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| theodore dreiser free summary: An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser, 1925 |
| theodore dreiser free summary: Free, and Other Stories Theodore Dreiser, 1918 |
| theodore dreiser free summary: The Financier Theodore Dreiser, 1912 Set in 19th century Philadelphia and based on the life of flamboyant financier C.T. Yerkes, Dreiser's portrayal of the unscrupulous magnate Frank Cowperwood embodies the idea that behind every great fortune there is a crime. In Philly the protagonist is eventually imprisoned for embezzlement of public funds. He later leaves prison, departs for Chicago, makes another fortune, and becomes involved in still further shaddy practices. You don't read Dreiser for literary finesse, but his great intensity and keen journalistic eye give this portrait a powerful reality. The author wrote two subsequent novels based on the life of Yerkes: The Titan and The Stoic. --Amazon.com. |
| theodore dreiser free summary: Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser, 1976 Theodore Dreiser's first and perhaps most accessible novel, Sister Carrie is an epic of urban life - the story of an innocent heroine adrift in an indifferent city. When small-town girl Carrie Meeber sets out for Chicago, she is equipped with nothing but a few dollars, a certain unspoiled beauty and charm, and a pitiful lack of preparation for the complex moral choices she will face. |
| theodore dreiser free summary: Short Stories Theodore Dreiser, 2012-07-12 Five powerful stories: Free, the story of a man trying, as his wife lies dying, to understand why he never found happiness in marriage plus The Second Choice, Married, Nigger Jeff, and The Lost Phœbe. |
| theodore dreiser free summary: Twelve Men Theodore Dreiser, 1919 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 combine the best attributes of the character sketch, the autobiography, and the short story into miniature masterpieces of prose. The men profiled in Twelve Men are a diverse and colorful group: from Dreiser's equally famous brother, the song-writer Paul Dreiser's (My Brother Paul), to the entirely obscure railroad foreman Michael Burke (The Mighty Rourke), on whose work crew Dreiser had labored in 1903. The twelve narratives are compelling portraits of the men portrayed, but they also reveal many insights into Dreiser's own life and work.--Goodreads website. |
| theodore dreiser free summary: A Hoosier Holiday Theodore Dreiser, 1916 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, the Indiana-born artist 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. So was born the literary genre -- the American automobile road book. 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, covering 2,000 miles in two weeks, to arrive at Indiana and the sites and memories of Dreiser's early life in Terre Haute, Sullivan, Evansville, Warsaw, and his year at Indiana University. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
| theodore dreiser free summary: The Best Short Stories of Theodore Dreiser Theodore Dreiser, 1956 |
| theodore dreiser free summary: The Titan Theodore Dreiser, 2021-05-21 The Titan (1914) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser. The second 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. Preceded by The Financier (1914) and followed by The Stoic (1947), The Titan 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. Based on the life of Charles Yerkes, an influential businessman who funded the development of railway systems in Chicago and London, The Titan is a masterpiece of twentieth century American literature that continues to resonate today. Following his release from prison, Frank Cowperwood exploits the recent Panic of 1873 to purchase stocks at a reduced price, turning a profit and becoming a millionaire once more. Unable to remain in his native Philadelphia, however, he moves to Chicago with his young lover, secures a divorce with his estranged wife, and sets his sights on a failing street-railway system. Elbowing competitors out of the way, Cowperwood takes control of Chicago’s burgeoning transit system and reaches new heights as a man of means. When news of his past becomes known to the local elite, he becomes a pariah at social gatherings. Slowly but surely, his grip on the city of Chicago begins to loosen, as does the strength of his marriage. Wracked by doubt, brought down by his lustful ways, Cowperwood begins to question the trajectory of his ambitious life. The Titan is a story of romance, greed, and betrayal that says as much about a single man as it does about the values of an entire society. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Theodore Dreiser’s The Titan is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers. |
| theodore dreiser free summary: A Traveler at Forty Theodore Dreiser, 1913 |
| theodore dreiser free summary: Jennie Gerhardt Theodore Dreiser, 2012-02-01 Dive into a gripping historical romance from master of naturalism Theodore Dreiser. Things appear to be looking up for downtrodden maid Jennie Gerhardt when she meets and falls in love with a dashing senator. However, soon after their romance blossoms, her new lover is ripped away, leaving Jennie destitute and pregnant. How will she make it in the world all alone? |
| theodore dreiser free summary: The Genius Theodore Dreiser, 2017-12-20 The Genius is Theodore Dreiser's autobiographical novel about the turn-of-the-century art scene. It explores the multiple conflicts between art and business, art and marriage, and between traditional and modern views of sexual morality. Despite heavy editing, The Genius was deemed so shocking that its sale was immediately prohibited by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. It was not released until 1923, and thereafter the episode confirmed Dreiser's status as a writer ahead of his time. Theodore Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist who the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. |
| theodore dreiser free summary: The Titan Illustrated Theodore Dreiser, 2021-04-23 The Titan is a novel by Theodore Dreiser, completed in 1914 as a sequel to his 1912 novel The Financier. Both books were originally a single manuscript, but the narrative's length required splitting it into two separate novels. 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. 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. |
| theodore dreiser free summary: A Northern Light Jennifer Donnelly, 2003 Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, this Printz Honor Book effortlessly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, real, and wholly original. |
| theodore dreiser free summary: Oh, Money! Money! A Novel Eleanor H. Porter, 2023-09-15 Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision. |
| theodore dreiser free summary: The Genius by Theodore Dreiser Novel (World's Classics) Deceased Theodore Dreiser, 2016-01-21 Theodore Dreiser heavily invested himself in The Genius, an autobiographical novel first published in 1915. Thoroughly immersed in the turn-of-the-century art scene, The Genius explores the multiple conflicts between art and business, art and marriage, and between traditional and modern views of sexual morality. Despite heavy editing, The Genius was deemed so shocking that its sale was immediately prohibited by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. It was not released until 1923, and thereafter the episode confirmed Dreiser's status as a writer ahead of his time |
| theodore dreiser free summary: The Outward Room Millen Brand, 2010-10-19 The Outward Room is a rediscovered classic of American literature, a book about a young woman’s journey from madness to self-discovery that is as immediate and moving today as when it first appeared in 1937. Having suffered a nervous breakdown after her younger brother’s death in a car accident, Harriet Demuth has been committed to a mental hospital, where her doctor’s Freudian nostrums have done little to make her well. Convinced that she and she alone can refashion her life, Harriet makes a daring escape from the hospital—hopping a train by night and riding the rails into the vastness of New York City in the light of the rising sun. This is the 1930s, the midst of the Great Depression, and at first Harriet is lost among the city’s anonymous multitudes. She pawns her jewelry and is living an increasingly hand-to-mouth existence when she meets John, a machine-shop worker. Slowly Harriet begins to recover her sense of self; slowly she and John begin to fall in love. The story of that emerging love, told with the lyricism of Virginia Woolf and the realism of Theodore Dreiser, is the heart of Millen Brand’s remarkable book. |
| theodore dreiser free summary: The Great Mistake Jonathan Lee, 2021-06-17 The 'Father of Greater New York' is dead. Shot outside his Park Avenue mansion in the year of our Lord, 1903. In the hour of his death, will the truth of his life finally break free? Born to a struggling farming family in 1820, Andrew Haswell Green was a self-made man who reshaped Manhattan, built Central Park and turned New York into a modern metropolis. Now, at eighty-three, when he thought the world could hold no more surprises, he is murdered. As the detective assigned to the case traces his ghost across the city, other spectres appear: a wealthy courtesan; a broken-hearted man in a bowler hat; and an ambitious politician, Samuel, whose lifelong friendship was a source of joy and frustration. In a life of industry and restraint, where is the space for love? As restlessly inventive and absorbing as its protagonist, The Great Mistake is the story of a city, and a singular man, transformed by longing. |
| theodore dreiser free summary: The Eyes of Asia Rudyard Kipling, 1918 A series of letters purporting to be written by an East Indian officer wounded in France to his relatives at home. - New York Times Book Review, Oct. 20, 1918. |
| theodore dreiser free summary: Dreams Of My Russian Summers Andrei Makine, 1998-08-27 This international bestseller has been translated into 26 languages and is the first work to win both of France's top literary honors. A masterpiece. . . . Makine belongs on the shelf of world literature--between Lermontov and Nabokov, a few volumes down from Proust.--The Atlanta Journal. |
| theodore dreiser free summary: Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters, 1992-10-08 The dead arise from their sleep in the cemetery of a small town to tell their individual stories about an entire community caught in a web of scandal, sin, and vice in the early twentieth century |
| theodore dreiser free summary: The Greater Journey David McCullough, 2011-05-24 The #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned, told by America’s master historian, David McCullough. Not all pioneers went west. In The Greater Journey, David McCullough tells the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, and others who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, hungry to learn and to excel in their work. What they achieved would profoundly alter American history. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in America, was one of this intrepid band. Another was Charles Sumner, whose encounters with black students at the Sorbonne inspired him to become the most powerful voice for abolition in the US Senate. Friends James Fenimore Cooper and Samuel F. B. Morse worked unrelentingly every day in Paris, Morse not only painting what would be his masterpiece, but also bringing home his momentous idea for the telegraph. Harriet Beecher Stowe traveled to Paris to escape the controversy generated by her book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Three of the greatest American artists ever—sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, painters Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent—flourished in Paris, inspired by French masters. Almost forgotten today, the heroic American ambassador Elihu Washburne bravely remained at his post through the Franco-Prussian War, the long Siege of Paris, and the nightmare of the Commune. His vivid diary account of the starvation and suffering endured by the people of Paris is published here for the first time. Telling their stories with power and intimacy, McCullough brings us into the lives of remarkable men and women who, in Saint-Gaudens’ phrase, longed “to soar into the blue.” |
| theodore dreiser free summary: The Stoic Theodore Dreiser, 1947 |
| theodore dreiser free summary: Tante Eva Paula Bomer, 2022-05-03 A woman and her niece are bound together and driven apart by loves, desires, frustrations, and addictions. East Berlin, a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Eva, a retired nurse, makes it through her day on a combination of stimulants and sleeping pills, wine and brandy. She finds fleeting joy in American jazz and blues records, and occasional visits from her married lover. Her friendly teenaged neighbor is her closest companion. Then her American niece, Maggie, arrives in Berlin. Eva is thrilled—Maggie is just the companion she’s been seeking. But happiness begins to slide from Eva’s grasp as Maggie’s own fierce drug addiction reveals itself. Tante Eva is a story that deftly takes in decades of family life and German history, estrangement, joys, and disappointments. It is a portrait of East Berlin in the years after the Wall came down, and of an overlooked woman pursuing happiness and sexual pleasure. It is the finest book yet from Paula Bomer, an author whose work Jonathan Franzen describes as “some of the rawest and most urgent writing I can remember encountering.” |
| theodore dreiser free summary: Mildred Pierce James M. Cain, 2010-12-29 In Mildred Pierce, noir master James M. Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devasting emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable. Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men, and an unreasoning devotion to a monstrous daughter. |
| theodore dreiser free summary: The Emperor of Ocean Park Stephen L. Carter, 2002 After the funeral of his powerful father, Talcott Garland, an African American law professor at an Ivy League university, is left to unravel the meaning of a cryptic note and carry out the arrangements his father left behind. |
| theodore dreiser free summary: A Book about Myself Theodore Dreiser, 1922 |
| theodore dreiser free summary: Odds Against Tomorrow Nathaniel Rich, 2013-04-02 While working for a financial consulting firm that offers insurance against catastrophic events, a young mathematician becomes increasingly obsessed with doomsday scenarios until one of his worst-case scenarios unfolds in Manhattan. |
| theodore dreiser free summary: THE BULWARK THEODORE DREISER, 1946 |
| theodore dreiser free summary: Eat What You Kill Ted Scofield, 2014-03-25 In Eat What You Kill by Ted Scofield, Evan Stoess is a struggling young Wall Street analyst obsessed with fortune and fame. A trailer park kid who attended an exclusive prep school through a lucky twist of fate, Evan's unusual past leaves him an alien in both worlds, an outsider who desperately wants to belong. When a small stock he discovers becomes an overnight sensation, he is poised to make millions and land the girl of his dreams, but disaster strikes and he loses everything. Two years later a mysterious firm offers Evan a chance for redemption, and he jumps at the opportunity. His new job is to short stocks—to bet against the market. But when the stock goes up and he finds himself on the brink of ruin once again, another option presents itself: murder. At a moral crossroads, Evan must ask himself—how far will a man go for money and vengeance? |
| theodore dreiser free summary: American Rust Philipp Meyer, 2009-04-06 NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING JEFF DANIELS AND MAURA TIERNEY An American voice reminiscent of Steinbeck – a debut novel on friendship, loyalty, and love, centering on a murder in a dying Pennsylvania steel town, from the bestselling author of THE SON. Isaac is the smartest kid in town, left behind to care for his sick father after his mother dies by suicide and his sister Lee moves away. Now Isaac wants out too. Not even his best friend, Billy Poe, can stand in his way: broad-shouldered Billy, always ready for a fight, still living in his mother's trailer. Then, on the very day of Isaac's leaving, something happens that changes the friends' fates and tests the loyalties of their friendship and those of their lovers, families, and the town itself. Evoking John Steinbeck's novels of restless lives during the Great Depression, American Rust is an extraordinarily moving novel about the bleak realities that battle our desire for transcendence, and the power of love and friendship to redeem us. 'A startlingly mature and impressive debut' KATE ATKINSON 'Darkly disturbing and darkly compelling' PATRICIA CORNWELL 'Written with considerable dramatic intensity and pace' COLM TÓIBÍN 'A masterpiece. The best book to come out of America since The Road' CHRIS CLEAVE |
| theodore dreiser free summary: Reading the Male Gaze in Literature and Culture James D. Bloom, 2017-10-06 This book examines the phenomenon of 'the male gaze', a concept which has spread beyond academia and become a staple of cultural conversations across disciplinary boundaries. Male gazing has typically been disparaged and even stigmatized as a reflection of misogyny and an instrument of objectification, often justifiably so. But as this book argues and illustrates, male gazing can also be understood as an illuminating, intellectually engaging, aesthetically compelling, and even politically progressive practice. This study recounts how the author’s own coming-of-an-age as a gazer became the basis for his long career teaching and writing about American fiction and poetry and poetry, canonical and contemporary, as well as about film, painting, TV, and rock-and-roll. It includes closely-reasoned analyses of work by James Baldwin, Rembrandt, Willa Cather, Philip Roth, Henry James, Charles Chesnutt, Bob Dylan, Robert Stone,Tim O’Brien, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, Frank O’Hara, Italo Calvino, John Schlesinger as well such cultural phenomena as the British Invasion of the 1960s, the Judgment of Paris in Greek mythology, the technology of seeing (kaleidoscopes, microscopes, telescopes) and the concept of 'objectification' itself. |
| theodore dreiser free summary: Baby & Other Stories Paula Bomer, 2010 Paula Bomer is a dangerous writer. The short stories in her debut collection are subversive portraits of the modern American family. From a husband who traces his internal crisis to witnessing his wife giving birth, to a mother who forces her young son on a rainy walk through a cemetery as she contemplates the detritus of her marriage, Bomer¿s characters are hauntingly familiar. Their fear and rage, their failures and desires are our own. |
| theodore dreiser free summary: Netherland Joseph O’Neill, 2012-10-25 In early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal. |
| theodore dreiser free summary: Book Review Digest , 1919 |
| theodore dreiser free summary: Ragtime E. L. Doctorow, 2012-09-04 Welcome to America at the turn of the twentieth century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat. Harry Houdini astonishes audiences with magical feats of escape, the mighty J. P. Morgan dominates the financial world and Henry Ford manufactures cars by making men into machines. Emma Goldman preaches free love and feminism, while ex-chorus girl Evelyn Nesbitt inspires a mad millionaire to murder the architect Stanford White. In this stunningly original chronicle of an age, such real-life characters intermingle with three remarkable families, one black, one Jewish and one prosperous WASP, to create a dazzling literary mosaic that brings to life an era of dire poverty, fabulous wealth, and incredible change - in short, the era of ragtime. |
| theodore dreiser free summary: Plot Summary Index , 1981 |
| theodore dreiser free summary: Theodore Dreiser Frederic E. Rusch, Donald Pizer, 2004 Hardly shy about himself or his work, Theodore Dreiser knew the value of publicity. Over four decades he often consented to interviews, answering questions about his fiction, his politics, and even previous interviews. Throughout his life Dreiser raised a storm of protest with his realistic novels, blistered public figures and other authors with untempered criticism, scorned pieties masking brutality in law and economics, and expressed a few contradictions of his own. This volume collects for the first time more than seventy interviews. As a group, they show Dreiser dealing with an array of literary and social issues, as well as his lifelong incapacity to mince words. Dreiser is revealed in these interviews as a public figure of epic proportions. |
| theodore dreiser free summary: The Femme Fatale in American Literature Ghada Sasa, 2008 This Bronze E-Book Edition for institutional buyers provides web reader access and download of an abridged version in PDF and device formats. |
| theodore dreiser free summary: Almos' a Man Richard Wright, 1979 |
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Theodore is a masculine given name. It comes from the Ancient Greek name Θεόδωρος (Theódoros), meaning "gift of God (s)" (from the Ancient Greek words θεός, (theós) "God/Gods" …
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Feb 25, 2025 · Originating from the ancient Greek word Theodoros, the name Theodore has a strong, masculine ring. The name is derived from the Greek word ‘ Theo,’ meaning God and …
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Aug 7, 2024 · What does Theodore mean and stand for? Meaning: Greek: Gift of God; Gender: Male. Syllables: 3. Pronunciation: The name Theodore is pronounced THEE-uh-dohr. The name …
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Dec 1, 2024 · From the Greek name Θεόδωρος (Theodoros), which meant "gift of god" from Greek θεός (theos) meaning "god" and δῶρον (doron) meaning "gift". The name Dorothea is derived …
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Theodore is a name with widespread geographical distribution and cultural significance. It has its roots in Greek culture, where it is derived from the Greek words “theos” meaning God and …
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Theodore (given name) - Wikipedia
Theodore is a masculine given name. It comes from the Ancient Greek name Θεόδωρος (Theódoros), meaning "gift of God (s)" (from the Ancient Greek words θεός, (theós) "God/Gods" …
Theodore: Name Meaning, Origin, Popularity - Parents
6 days ago · The name Theodore is of Greek origin meaning “gift of God” or “divine gift.” The original Greek name Theodoros is a compound of theos (God) and doron (gift). The name was a …
Theodore - Baby Name Meaning, Origin, and Popularity
Jun 8, 2025 · The name Theodore is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "gift of God". Classic and elegant but with boyish charm, Theodore has become hit name in recent years, vaulting into …
Theodore Roosevelt | Biography, Presidency, National Parks ...
May 9, 2025 · Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States (1901–09) and a writer, naturalist, and soldier. He expanded the powers of the presidency and of the federal …
Theodore Name Meaning, Origin, History, And Popularity
Feb 25, 2025 · Originating from the ancient Greek word Theodoros, the name Theodore has a strong, masculine ring. The name is derived from the Greek word ‘ Theo,’ meaning God and …
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6 days ago · What is the meaning of the name Theodore? The name Theodore is primarily a male name of Greek origin that means Gift Of God, Divine Gift. The name Theodore is of Greek origin …
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Aug 7, 2024 · What does Theodore mean and stand for? Meaning: Greek: Gift of God; Gender: Male. Syllables: 3. Pronunciation: The name Theodore is pronounced THEE-uh-dohr. The name …
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Dec 1, 2024 · From the Greek name Θεόδωρος (Theodoros), which meant "gift of god" from Greek θεός (theos) meaning "god" and δῶρον (doron) meaning "gift". The name Dorothea is derived …
Theodore: meaning, origin, and significance explained
Theodore is a name with widespread geographical distribution and cultural significance. It has its roots in Greek culture, where it is derived from the Greek words “theos” meaning God and …
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