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Newly released from Duke Classics—An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser. The pages follow the life Clyde Griffiths, beginning with a childhood of poverty. His desire for affluence leads him to Chicago, and then New York, but the path is never clean or clear. Love, the law, and Clyde's own lies blur the lines between truth and reality in this tale based on a true story.
Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek
ISBN: 978-1-62920-987-6

A country girl moves to the big city and lives her own version of the American Dream by becoming mistress to the men of her choice and so working her way to fame as an actress.

Sinclair Lewis said of the novel in 1930, "Dreiser's great first novel, Sister Carrie, which he dared to publish thirty long years ago and which I read twenty-five years ago, 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."
Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek
ISBN: 978-1-62011-059-1

Acclaimed American journalist and fiction writer penned a number of noteworthy classics in his day, including Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy. His 1912 novel The Financier was the first in a trilogy of works following the life and career of Frank Cowperwood, a Philadelphia-born entrepreneur whose rising fortunes and intermittent disasters are emblematic of many of those who populated nineteenth-century America.
Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek
ISBN: 978-1-62012-097-2

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.
Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek
ISBN: 978-1-62012-792-6