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Читать книгу An American Tragedy
An American Tragedy
Автор:
Theodore Dreiser
Дата добавления:
2022-03-17
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
350

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Description Clyde Griffith’s parents are poor street-preachers, but Clyde doesn’t “believe,” and finds their work demeaning. At fifteen he gets a job and starts to ease out of their lives, eventually landing in some trouble that causes him to flee the town where they live. Two years later, Clyde meets his well-off uncle, who owns a large factory in upstate New York. Clyde talks his way into a job at the factory, and soon finds himself supervising a roomful of women. All alone, generally shunned by his uncle’s family, and starved for companionship, he breaks the factory’s rules and begins a relationship with a young woman who works for him. But Clyde has visions of marrying a high-society woman, and fortune smiles on him in the form of the daughter of...
Читать книгу Sister Carrie
Sister Carrie
Автор:
Theodore Dreiser
Дата добавления:
2022-03-17
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
153

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Theodore Dreiser was one of the earliest naturalist writers, but he wrote Sister Carrie while the United..." data-title="Книга Sister Carrie">
Description Caroline Meeber, known as Sister Carrie to her family, moves to Chicago at the tender age of eighteen to try to make something of herself. Living with her sister and brother-in-law, she quickly finds that life, and work, are hard in the big city. She soon takes up with a traveling salesman she met on the train into town. Months later her eye is turned by one of the salesman’s acquaintances, George Hurstwood, and vice-versa. A series of events lead Carrie and Hurstwood to New York City, where both struggle to live out the aspirations that brought them there. Theodore Dreiser was one of the earliest naturalist writers, but he wrote Sister Carrie while the United...
Читать книгу The Financier
The Financier
Автор:
Theodore Dreiser
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Дата добавления:
2024-10-24
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
192

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Description Frank Cowperwood is a teenager living in Philadelphia when he comes across a lobster kept in a tank. As the lobster lunges at and devours the other sea creatures helplessly trapped with it, Frank decides that this pitiless example of nature red in tooth and claw is the most effective way of advancing in wealth and human affairs. After making some easy money acting as a middleman for a castile soap distributor, Frank quickly finds himself amassing a fortune in business and investments as the Civil War tears across America. Soon he finds himself willingly embroiled in an embezzlement scheme with the hapless city treasurer—only for it all to violently collapse when the Great Chicago Fire causes a stock market crash. The...
Читать книгу The Titan
The Titan
Автор:
Theodore Dreiser
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Дата добавления:
2024-10-24
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
192

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Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire, The Titan continues the dramatized story of a real life streetcar tycoon, with the character of Cowperwood standing in for the historical figure of Charles Yerkes. Dreiser uses Yerkes’ story to..." data-title="Книга The Titan">
Description Frank Cowperwood, a disgraced robber baron, has just been released from prison. After some canny investments pay off, he decides to head west to Chicago, where he can rebuild his fortune and his good name. He takes his mistress, Aileen, with him, and quickly learns how to use his wealth and machine politics to take over the Chicago streetcar system. The second entry in Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire, The Titan continues the dramatized story of a real life streetcar tycoon, with the character of Cowperwood standing in for the historical figure of Charles Yerkes. Dreiser uses Yerkes’ story to...