Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Theodore Dreiser which are Sister Carrie and The Financier . Theodore Dreiser 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. Novels selected for this book: - Sister Carrie - The Financier This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.
Khat / Free / St. Columbia and the river / MeEwen of the shinig slave makers / The shadow / A Doer of the word / Nigger Jeff / The old neighborhood / Phantom Gold / My brother Paul / The lost Phoebe / Convention / Marriage--for one / The ...
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 ...
Commending the examples of activist reformers like Jane Addams and “municipal housekeeper” Caroline Bartlett Crane, Dreiser regarded such women as playing a crucial role in ensuring that the aims of Progressive reform were realized in ...
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser ( August 27, 1871 - December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school.
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.
The resulting narratives combine the best attributes of the character sketch, the autobiography, and the short story into miniature masterpieces of prose.
In 1930 he was nominated to the Nobel Prize in Literature Hey Rub-a-Dub-Dub: A Book of the Mystery and Wonder and Terror of Life is a collection of twenty essays by Theodore Dreiser.
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.
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.
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.