Download or read book Theodore Dreiser Recalled written by Donald Pizer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together for the first time, and in one convenient volume, published and unpublished memoirs about the American novelist Theodore Dreiser. The recollections of Dreiser's contemporaries bring to the fore the writer's politics, personal life, and literary reception. Donald Pizer is one of the world's leading scholars of Dreiser and of naturalism.
Download or read book Theodore Dreiser Recalled written by Donald Pizer and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together for the first time, published and unpublished memoirs about the American novelist Theodore Dreiser. The recollections of Dreiser's contemporaries bring to the fore the writer's politics, personal life, and literary reception. Donald Pizer is one of the world's leading scholars of Dreiser and of naturalism.
Download or read book Selected works of Theodore Dreiser written by Theodore Dreiser and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected works of Theodore Dreiser from the series "Best of the Best" is the book that everyone should read to understand themselves and each other. The authors and works for this book series were selected, as a result of numerous studies, analysis of the texts over the past 100 years and the demand for readers. It must be read in order to understand the world around us, its history, to recognize the heroes, to understand the winged expressions and jokes that come from these literary works. Reading these books will mean the discovery of a world of self-development and self-expression for each person. These books have been around for decades, and sometimes centuries, for the time they recreate, the values they teach, the point of view, or simply the beauty of words. This volume of the Best of the Best series includes famous works SISTER CARRIE JENNIE GERHARDT THE FINANCIER THE TITAN THE STOIC THE GENIUS AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY TWELVE MEN
Download or read book The Novels of Theodore Dreiser written by Donald Pizer and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the sources and composition of each of Dreiser's eight novels and interprets the themes and literary devices of his completed works
Download or read book Sister Carrie written by Theodore Dreiser and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 1999-03-02 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time "Theodore Dreiser is a man who, with the passage of time, is bound to loom larger and larger in the awakening aesthetic consciousness of America. Among all of our prose writers he is one of the few men of whom it may be said that he has . . . never been a trickster. If there is a modern movement in American prose writing, a movement toward greater courage and fidelity to life in writing, Theodore Dreiser is the pioneer and the hero of the movement."--Sherwood Anderson Long before she was seduced by the cautious and ordinary man whose life she would unravel with no malice and only intermittent interest, the young Carrie Meeber was seduced by the promise of the city--its vitality and reckless possibility, the thrill of material luxury, and the spectacle of power and industry. Banned on publication for its questionable morals, Sister Carrie is the great American novel of seduction, a masterpiece of insight into appetite and innocence. "Such a novel as Sister Carrie stands quite outside the brief traffic of the customary stage. It leaves behind an inescapable impression of bigness, of epic sweep and dignity. It is not a mere story, not a novel in the customary American meaning of the word; it is at once a psalm of life and a criticism of life. . . . [Dreiser's] aim is not merely to tell a tale; his aim is to show the vast ebb and flow of forces which sway and condition human destiny. The thing he seeks to do is to stir, to awaken, to move. One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched."--H. L. Mencken
Download or read book Selected Magazine Articles of Theodore Dreiser written by Theodore Dreiser and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Dreiser's early periodical writings covers his articles on American literary figures; art and music criticism; the American landscape; and science, technology, and industry; and his writings about the changing social conditions in American cities that he later drew on in his naturalistic novels.
Download or read book Theodore Dreiser Collected Works written by Theodore Dreiser and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 4736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and meticulously edited collection of Theodore Dreiser's greatest works includes:_x000D_ Novels:_x000D_ Sister Carrie_x000D_ Jennie Gerhardt_x000D_ The Financier_x000D_ The Titan_x000D_ The "Genius"_x000D_ An American Tragedy_x000D_ The Stoic_x000D_ Short Stories:_x000D_ Free and Other Stories_x000D_ Free_x000D_ McEwen of the Shining Slave Makers_x000D_ Nigger Jeff_x000D_ The Lost Phoebe_x000D_ The Second Choice_x000D_ A Story of Stories_x000D_ Old Rogaum and His Theresa_x000D_ Will You Walk Into My Parlor_x000D_ The Cruise of the Idlewild_x000D_ Married_x000D_ When the Old Century Was New_x000D_ The Mighty Burke_x000D_ Other Works:_x000D_ Twelve Men_x000D_ Hey Rub-a-Dub-Dub_x000D_ _x000D_
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser written by Leonard Cassuto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodore Dreiser is one of the most penetrating observers of the greatest period of social change the United States ever saw. Writing as America emerged as the world's wealthiest nation, Dreiser chronicled industrial and economic transformation and the birth of consumerism with an unmatched combination of detail, sympathy, and power. The specially commissioned essays collected in this volume are written by a leading team of scholars of American literature and culture. They establish 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.
Download or read book The Collected Works of Theodore Dreiser written by Theodore Dreiser and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 4738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected Works of Theodore Dreiser" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: Novels: Sister Carrie Jennie Gerhardt The Financier The Titan The "Genius" An American Tragedy The Stoic Short Stories: Free and Other Stories 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 The Mighty Burke Other Works: Twelve Men Hey Rub-a-Dub-Dub
Download or read book The Greatest Novels of Theodore Dreiser written by Theodore Dreiser and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 3915 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected Novels of Theodore Dreiser – 7 Modern Classics" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: Sister Carrie Jennie Gerhardt The Financier The Titan The "Genius" An American Tragedy The Bulwark The Stoic
Download or read book Newspaper Days written by Theodore Dreiser and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2000 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A candid biography of social writer, Theodore Dreiser, this work covers the period 1892-1899, just before Drieser begain writing his modern American novel, Sister Carrie.
Download or read book THEODORE DREISER Novels Short Stories Essays Biographical Works written by Theodore Dreiser and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-18 with total page 4737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "THEODORE DREISER – Ultimate Collection: 7 Novels & 12 Short Stories, With Essays & Biographical Works" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: Novels: Sister Carrie Jennie Gerhardt The Financier The Titan The "Genius" An American Tragedy The Stoic Short Stories: 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 The Mighty Burke Other Works: Twelve Men Hey Rub-a-Dub-Dub
Download or read book Sister Carrie written by Theodore Dreiser and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.'
Download or read book Theodore Dreiser His Autobiography written by Theodore Dreiser and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia written by Keith Newlin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-07-30 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a century, Theodore Dreiser has represented for many readers a rebellious modernism whose novels both critiqued the American dream and embodied a bleakly deterministic perception of life. His first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), was reluctantly published and then ignored by its publisher, who thought the book immoral. Another publisher withdrew his fifth novel, The Genius (1915), rather than face prosecution on obscenity charges. Dreiser did not enjoy widespread popularity and critical acclaim until his masterpiece, An American Tragedy, appeared in 1925. This reference is an authoritative guide to his life and works. Included are several hundred entries on each of Dreiser's books and short stories, as well as magazine and newspaper pieces he collected during his life. Noteworthy uncollected and posthumously collected works are given separate entries, as are major characters in the novels, family members, friends, and other persons important to understanding his writings. There are also entries on Dreiser's publishers, his major influences, the places and events important to his life, and the literary and social contexts of his works. Expert contributors wrote each of the entries, many of which cite works for further reading. The volume closes with a selected bibliography of works by and about Dreiser.
Download or read book Dawn written by Theodore Dreiser and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1998 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprints the 1931 Liveright edition without change except for the correction of a few misprints and misspellings. This section of what was envisioned as a multi-volume autobiography (only the first two volumes were completed) covers Dreiser's life up to his departure for St. Louis to work as a reporter for the Globe-Democrat. Reviewers of the original remarked that Dreiser had out-Rousseaued Rousseau in terms of frank personal revelations and his unblinking treatment of sex. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie Jennie Gerhardt Twelve Men LOA 36 written by Theodore Dreiser and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1987-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodore Dreiser was arguably the most important figure in the development of fiction in the twentieth century. In this Library of America volume are presented the first two novels and a little-known collection of biographical sketches by the man about whom H. L. Mencken said, “American writing, before and after his time, differed almost as much as biology before and after Darwin.” Dreiser grew up poor in a series of small Indiana towns, in a large German Catholic family dominated by his father’s religious fervor. At seventeen he moved to Chicago and eventually became a newspaper reporter there and in St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and New York. Reaction to his first book, Sister Carrie (1900), was not encouraging, and after suffering a nervous breakdown, he went on to a successful career editing magazines. In 1910 he resumed writing, and over the next fifteen years published fourteen volumes of fiction, drama, travel, autobiography, and essays. “Dreiser’s first great novel, 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,” Sinclair Lewis declared in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 1930. Carrie Meeber, an eighteen-year-old small-town girl drawn to bustling Chicago, becomes the passionless mistress of a good-humored traveling salesman and then of an infatuated saloon manager who leaves his family and elopes with her to New York. Dreiser’s brilliant, panoramic rendering of the two cities’ fashionable theaters and restaurants, luxurious hotels and houses of commerce, alongside their unemployment, labor violence, homelessness, degradation, and despair makes this the first urban novel on a grand scale. In a 1911 review, H. L. Mencken wrote, “Jennie Gerhardt is the best American novel I have ever read, with the lonesome but Himalayan exception of Huckleberry Finn.” Beautiful, vital, generous, but morally naïve and unconscious of social conventions, Jennie is a working-class woman who emerges superior to the succession of men who exploit her. There are no villains in this novel; in Dreiser’s view, everyone is victimized by the desires that the world excites but can never satisfy. Dreiser’s embracing compassion is felt in Twelve Men (1919), a collection of portraits of men he knew and admired. They range from “My Brother Paul” (Paul Dresser, vaudeville musical comedian and composer of “On the Banks of the Wabash” and “My Gal Sal”) to “Culhane, the Solid Man,” a sanatorium owner and former wrestler. Without sentiment but with honest emotion and respect for the bleak and unvarnished truth, Dreiser recalls these anomalous individuals and the twists of fate that shaped their lives. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
