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  • 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 1]

    This 1st volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane: Emma Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes Butler ... Read more

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  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

    This 1st volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane: Emma Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes Butler, ... Read more

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  • An American Tragedy

    Ambition, desire, and social expectations collide in one of America's most powerful literary classics. Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy explores the aspirations and inner conflicts of a young man determined to rise beyond the circumstances of his upbringing. As his dreams of wealth, status, and romance grow stronger, his choices gradually lead him into increasingly difficult circumstances. ... Read more

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  • The "Genius"

    A Painter Between Work and Appetite

    A painter of real talent marries, prospers in advertising, and destroys both his art and his marriage over a girl of eighteen. Dreiser's most autobiographical novel; it was suppressed for obscenity in 1916 and defended in a petition signed by five hundred writers. ... Read more

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  • The Financier

    The Rise of a Philadelphia Financier

    A Philadelphia boy watches a lobster eat a squid in a tank and concludes that he now understands how the world is arranged. He goes into brokerage, into street railways, into the city treasurer's accounts, and into the wife of a man whose help he needs. Dreiser built Cowperwood on the real streetcar magnate Charles Yerkes and researched him like a reporter. The prose is heavy and the accounting is ... Read more

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  • Sister Carrie

    A Country Girl Rises as a Man Falls

    A country girl arrives in Chicago, becomes first a mistress and then a stage success, and the man who ruined himself for her goes down as she rises. Doubleday printed it in 1900 and then refused to advertise it, the publisher's wife having found it immoral; it sold under five hundred copies and is now the first modern American novel. ... Read more

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  • Jennie Gerhardt

    A Poor Girl and Two Men of Means

    A poor girl becomes the mistress of two men in succession because her family needs the money, and loses the first to a sudden death and the second to his family's demand for respectability. Dreiser's publisher cut and softened it heavily; even so the reviewers called it sordid. ... Read more

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  • A Book About Myself

    The Novelist's Newspaper Years

    Dreiser's own account of his years as a young reporter in Chicago, St Louis and Pittsburgh - the papers, the poverty, the women and the moment he understood what he wanted to write. Published in 1922, it was later reissued as Newspaper Days. ... Read more

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  • An American Tragedy

    One dream of a better life. One terrible decision. A chain of consequences that cannot be undone. Clyde Griffiths longs to escape his modest circumstances and build a life of wealth, status, and respect. But his ambitions lead him into a complicated world of desire, social pressure, opportunity, and moral uncertainty. In An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser explores the powerful forces that shape ... Read more

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  • An American Tragedy

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    In Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, poverty, faith, and ambition collide in the life of Clyde Griffiths, the sensitive eldest son of a wandering street-preaching family. Introduced at dusk as his parents lead a public hymn-sing and tract distribution on a city street, Clyde is already marked by shame at the spectacle of their devotion and by a growing hunger for a different kind of life. ... Read more

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  • An American Tragedy

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Clyde Griffiths is caught between two worlds: the dangerous reality of Roberta's pregnancy and the intoxicating promise of social ascent through Sondra Finchley. As he moves more confidently among the wealthy, Sondra's playful tenderness and the possibility of a summer romance—canoes, horseback rides, dances, and secret meetings—feed his dreams of status, while her family remains blind to the ... Read more

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