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Sister Carrie" is a novel written by the American author Theodore Dreiser. It was first published in 1900 and is considered one of the important works of American naturalism and early realism. The novel tells the story of a young woman named Caroline Meeber, who leaves her small-town life in Wisconsin to seek a better future in Chicago. As she struggles with the challenges of city life, she becomes involved with two men, Charles Drouet and Ge...

In any group of men I have ever known, speaking from the point of view of character and not that of physical appearance, Peter would stand out as deliciously and irrefutably different. In the great waste of American intellectual dreariness he was an oasis, a veritable spring in the desert. He understood life. He knew men. He was free¿spiritually, morally, in a thousand ways, it seemed to me. As one drags along through this inexplicable existen...

This story follows a true crime murder case from New York in 1906. Clyde Griffiths is the impoverished young man from a family of street preachers who dreams of bettering his station in life. However, his dream ends in murder and he is subsequently arrested and put on trial--putting the media in a frenzy.

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The Financier" is a novel written by the American author Theodore Dreiser. It was first published in 1912 and is the first novel in Dreiser's trilogy known as "The Trilogy of Desire, " which also includes "The Titan" and "The Stoic." The novel follows the life and career of Frank Cowperwood, a shrewd and ambitious financier who rises to prominence in the world of finance and industry in late 19th-century Philadelphia. The story explores theme...

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...

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 ...

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