Bøger af Theodore Dreiser

Carrie kommer med tog til Chicago fra Wisconsin. Hun skal bo hos sin søster og dennes nærige og tvære protestantiske mand af skandinaviskafstamning. Det viser sig at være svært at tjene til dagen og vejen – og endnu sværere at få en arbejdsplads – når man ingenting kan. Og stemningen i lejlighedens små rum bliver efterhånden ubærlig for hende at være i.Hun forsøger at lette humøret ved at tage i teateret. Her støder hun tilfældigt ind i Drouet, som hun også talte med i toget på vej til storbyen.Han giver Carrie et måltid mad og en 20’er til at købe noget pænt til sig selv for. Snart lejer han også et par værelser til dem: ”Vi kan jo bare sige, at du er min søster!” som han siger, for gifte sig kan han desværre ikke. Nu får Carrie for alvor lagt de provinsielle vaner af sig, klæder sig fint og omgås jetsettet. Det bliver et trin mod hendes selvstændighed, men først skal hun gøre sig mange flere erfaringer …Dreiser beskriver på sin fine og banebrydende amerikansk naturalistiske facon, hvor svært det er at forcere skellene mellem mænd og kvinder, rig og fattig i det amerikanske samfund. Hvor stor en kamp det kan være at tjene til livets opretholdelse – og hvor meningsløst den samme kamp kan synes, når man har til overflod og er ensom. Prisen for ens egen ret kan være høj.Theodore Dreisers forfatterskab anses for at være i liga med F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Don Passos og Sherwood Anderson blandt moderne amerikanske forfattere.Søster Carrie er oversat af vores egen Tom Kristensen. Han beskrevDreisers bøger som nogen, man oplever, mere end man læser dem.

Carrie har succes i et dillettantstykke på teateret. Igennem Drouet møder hun den smukke og velansete Hurstwood, der betages fuldstændig af hende. De forelsker sig. Uden Carrie ved det, stjæler Hurstwood af kassen på sit arbejde og bortfører hende. De bosætter sig i New York, uden at Hurstwood finder noget job. I takt med at pengene slipper op, falder den smukke mand fra hinanden. Til gengæld begynder Carrie at få arbejde i teaterverdenen. Igen får hun mulighed for at slippe ud af en ellers så grå hverdag. Men er dét lykken?Dreiser beskriver på sin fine og banebrydende amerikansk naturalistiske facon, hvor svært det er at forcere skellene mellem mænd og kvinder, rig og fattig i det amerikanske samfund. Hvor stor en kamp det kan være at tjene til livets opretholdelse – og hvor meningsløst den samme kamp kan synes, når man har til overflod og er ensom. Prisen for ens egen ret kan være høj.Theodore Dreisers forfatterskab anses for at være i liga med F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Don Passos og Sherwood Anderson blandt moderne amerikanske forfattere.Søster Carrie er oversat af vores egen Tom Kristensen. Han beskrev Dreisers bøger som nogen, man oplever, mere end man læser dem.

Vi er i USA, lige efter år 1900. Landet er i en brydningstid; fremtidstroen hersker, mens traditioner stadig står stærkt, men dog er under pres fra de små forandringens sprækker, der pibler frem overalt.Handlingen centrerer sig omkring den unge, fattige pige Jennie og industrimanden Lester Kane. Men bogens tredje hovedperson er et amerikansk samfund i dyb forandring … Den unge arbejderklassedatter Jennie Gerhardt arbejder på et hotel i Columbus, Ohio, for at bidrage til sin fattige families indkomme. Her møder hun en rig gammel senator og forelsker sig i ham og de muligheder, han giver hende for socialt avancement. Senatoren dør uventet, og det viser sig, at Jennie er blevet gravid. Hendes familie slår hånden af hende, da hun jo har brudt med enhver moral, der gælder for unge, ugifte piger. Hun føder datteren Vesta, som efterlades hos bedsteforældrene, da Jennie flytter til Cleveland for at være i huset hos en prominent familie.Her forfølger hun arbejderpigens udgave af den amerikanske drøm: Hun møder den unge industrimand Lester Kane, og forelskelsen er gensidig. Kane, der ikke ved, at hun har en datter, ønsker at gifte sig med Jennie, men da hans familie sætter sig stærkt imod dette giftermål, beslutter han i stedet, at hun skal være hans elskerinde. Som elskende par bor de lykkeligt sammen i Chicago, men Jennies fortid lurer …Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945), amerikaner med tysk immigrantbaggrund, lyriker, journalist, romanforfatter, erklæret socialist og talsmand for arbejderklassen. Rosenkilde & Bahnhof udgiver nu denne amerikanske klassiker i Tom Kristensens eminente, stilsikre danske oversættelse fra 1929. Romanen udgives i to bind.Jennie Gerhardt (1911) er en roman i verdensklasse og var med til at slå Dreisers navn fast som en af de ypperste blandt de amerikanske naturalister i det 20. århundrede. Dreiser efterlod en betydelig litterær arv og inspirerede en hel generation af amerikanske forfattere, der fulgte efter ham, lige fra Sherwood Anderson og F. Scott Fitzgerald til John Dos Passos.

Vi er i USA, lige efter år 1900. Landet er i en brydningstid; fremtidstroen hersker, mens traditioner stadig står stærkt, men dog er under pres fra de små forandringens sprækker, der pibler frem overalt.Handlingen centrerer sig omkring den unge, fattige pige Jennie og industrimanden Lester Kane. Men bogens tredje hovedperson er et amerikansk samfund i dyb forandring … Den unge arbejderklassedatter Jennie Gerhardt arbejder på et hotel i Columbus, Ohio, for at bidrage til sin fattige families indkomme. Her møder hun en rig gammel senator og forelsker sig i ham og de muligheder, han giver hende for socialt avancement. Senatoren dør uventet, og det viser sig, at Jennie er blevet gravid. Hendes familie slår hånden af hende, da hun jo har brudt med enhver moral, der gælder for unge, ugifte piger. Hun føder datteren Vesta, som efterlades hos bedsteforældrene, da Jennie flytter til Cleveland for at være i huset hos en prominent familie.Her forfølger hun arbejderpigens udgave af den amerikanske drøm: Hun møder den unge industrimand Lester Kane, og forelskelsen er gensidig. Kane, der ikke ved, at hun har en datter, ønsker at gifte sig med Jennie, men da hans familie sætter sig stærkt imod dette giftermål, beslutter han i stedet, at hun skal være hans elskerinde. Som elskende par bor de lykkeligt sammen i Chicago, men Jennies fortid lurer …Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945), amerikaner med tysk immigrantbaggrund, lyriker, journalist, romanforfatter, erklæret socialist og talsmand for arbejderklassen. Rosenkilde & Bahnhof udgiver nu denne amerikanske klassiker i Tom Kristensens eminente, stilsikre danske oversættelse fra 1929. Romanen udgives i to bind.Jennie Gerhardt (1911) er en roman i verdensklasse og var med til at slå Dreisers navn fast som en af de ypperste blandt de amerikanske naturalister i det 20. århundrede. Dreiser efterlod en betydelig litterær arv og inspirerede en hel generation af amerikanske forfattere, der fulgte efter ham, lige fra Sherwood Anderson og F. Scott Fitzgerald til John Dos Passos.

Theodore Dreiser skrev på sit hovedværk, En amerikansk tragedie, i elleve år, og denne roman skulle blive et af de betydeligste værker i den amerikanske naturalisme. Her koncentrerede Dreiser essensen af sin viden om og sit syn på det amerikanske samfund i begyndelsen af det 20. århundrede og kombinerede den med sin store indsigt i det menneskelige sind og de bevæggrunde, der skjuler sig der. Romanen vakte enorm opsigt ved sin udgivelse i 1925 og rystede det samfund, den så skånselsløst afslørede – den udstillede den forløjede dobbeltmoral og det begær efter penge og materielle goder, som lå bag den amerikanske drøm.Hovedpersonen i romanen er en ganske almindelig ung mand – Clyde Griffiths. Han er fra fattige kår og opvokset i en strengt religiøs familie – som så mange amerikanere i århundredets første år. I dette self made-samfund stræber han nu efter en vej op ad den sociale rangstige. Vejen viser sig at gå via storbylivet, et job på et hotel og fristelsen fra vin, spiritus og kvinder. Tragedien indtræffer, da han opdager, at hans hidtidige forlovede, Roberta, står i vejen for den økonomiske fremgang, som kvinden Sondra kan tilbyde ham. Clyde støder hovedet mod samfundets snærende mure, bliver endda morder uden egentlig at ville det, fanges i et ubønhørligt retssystems barske net og udleveres til den sensationslystne presses nådesløse spotlight.Dreiser fandt inspiration til romanens mordintrige i en i samtiden stærkt omtalt retssag fra 1906 – ’The Murder of Grace Brown’, hvor en ung syerske blev myrdet i staten New York.Når man har læst En amerikansk tragedie til ende, kan man kun give dens danske oversætter ret i, at der er bøger, man læser, og der er bøger, man oplever. Denne roman hører til sidstnævnte kategori. En amerikansk tragedie var den roman, der for alvor slog Dreisers navn fast som en af de ypperste blandt de amerikanske naturalister i det 20. århundrede. Dreiser efterlod en betydelig litterær arv og inspirerede en hel generation af amerikanske forfattere, der fulgte efter ham, lige fra Sherwood Anderson og F. Scott Fitzgerald til John Dos Passos.Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945), amerikaner med tysk immigrantbaggrund, lyriker, journalist, romanforfatter, erklæret socialist og talsmand for arbejderklassen.Rosenkilde & Bahnhof udgiver nu denne amerikanske klassiker i Tom Kristensens eminente, stilsikre danske oversættelse fra 1928. Romanen udgives i tre bind.

Theodore Dreiser skrev på sit hovedværk, En amerikansk tragedie, i elleve år, og denne roman skulle blive et af de betydeligste værker i den amerikanske naturalisme. Her koncentrerede Dreiser essensen af sin viden om og sit syn på det amerikanske samfund i begyndelsen af det 20. århundrede og kombinerede den med sin store indsigt i det menneskelige sind og de bevæggrunde, der skjuler sig der. Romanen vakte enorm opsigt ved sin udgivelse i 1925 og rystede det samfund, den så skånselsløst afslørede – den udstillede den forløjede dobbeltmoral og det begær efter penge og materielle goder, som lå bag den amerikanske drøm.Hovedpersonen i romanen er en ganske almindelig ung mand – Clyde Griffiths. Han er fra fattige kår og opvokset i en strengt religiøs familie – som så mange amerikanere i århundredets første år. I dette self made-samfund stræber han nu efter en vej op ad den sociale rangstige. Vejen viser sig at gå via storbylivet, et job på et hotel og fristelsen fra vin, spiritus og kvinder. Tragedien indtræffer, da han opdager, at hans hidtidige forlovede, Roberta, står i vejen for den økonomiske fremgang, som kvinden Sondra kan tilbyde ham. Clyde støder hovedet mod samfundets snærende mure, bliver endda morder uden egentlig at ville det, fanges i et ubønhørligt retssystems barske net og udleveres til den sensationslystne presses nådesløse spotlight.Dreiser fandt inspiration til romanens mordintrige i en i samtiden stærkt omtalt retssag fra 1906 – ’The Murder of Grace Brown’, hvor en ung syerske blev myrdet i staten New York.Når man har læst En amerikansk tragedie til ende, kan man kun give dens danske oversætter ret i, at der er bøger, man læser, og der er bøger, man oplever. Denne roman hører til sidstnævnte kategori. En amerikansk tragedie var den roman, der for alvor slog Dreisers navn fast som en af de ypperste blandt de amerikanske naturalister i det 20. århundrede. Dreiser efterlod en betydelig litterær arv og inspirerede en hel generation af amerikanske forfattere, der fulgte efter ham, lige fra Sherwood Anderson og F. Scott Fitzgerald til John Dos Passos.Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945), amerikaner med tysk immigrantbaggrund, lyriker, journalist, romanforfatter, erklæret socialist og talsmand for arbejderklassen.Rosenkilde & Bahnhof udgiver nu denne amerikanske klassiker i Tom Kristensens eminente, stilsikre danske oversættelse fra 1928. Romanen udgives i tre bind.

Theodore Dreiser skrev på sit hovedværk, En amerikansk tragedie, i elleve år, og denne roman skulle blive et af de betydeligste værker i den amerikanske naturalisme. Her koncentrerede Dreiser essensen af sin viden om og sit syn på det amerikanske samfund i begyndelsen af det 20. århundrede og kombinerede den med sin store indsigt i det menneskelige sind og de bevæggrunde, der skjuler sig der. Romanen vakte enorm opsigt ved sin udgivelse i 1925 og rystede det samfund, den så skånselsløst afslørede – den udstillede den forløjede dobbeltmoral og det begær efter penge og materielle goder, som lå bag den amerikanske drøm.Hovedpersonen i romanen er en ganske almindelig ung mand – Clyde Griffiths. Han er fra fattige kår og opvokset i en strengt religiøs familie – som så mange amerikanere i århundredets første år. I dette self made-samfund stræber han nu efter en vej op ad den sociale rangstige. Vejen viser sig at gå via storbylivet, et job på et hotel og fristelsen fra vin, spiritus og kvinder. Tragedien indtræffer, da han opdager, at hans hidtidige forlovede, Roberta, står i vejen for den økonomiske fremgang, som kvinden Sondra kan tilbyde ham. Clyde støder hovedet mod samfundets snærende mure, bliver endda morder uden egentlig at ville det, fanges i et ubønhørligt retssystems barske net og udleveres til den sensationslystne presses nådesløse spotlight.Dreiser fandt inspiration til romanens mordintrige i en i samtiden stærkt omtalt retssag fra 1906 – ’The Murder of Grace Brown’, hvor en ung syerske blev myrdet i staten New York.Når man har læst En amerikansk tragedie til ende, kan man kun give dens danske oversætter ret i, at der er bøger, man læser, og der er bøger, man oplever. Denne roman hører til sidstnævnte kategori. En amerikansk tragedie var den roman, der for alvor slog Dreisers navn fast som en af de ypperste blandt de amerikanske naturalister i det 20. århundrede. Dreiser efterlod en betydelig litterær arv og inspirerede en hel generation af amerikanske forfattere, der fulgte efter ham, lige fra Sherwood Anderson og F. Scott Fitzgerald til John Dos Passos.Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945), amerikaner med tysk immigrantbaggrund, lyriker, journalist, romanforfatter, erklæret socialist og talsmand for arbejderklassen.Rosenkilde & Bahnhof udgiver nu denne amerikanske klassiker i Tom Kristensens eminente, stilsikre danske oversættelse fra 1928. Romanen udgives i tre bind.

Sister Carrie, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work, and hence their text is clear and readable. This remarkable book falls within the genres of Language and Literatures, American and Canadian literature

Theodore Dreiser's book "The Financier" was first released in 1912. Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire begins with this work and continues with "The Titan" and "The Stoic." The story examines Frank Cowperwood's ascent and decline as the main character against the backdrop of American finance and industry in the late 19th century. The narrative, which takes place in Philadelphia, follows gifted and aspirational banker Frank Cowperwood as he makes his way through the convoluted worlds of finance, business, and social expectations. Cowperwood engages in a number of financial scams and endeavors, such as stock and streetcar company transactions, as a result of his unwavering quest of cash and success. The story explores the moral and ethical ramifications of Cowperwood's choices, illustrating how they affected his relationships and personal life. The protagonist encounters obstacles and moral conundrums that finally lead to his demise as he accumulates wealth and power. "The Financier" reflects on the intricacies of human ambition, the business world's brutality, and the American Dream. Dreiser offers a thorough and frequently critical analysis of the social and economic dynamics at work throughout the Gilded Age. His naturalistic writing style reflects the complexities of society and human nature.

Harlan Miners Speak: Report On Terrorism In The Kentucky Coal Fields is a non-fiction book written by Theodore Dreiser. The book is a report on the terrorism that was rampant in the Kentucky coal fields during the early 20th century. The book is based on Dreiser's first-hand experiences and interviews with the miners and their families. The book provides a detailed account of the violence, intimidation, and exploitation that the miners faced at the hands of the mine owners and their hired thugs. The book also highlights the miners' struggle for better working conditions, fair wages, and unionization. Harlan Miners Speak is an important historical document that sheds light on the brutal realities of the coal mining industry in Kentucky and the United States. The book is a powerful indictment of the exploitation of workers and the collusion between big business and government. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of labor and social justice in America.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

The Hand of the Potter: A Tragedy in Four Acts is a play written by Theodore Dreiser. The story revolves around the life of a potter named David Schaffner, who is a talented artist but struggles to make a living. He is married to his childhood sweetheart, Jennie, who is unhappy with their financial situation and constantly urges David to find a more stable job. David's life takes a turn when he meets a wealthy patron, Mrs. Gerhardt, who is impressed by his work and offers to support him financially. David becomes infatuated with Mrs. Gerhardt and begins to neglect his wife and family. Meanwhile, Jennie becomes increasingly frustrated with David's behavior and seeks comfort in the arms of another man. The play explores themes of love, ambition, and the pursuit of success. It also delves into the complexities of human relationships and the consequences of our actions. The Hand of the Potter is a tragic tale of a man's downfall and the impact it has on those around him.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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Jennie Gerhardt is a 1911 novel by Theodore Dreiser.Plot summary--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 finds work as a lady's maid in a prominent family. In this home, she meets Lester Kane, a prosperous manufacturer's son. Jennie falls in love with him, impressed by his strong will and generosity. She leaves her daughter in Cleveland and travels to New York with Kane. He does not know of her illegitimate daughter and wants to marry Jennie. But because of their difference in class, he anticipates his family's disapproval and decides to take her as his mistress. They live together successfully in the university neighborhood of Hyde Park, Chicago. After three years, Jennie tells him that Vesta is her daughter. Kane does not yield to his family's pressure to leave Jennie. But, after his father's death, he learns that his inheritance of a substantial part of the family business is conditioned on his leaving her. On hearing the will's terms, Jennie demands they separate for his sake.During their trip to Europe, Kane meets Letty Gerald Pace, an affluent widow. Bowing to pressure from Jennie and his family, he decides to marry. After providing financially for Jennie, he marries Letty, resuming his former social status. Jennie loses her daughter to typhoid fever and adopts two orphans. She continues to love Kane.He becomes seriously ill and tells Jennie he still loves her. She tends him until his death, and mourns secretly at his funeral. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser ( August 27, 1871 - December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency.Dreiser's best known novels include Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925). In 1930 he was nominated to the Nobel Prize in Literature....

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Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 - December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Dreiser's best known novels include Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925). In 1930 he was nominated to the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Jennie Gerhardt - A Classic Novel by Theodore Dreiser Jennie Gerhardt is a 1911 novel by Theodore Dreiser 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.

By 1914, Theodore Dreiser was a successful writer living in New York. He had not been back to his home state in over 20 years. When his friend Franklin Booth approached him with the idea of driving from New York to Indiana, Dreiser's response to Booth was immediate: "All my life I've been thinking of making a return trip to Indiana and writing a book about it." Along the route, Dreiser recorded his impressions of the people and land in words while his traveling companion sketched some of these scenes. In this reflective tale, Dreiser and Booth cross four states to arrive at Indiana and the sites and memories of Dreiser's early life in Terre Haute, Sullivan, Evansville, Warsaw, and his one year at Indiana University. "Because [the book] provides a portrait of the artist as a young man and describes the nation as a mosaic of individual cultures, Dreiser's journey offers several different lessons. Part travelogue, part autobiography, part collection of essays, A Hoosier Holiday lays out the landscape of a nation that ceased to exist once the highway unfurled across the map." -Publishers Weekly Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser ( August 27, 1871 - December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency.Dreiser's best known novels include Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925). In 1930 he was nominated to the Nobel Prize in Literature. Early life--Dreiser was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, to Sarah Maria (née Schanab) and John Paul Dreiser.John Dreiser was a German immigrant from Mayen in the Eifel region, and Sarah was from the Mennonite farming community near Dayton, Ohio. Her family disowned her for converting to Roman Catholicism in order to marry John Dreiser. Theodore was the twelfth of thirteen children (the ninth of the ten surviving). Paul Dresser (1857-1906) was one of his older brothers; Paul changed the spelling of his name as he became a popular songwriter. They were reared as Catholics.After graduating from high school in Warsaw, Indiana, Dreiser attended Indiana University in the years 1889-1890 before dropping out.Writing career--Within several years, Dreiser was writing as a journalist for the Chicago Globe newspaper and then the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. He wrote several articles on writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dean Howells, Israel Zangwill, John Burroughs, and interviewed public figures such as Andrew Carnegie, Marshall Field, Thomas Edison, and Theodore Thomas.Other interviewees included Lillian Nordica, Emilia E. Barr, Philip Armour and Alfred Stieglitz.During 1899, the Dreisers stayed with Arthur Henry and his wife, Maude Wood Henry, at the House of Four Pillars, an 1830s Greek Revival house in the Toledo, Ohio suburb of Maumee.There Dreiser began work on his first novel, Sister Carrie, published in 1900.Unknown to Maude, Henry sold a half-interest in the house to Dreiser, to finance a move to New York without her.In Sister Carrie, Dreiser portrayed a changing society, writing about a young woman who flees rural life for the city (Chicago) and struggles with poverty, complex relationships with men, and prostitution. It sold poorly and was considered controversial because of moral objections to his featuring a country girl who pursues her dreams of fame and fortune through relationships with men. The book has since acquired a considerable reputation. It has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels."It was adapted as a 1952 film by the same name, directed by William Wyler and starring Laurence Olivier and Jennifer Jones.etc..

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Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser about a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream, first as a mistress to men that she perceives as superior, and later becoming a famous actress. It has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels". PLOT: Dissatisfied with life in her rural Wisconsin home, 18-year-old Caroline "Sister Carrie" Meeber takes the train to Chicago, where her older sister Minnie, and Minnie's husband, Sven Hanson, have agreed to take her in. On the train, Carrie meets Charles Drouet, a traveling salesman, who is attracted to her because of her simple beauty and unspoiled manner. They exchange contact information, but upon discovering the "steady round of toil" and somber atmosphere at her sister's flat, she writes to Drouet and discourages him from calling on her there. Carrie soon embarks on a quest for work to pay rent to her sister and her husband, and takes a job running a machine in a shoe factory. Before long, however, she is shocked by the coarse manners of both the male and female factory workers, and the physical demands of the job, as well as the squalid factory conditions, begin to take their toll. She also senses Minnie and Sven's disapproval of her interest in Chicago's recreational opportunities, particularly the theater. One day, after an illness that costs her her job, she encounters Drouet on a downtown street. Once again taken by her beauty, and moved by her poverty, he encourages her to dine with him, where, over sirloin and asparagus, he persuades her to leave her sister and move in with him. To press his case, he slips Carrie two ten dollar bills, opening a vista of material possibilities to her. The next day, he rebuffs her feeble attempts to return the money, taking her shopping at a Chicago department store and securing a jacket she covets and some shoes. That night, she writes a good-bye note to Minnie and moves in with Drouet. Drouet installs her in a much larger apartment, and their relationship intensifies as Minnie dreams about her sister's fall from innocence. She acquires a sophisticated wardrobe and, through his offhand comments about attractive women, sheds her provincial mannerisms, even as she struggles with the moral implications of being a kept woman. By the time Drouet introduces Carrie to George Hurstwood, the manager of Fitzgerald and Moy's - a respectable bar that Drouet describes as a "way-up, swell place" - her material appearance has improved considerably. Hurstwood, unhappy with and distant from his social-climbing wife and children, instantly becomes infatuated with Carrie's youth and beauty, and before long they start an affair, communicating and meeting secretly in the expanding, anonymous city....... Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser ( August 27, 1871 - December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Dreiser's best known novels include Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925). In 1930 he was nominated to the Nobel Prize in Literature.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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)About the author: Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 - December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Dreiser's best known novels include Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925). Dreiser had an enormous influence on the generation that followed his. In his tribute "Dreiser" from Horses and Men (1923), Sherwood Anderson writes (almost repeated 1916 article): Heavy, heavy, the feet of Theodore. How easy to pick some of his books to pieces, to laugh at him for so much of his heavy prose ... The fellows of the ink-pots, the prose writers in America who follow Dreiser, will have much to do that he has never done. Their road is long but, because of him, those who follow will never have to face the road through the wilderness of Puritan denial, the road that Dreiser faced alone.Alfred Kazin characterized Dreiser as "stronger than all the others of his time, and at the same time more poignant; greater than the world he has described, but as significant as the people in it," while Larzer Ziff (UC Berkeley) remarked that Dreiser "succeeded beyond any of his predecessors or successors in producing a great American business novel."Renowned mid-century literary critic Irving Howe spoke of Dreiser as ranking "among the American giants, the very few American giants we have had." A British view of Dreiser came from the publisher Rupert Hart-Davis: "Theodore Dreiser's books are enough to stop me in my tracks, never mind his letters-that slovenly turgid style describing endless business deals, with a seduction every hundred pages as light relief. If he's the great American novelist, give me the Marx Brothers every time." The literary scholar F.R. Leavis wrote that Dreiser "seems as though he learned English from a newspaper. He gives the feeling that he doesn't have any native language".Dreiser's great theme was the tremendous tensions that can arise among ambition, desire, and social mores. (wikipedia.org)

The Titan is a novel by Theodore Dreiser, completed in 1914 as a sequel to his 1912 novel The Financier.[1] Both books were originally a single manuscript, but the narrative's length required splitting it into two separate novels.[2] Dreiser's manuscript of The Titan was rejected by Harper & Brothers, publisher of The Financier, due to its uncompromising realism; John Lane published the book in 1914.[3] The Titan is the second part of Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire, a saga of ruthless businessman Frank Cowperwood (modeled after real-life streetcar tycoon Charles Yerkes). The third part of the trilogy, The Stoic, was Dreiser's final novel, published in 1947 after his death.

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