Theodore Dreiser
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The Financier (1912) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser. The first installment of Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire, The Financier has endured as a classic of naturalist fiction and remains a powerful example of social critique over a century after its publication. Followed by The Titan (1914) and The Stoic (1947), The Financier captures the greed at the heart of the Gilded Age, a time when tycoons rose with total impunity to take over swaths of American industry....
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Based upon the actual incident, this is the story of Clyde Griffiths, an ordinary boy driven by passion and ambition into a tragic conflict with the conventions and inequities of society. Rising steadily toward his goal of wealth and social prestige, Clyde unexpectedly learns that Roberta, a factory girl with whom he had had an illicit love affair, is pregnant. Desperately entrapped, he kills her. He is arrested and brought to trial in a climax of...
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Dissatisfied with life in her rural Wisconsin life, 18-year-old Caroline "Sister Carrie" Meeber moves to Chicago to live with her sister and work in a shoe factory. It doesn't take long for her to realize that factory work is hard and dirty. After becoming ill and losing her job, Carrie is taken in by a rich, handsome man who pays for her apartment and finds her work as an actress. But Carrie soon finds another man to take care of her, who happens...
4) The titan
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The sequel to Dreiser's The financier, which continues the saga of the ups and downs in the life of Frank Cowperwood, based on the life of Charles Tyson Yerkes. A trilogy of desire was completed by The stoic, published posthumously in 1947.
6) The "genius"
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Semi-autobiographical novel about Eugene Witla, a talented painter of strong sexual desires who grapples with his commitment to his art and the force of his erotic needs. The book sold 8,000 copies in the months immediately following publication, but encountered legal difficulties when it was declared obscene shortly after.
8) Twelve Men
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Duke Classics
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2012
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Although world-famous for his novels Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt, Theodore Dreiser was also highly accomplished in journalism, autobiography, and travel writing. In 1919, having recently accepted the publishing contract of a new publisher, Dreiser proposed to publish a "book of characters" that would collect twelve biographical sketches of individuals who were major influences on Dreiser, both as a man and as a writer. The resulting narratives...
10) The stoic
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The story of the construction of the London subway system, the "tube."
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By 1914, Theodore Dreiser was a successful writer with an international reputation, as well as a fixture on the New York literary scene. He had not been back to Indiana, his home state, in over twenty years when he was approached by his friend Franklin Booth, a respected and very successful artist, to make the trip together by automobile. The result is a narrative brimming with detail and the first modern work of American road literature, capturing...
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This collection presents eleven of Dreiser's best tales, ranging from trenchant social analysis to penetrating character study.One of Dreiser's most powerful stories, "N****r Jeff" was occasioned when Dreiser was forced to witness a lynching, an experience that disturbed him deeply.H. L. Mencken was a great champion of Dreiser during his lifetime, declaring that:"He is a great artist, and that no other American of his generation left so wide and handsome...
13) Short stories
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Five powerful and original stories: "Free," "The Second Choice," "Married," "Nigger Jeff," and "The Lost Phoebe."
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The most productive period of Theodore Dreiser writing life began with the five months he spent in Europe between 1911 and 1912. A Traveler at Forty is the detailed account of his travels during that time, including the exploration of his ancestral roots in Germany.
15) El Estoico
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El estoico nos trae el desenlace de la historia de Frank Cowperwood, el protagonista de la Trilogía del deseo, inspirada en la vida real del magnate de los negocios estadounidense Charles T. Yerkes. La obra relata los años de senectud de un hombre enérgico, que si bien ha conseguido la riqueza y el control de grandes negocios, llega a su vejez con un logro pendiente: el reconocimiento de su valía por la alta sociedad de su país. Y para colmo,...
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El financiero relata la historia de Frank Cowperwood, un hombre nacido para el éxito en el mundo de los negocios de la florenciente sociedad americana de los años sesenta y setenta del siglo xix. Su extremada ambición, el gusto por el lujo, las mujeres y el deseo de poder conducen al protagonista a una especulación despiadada, para lo que se apoya en banqueros, financieros y funcionarios, cuyo desfile a lo largo de la novela muestra un auténtico...
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The saga of a Gilded Age mogul's rise and fall, inspired by a real historical figure, from the author of An American Tragedy.
Inspired by the life of railway tycoon Charles Tyson Yerkes, these three novels weave a tale of American capitalism in the late nineteenth century. Included in this volume are:
The Financier: Ruthlessly ambitious businessman Frank Cowperwood finds his life derailed by the financial panic of 1873.
The Titan: Cowperwood leaves...
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The "Genius" is a semi-autobiographical novel by Theodore Dreiser, first published in 1915. The story concerns Eugene Witla, a talented painter of strong sexual desires who grapples with his commitment to his art and the force of his erotic needs. The book sold 8,000 copies in the months immediately following publication but encountered legal difficulties when it was declared potentially obscene. Dreiser's publisher was nervous about continuing publication...
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A Traveler at Forty illustrated Theodore Dreiser - A Traveler at Forty ."rises completely out of the commonplace, and becomes something new, illuminating and heretical. It differs enormously from the customary travel books: it is not a mere description of places and people, but a revelation of their impingement upon an exceptional and almost eccentric personality." - H. L. Mencken "For everywhere [Dreiser] goes he watches people with a terrible curiosity...