This novel about the effects of America's repressive moral climate was controversial in its day, and its availability to the public was delayed 12 years because of the "immorality" in Dreiser's sordid, realistic portrayal of the downfall of an innocent young woman who leaves her country town for the big city.
Dreiser's huge, sprawling, clumsy, unquestionably powerful novel tells a story that could have been lifted directly from a tabloid newspaper. Clyde Griffiths, the son of narrowly religious parents, escapes his Kansas City upbringing at 16 by getting a job in his uncle's collar factory in upstate New York. Clyde convinces himself that he will ...
Dreiser's autobiographical novel, about the downfall of a truly creative man destroyed by his own pride and arrogance, was first published in 1915. It was censored by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice and remained unavailable until Liveright reissued it in 1920.
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Dreiser's vivid novel, based loosely on the life of the ruthless and colorful Chicago financier C.T. Yerkes (1837-1905), is set in Philadelphia. His hero, Frank Algernon Cowperwood, rises dramatically in the world of finance and then, just as spectacularly, falls, in a story that serves as a showcase for Dreiser's naturalistic belief that, in the ...
Social writer Theodore Dreiser's candid autobiography * Covers the period 1892-1899, just before Dreiser began writing the first great modern American novel, Sister Carrie * An American classic, Newspaper Days offers a compelling view of American growth during the period * Gives an insider's account of the rough-and-tumble of turn of the century ...
In Dreiser's frank novel of attraction, exploitation, and power, the heroine submits to not one but two wealthy men in an attempt to help her family out of crushing poverty. The novel was extensively altered before publication because of its sexual openness and its criticisms of organized religion.
This Norton Critical Edition features the 1900 Doubleday Page text of the novel. "Backgrounds and Sources" reprints excerpts from Dreiser's autobiographies, and a documentary account, drawn largely from Dreiser's correspondence with Frank Norris, Arthur Henry, Walter H.Page and F.N.Doubleday, discusses the supposed "suppression" of Sister Carrie ...
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (1871-1945) was an American author of the naturalist school, known for dealing with the gritty reality of life. His first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), tells the story of a woman who flees her country life for the city (Chicago) and falls into a wayward life. His second novel, Jennie Gerhardt, was published the ...
Dreiser's huge, sprawling, clumsy, unquestionably powerful novel tells a story that could have been lifted directly from a tabloid newspaper. Clyde Griffiths, the son of narrowly religious parents, escapes his Kansas City upbringing at 16 by getting a job in his uncle's collar factory in upstate New York. Clyde convinces himself that he will ...
1918. Contents: Free; McEwen of the Shining Slave Makers; Nigger Jeff; The Lost Phoebe; The Second Choice; A Story of Stories; Old Rogaum and His Theresa; Will You Walk Into My Parlor; The Cruise of the Idlewild; Married; When the Old Century Was New.
Text extracted from opening pages of book: A BOOK ABOUT MYSELF THEODORE DREISER -, -, *-r BONI AND LIVERIOHT A BOOK ABOUT MYSELF A BOOK ABOUT MYSELF CHAPTER I DURING the year 1890 I had been formulating my first dim notion as to what it was I wanted to do in life. For two years and more I had been reading Eugene Field's Sharps and Flats/ 7 a ...
Collected in this volume are reviews and opinion pieces that Dreiser published in "Ev'ry Month" a popular women's magazine that he edited from October 1895 to September 1897. The columns constitute the earliest records of Dreiser's thoughts on subjects that would become central to his fiction.
This edition of Dreiser's novel is the first publication of the entire, unexpurgated, uncensored text. It includes a preface and acknowledgements, the text of the novel, historical/critical commentary and accompanying notes.
Dreiser's captivating portraits of turn-of-the-century America's famous figures Before coming to national attention for his novel "Sister Carrie, " Theodore Dreiser worked for nearly a decade as a magazine editor and freelance writer. Now in paperback, "Art, Music, and Literature, 1897-1902" collects a rich selection of Dreiser's brief, colorful ...
Before coming to national attention for his novel "Sister Carrie", Theodore Dreiser worked for nearly a decade as a magazine editor and freelance writer. In this volume, liberally seasoned with period illustrations, Yoshinobu Hakutani has collected and annotated a rich selection of Dreiser's early writings on the cultural milieu of his day. In ...
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