Synopses & Reviews
Now an abridged edition of two highly acclaimed volumes Praise for Theodore Dreiser: At the Gates of the City, 18711907 "Dreisers life has never been more vividly told. Lingemans definitive book reveals the tough, uncompromising impulse that led Dreiser, disdaining style, to slug with such knockout power." Studs Terkel "Scrupulously, massivelydevotedlyconstructed; everything is in it. And it is immaculately rendered." Cynthia Ozick The New York Times Book Review "An intimate and revealing portrait
a solid, honorable and perceptive book." Jonathan Yardley The Washington Post Book World "A remarkable book packed with vivid reminiscences, personal anecdotes and thorough research that brings Dreisers prodigious, moving story, his turbulent era and the man himself truly alive." Don Skiles San Francisco Chronicle Praise for Theodore Dreiser: An American Journey, 19081945 Chicago Sun-Times Book of the Year, 1990 "A fascinating documentation of the most troubled life led by any important modern American writer." Alfred Kazin The New York Times Book Review "It is hard to imagine that anything new or different will be said about Dreiser for a long time to come. Whatever a definitive biography may be, this is surely it." Charles Fecher Chicago Tribune
Table of Contents
Partial table of contents:
BOYHOOD.
The Immigrant.
Dawn.
City Lights.
Awakenings.
APPRENTICESHIP.
The Cub.
St.
Louis Days.
Love in the White City.
First Principles in Pittsburgh.
Broadway Paul.
SISTER CARRIE.
She Went to the City.
Under the Gaslight.
Strange, Bitter, Sad Facts.
THE NOVELIST STILLBORN.
At the Outworks of the City.
A Novel Amid Forces: The Spendings of Fancy.
DOWN HILL AND UP.
The Ache of Modernism.
Touching Bottom.
THE LOST DECADE.
The Way Back.
The Gates of the City.
THE EDITOR.
The Bohemian Within.
A Woman's Story.
ANNI MIRABILES.
Grand Tour.
Chicago.
THE VILLAGE.
Desire as Hero.
The Tragedy of Desire.
HOLLYWOOD.
The Golden Girl.
The Tangled Web.
TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH.
Scenes of the Crime.
Death by Water.
RUSSIA.
Thursdays at Home.
This Madness.
EQUITY.
Going Left.
The Stoic.
EQUATION INEVITABLE.
Exiles.
The Bulwark.
Bibliography.
Index.