Theodore Dreiser - Böcker

A tremendous bestseller when it was published in 1925, "An American Tragedy" is the culmination of Theodore Dreiser's elementally powerful fictional art. Revised reissue.

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A landmark in American literature, presented in its complete and unexpurgated version. Dreiser's unsparing story of a country girl's rise to riches as the mistress of a wealthy man marked the beginning of the naturalist movement in Ameri...

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A master of gritty naturalism, Theodore Dreiser explores the corruption of the American dream in The Financier. Frank Cowperwood, a fiercely ambitious businessman, emerges as the very embodiment of greed as he relentlessly seeks satisfaction in we...

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`When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.' The tale of Carrie Meeber's rise to stardom...

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Before publishing Dreiser's European travel book in 1913, the Century Company editors had heavily excised autobiographical reminiscences, philosophical speculations, revealing portraits of prominent figures, Dreiser's relationships with ...

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Thoroughly immersed in the turn-of-the-century art scene, Theodore Dreisers autobiographical The Genius explores the multiple conflicts between art and business, art and marriage, and between traditional and modern views of sexual morality. Despit...

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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 i...

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Theodore Dreiser led a long and controversial life, almost always pursuing some serious question, and not rarely pursuing women. This collection, the second volume of Dreiser correspondence to be published by the University of Illinois Press, gath...

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First published in 1912, Theodore Dreiser's third novel, The Financier, captures the ruthlessness and sparkle of the Gilded Age alongside the charismatic amorality of the power brokers and bankers of the mid-nineteenth century. This volume is...

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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 ...

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Dreiser's captivating portraits of turn-of-the-century America's famous figures In this volume, liberally seasoned with period illustrations, Yoshinobu Hakutani has collected and annotated a rich selection of Theodore Dreiser's pre-...

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"e;Theodore Dreiser, road warrior . . . Dreiser's account of his homecoming will touch a familiar and responsive chord in anyone who has undertaken one."e; -The Washington Post Book WorldBy 1914, Theodore Dreiser was a successful writer li...

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"Though far from the author's usual musings, this is actually a forerunner to the American road novel and very well could have been one of the inspirations for Jack Kerouac . . . this is a fine addition to public and academic libraries.&...

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"Though far from the author's usual musings, this is actually a forerunner to the American road novel and very well could have been one of the inspirations for Jack Kerouac . . . this is a fine addition to public and academic libraries.&...

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Young Caroline Meeber leaves home for the first time and experiences work, love, and the pleasures and responsibilities of independence in late-nineteenth-century Chicago and New York.

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The novel is followed by "A Note on the Text," which discusses the relationship between this editions text and that of the Pennsylvania Edition (1981), and a "Textual Appendix," which provides a generous sampling of the cuts Dr...

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An 18-year-old girl without money or connections ventures forth from her small town in search of a better life in Theodore Dreiser's revolutionary first novel. The chronicle of Carrie Meeber's rise from obscurity to fame--and the effects of her pr...

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Unexpurgated version of Dreiser's story of a country girl's rise to riches as the mistress of a wealthy man.

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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time"e;American writing, before and after Dreiser's time, differed almost as much as biology before and after Darwin,"e; said H. L. Mencken. Sister Carrie, Dreiser's great...

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This landmark novel about a small-town girl who runs away to the big city has been hailed as one of the greatest portraits of urban life in American literature. When Theodore Dreiser's epic first novel stormed onto the literary scene in 1900, it w...

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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...

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The conclusion to the trilogy based on a real railway tycoon's life, with "an amazingly intricate description of high-rolling 19th-century finance" (The Wall Street Journal). Based on the life of railway tycoon Charles Tyson Yerkes, the epic Trilo...

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A businessman leaves prison and heads to Chicago to regain his fortune-but his past follows close behind him-in this absorbing historical epic. Newly released from prison, Frank Cowperwood immediately dives back into the stock market after the Pan...

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A ruthlessly ambitious mogul finds his life derailed by the financial panic of 1873 in this classic novel by the author of An American Tragedy. Frank Cowperwood's story begins at an auction sale in Philadelphia, where an unassuming bid for seven c...

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A young Quaker finds material success-and moral challenge-after marrying into a wealthy Philadelphia family, in a novel by the author of Sister Carrie. Rufus and Hannah Barnes are good Quakers, highly respected in their new community of Dukla, Pen...

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This epic of class, ambition, and murder in the early twentieth century is "[a] masterpiece . . . America's Crime and Punishment " ( Kirkus Reviews ). Theodore Dreiser's  An American Tragedy is the story of a weak-willed young ...

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Dreiser's careful preservation of his papers bears new fruit with the publication of his personal diaries for the years 1902-26. This volume presents all seven of Dreiser's hitherto unpublished American diaries, the intermittent journals...

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The Sister Carrie edition that was published in 1900, long regarded as a watershed work in American fiction, was actually a censored misrepresentation of Drieser's original story. When, 80 years later, the Pennsylvania Edition first appeared,...

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