiser Publisher: e-artnow ISBN: 8026894936 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 896
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Ambitious, but ill-educated, naïve, and immature, Clyde Griffiths is raised by poor and devoutly religious parents to help in their street missionary work. As a young adult, Clyde must, to help support his family, take menial jobs as a soda jerk, then a bellhop at a prestigious Kansas City hotel. There, his more sophisticated colleagues introduce him to bouts of social drinking and sex with prostitutes. Enjoying his new lifestyle, Clyde becomes infatuated with manipulative Hortense Briggs, who takes advantage of him. After being in a car accident in which a young girl loses her life, Clyde is forced to run away from the town in search for the new life.
Author: Leonard Cassuto Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521894654 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 268
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The specially commissioned essays collected in this volume establish new parameters for both scholarly and classroom discussion of Dreiser. This Companion provides fresh perspectives on the frequently read classics, Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy, as well as on topics of perennial interest, such as Dreiser's representation of the city and his prose style. The volume investigates topics such as his representation of masculinity and femininity, and his treatment of ethnicity. It is the most comprehensive introduction to Dreiser's work available.
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 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: Donald Pizer Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 0816607680 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 396
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Investigates the sources and composition of each of Dreiser's eight novels and interprets the themes and literary devices of his completed works
Author: Theodore Dreiser Publisher: The Floating Press ISBN: 1775456978 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 347
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Best remembered for being one of the leading figures in the school of fiction writing known as naturalism, American author Theodore Dreiser got his professional start as a journalist, and he brings his love of research and detail to this collection of biographical essays celebrating the lives and contributions of 12 people who influenced him.