Dreiser: 40 books

An American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His 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. Dreiser's best known...

6 Best Works of Theodore Dreiser Jennie Gerhardt Sister Carrie The Financier The Genius The Titan Twelve Men

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According to Wikipedia: "Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered 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...

Theodore Dreiser was a prominent American writer in the early 20th century.  Dreiser’s books are noted for featuring characters who lack morals yet often succeeded in life.  This edition of Free and Other Short Stories includes a table of contents.

The Financier (1912) is the first volume in Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire, which continued in The Titan (1914) and the posthumously published The Stoic (1947).  Though based on the life of Chicago financier C. T. Yerkes, Dreiser's novel is set in Philadelphia and follows the roller-coaster career of his unscrupulous character, Frank Algernon Cowperwood.

Though famed as a novelist, Dreiser had aspirations as a playwright. His dream was realized with The Hand of the Potter, a four-act tragedy published in 1918 and produced in 1921.  Dreiser's subject—the rape and murder of a twelve-year-old girl—was highly controversial. 

This collection of twelve narratives was published in 1919, though seven had seen magazine publication previously.  They are portraits of people Dreiser came across in his life who influenced him, ranging from his brother Paul, a noted songwriter, to a tough-as-nails railroad foreman on whose crew a youthful Dreiser had labored.

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Published in 1900, Sister Carrie follows its protagonist, Carrie, as she resolutely makes her way through the bustling city of Chicago in the hope of achieving her ultimate goal of a securing...

Published in 1911, Dreiser's bittersweet novel follows his long-suffering protagonist, Jennie Gerhardt, in her efforts to find love and forge a meaningful life. This proves to be difficult in a society quick to judge poverty as a moral failing, a theme that remains relevant today, nearly a century after it was written.

The second novel in the Trilogy of Desire from the author of The Financier and Sister Carrie.   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...

Eugene Witla, a promising young Midwestern artist created in Dreiser’s own image, moves from Chicago to New York in search of fulfillment. As the “genius” climbs social and financial ladders, he grows a voracious sexual appetite—the exploration of which put this book on the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice’s censure list.

In The Titan (1914), the second volume in Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire, which began with The Financier (1912) and finished with the posthumously published The Stoic (1947), the action shifts from Philadelphia to Chicago, where Frank Cowperwood plans to make himself the boss of the city's transportation system . . . by any means necessary.

Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser.