The Financier, Dreiser Theodore

Автор: Dreiser Theodore
Название: Sister Carrie
ISBN: 0140188282 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140188288
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Описание: Presents a story of a country girl`s rise to riches as the mistress of a wealthy man which marked the beginning of the naturalist movement in America.

Автор: Dreiser Theodore
Название: Sister Carrie
ISBN: 1416561498 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781416561491
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
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Описание: Carrie Meeber leaves her home in rural Wisconsin for big-city life in Chicago, and faces a series of struggles -- professional, moral, and romantic -- before achieving success in the New York theater scene.

THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction that gives the reader importantbackground informationA chronology of the author's life and workA timeline of significant events that provides the book'shistorical contextAn outline of key themes and plot points to guide the reader'sown interpretationsDetailed explanatory notesCritical analysis, including contemporary and modernperspectives on the workDiscussion questions to promote lively classroom and bookgroup interactionA list of recommended related books and films to broadenthe reader's experience

Автор: Dreiser Theodore
Название: Sister Carrie
ISBN: 0199539081 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199539086
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: 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 in the theatre and George Hurstwood's slow decline captures the twin poles of exuberance and exhaustion in modern city life as never before. The premier example of American naturalism, Dreiser's remarkable first novel has deeply influenced such key
writers as William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Saul Bellow, and Joyce Carol Oates. This edition uses the 1900 text, which is regarded as the author's final version.

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Автор: Dreiser Theodore
Название: The Financier
ISBN: 014310554X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143105541
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Описание: Frank Cowperwood, a fiercely ambitious businessman, emerges as the very embodiment of greed as he relentlessly seeks satisfaction in wealth, women, and power. As Cowperwood deals and double-deals, betrays and is in turn betrayed, his rise and fall come to represent the American success story stripped down to brutal realities.

Автор: Dreiser Theodore
Название: Sister Carrie
ISBN: 0553213741 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553213744
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: "When a girl leaves 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." With Sister Carrie, first published in 1900, Theodore Dreiser transformed the conventional "fallen woman" story into a genuinely innovative and powerful work of fiction. As he hurled his impressionable midwestern heroine into the throbbing, amoral world of the big city, he revealed, with brilliant insight, the deep and driving forces of American culture: the restless idealism, glamorous materialism, and basic spiritual innocence.

Sister Carrie brought American literature into the twentieth century. This volume, which reprints the text Dreiser approved for publication during his lifetime and includes a special appendix discussing his earlier, unedited manuscript, is the original standard edition of one of the great masterpieces of literary realism.

Автор: Dreiser Theodore
Название: The Titan: Large Print
ISBN: 1099683467 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781099683466
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Описание: In the Panic of 1873, Frank Cowperwood's fortune was destroyed and his criminal activity on the stock exchange was exposed. Now, with his prison sentence complete, he is ready to begin the next chapter of his life. Following the same creed of selfishness that guided him to his first fortune, Cowperwood leaves Philadelphia for Chicago and gives up financial speculation to pursue a new frontier. Though he soon rediscovers wealth in stock investment, he remains hounded by scandal as he maneuvers to take control of the Chicago railway system. Through double-dealing, divorce, infidelity, and social disgrace, America's most corrupt man continues his lifelong pursuit of self-satisfaction.

Автор: Dreiser Theodore
Название: Sister Carrie
ISBN: 0486434680 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780486434681
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Sister Carrie ... came to housebound and airless America like a great free Western wind, and to our stuffy domesticity gave us the first fresh air since Mark Twain and Whitman. -- Sinclair Lewis
It is a great novel and belongs on anybody's list, absolutely. -- Garrison Keillor
An eighteen-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 progress on the men who use her and are used in turn -- aroused a storm of controversy and debate upon its debut in 1900. The author's nonjudgmental portrait of a heroine who violates the contemporary moral code outraged some critics, including the book's publisher, Frank Doubleday, who tried to back out of his agreement his firm had made with Dreiser. But others were elated -- and Dreiser's compelling plot and realistic characters continue to fascinate readers.
Sister Carrie stands outside the brief traffic of the customary stage. It leaves behind an inescapable impression of bigness, of epic sweep and dignity. It is not a mere story, not a novel in the customary American meaning of the word; it is at once a psalm of life and a criticism of life ... Dreiser's] aim is not merely to tell a tale; his aim is to show the vast ebb and flow of forces which sway and condition human destiny. The thing he seeks to do is to stir, to awaken, to move. One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched. -- H. L. Mencken

Автор: Dreiser Theodore
Название: Short Stories
ISBN: 0486282155 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780486282152
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Описание: Five powerful and original stories: "Free," "The Second Choice," "Married," "Nigger Jeff," and "The Lost Phoebe.".

Автор: Dreiser Theodore
Название: Sister Carrie
ISBN: 0451527607 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780451527608
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Caroline Meeber is a runaway who is seduced on her way to Chicago by a salesman. Later she falls in love with a barkeeper who embarks on a crime spree that forces them to flee to New York where their lives are changed forever.'

Автор: Dreiser Theodore
Название: American Tragedy. An
ISBN: 0451527704 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780451527707
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: The author's classic vision of the dark side of American life looks at the failings of the American dream, in the story of the rise and fall of Clyde Griffiths, who sacrifices everything in his desperate quest for success.

Автор: Dreiser Theodore
Название: Twelve Men
ISBN: 107060089X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781070600895
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Описание: Best remembered for being one of the leading figures in the school of fiction writing known as naturalism, American author Theodore Dreiser got his professional start as a journalist, and he brings his love of research and detail to this collection of biographical essays celebrating the lives and contributions of 12 people who influenced him.

Автор: Dreiser Theodore
Название: Jennie Gerhardt: Large Print
ISBN: 1070605549 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781070605548
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Описание: 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?

Автор: Dreiser Theodore
Название: Theodore Dreiser: An American Tragedy
ISBN: 1931082316 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781931082310
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: This Library of America volume contains the novel that is the culmination of Theodore Dreiser's elementally powerful fictional art. A tremendous bestseller when it was first published in 1925, An American Tragedy takes as point of departure a notorious murder case of 1906--one among many that Dreiser studied in preparation. He immersed himself in the social background of the crime to produce a book that is a remarkable work of reportage, a monumental study of character, and a stunning jeremiad against the delusions and inequities of American society.

Few novels have undertaken to track so relentlessly the process by which an ordinary young man becomes capable of committing a ruthless murder and the further process by which social and political forces come into play after his arrest. In Clyde Griffiths, the impoverished, restless offspring of a family of street preachers, Dreiser created an unforgettable portrait of a man whose social insecurities and naive dreams of self-betterment conspire to pull him toward act of unforgivable violence. The murder that he commits on a quiet lake in the Adirondacks is an extended scene of overwhelming impact, and it is followed by equally gripping episodes of his arrest and trial. Throughout, Dreiser elevates the most mundane aspects of what he observes into emotionally charged, often harrowing symbols.

Around Clyde, Dreiser builds an extraordinarily detailed portrait of early twentieth-century America, its religious and sexual hypocrisies, its economic pressures, its political corruption and journalistic exploitation. The sheer prophetic amplitude of his bitter truth-telling, in idiosyncratic prose of uncanny expressiveness, continues to mark Dreiser as a crucially important American writer. An American Tragedy, the great achievement of his later years, is a work of mythic force, at once brutal and heartbreaking.

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Автор: Dreiser Theodore
Название: Jennie Gerhardt
ISBN: 9353365953 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789353365950
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Автор: Dreiser Theodore
Название: An American Tragedy
ISBN: 0451531558 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780451531551
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Описание: An American Masterpiece

Clyde Griffiths finds his social-climbing aspirations and love for a rich and beautiful debutante threatened when his lower-class pregnant girlfriend gives him an ultimatum.