The Best Short Stories of Theodore Dreiser

The Best Short Stories of Theodore Dreiser

Author: Theodore Dreiser

Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780929587035

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An extraordinary collection which reminds us how great a talent Dreiser was."He has no peer in the American short story....Among the moderns, there is almost no one capable of writing tales like these." -Howard Fast.


Short Stories

Short Stories

Author: Theodore Dreiser

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-07-12

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 0486158071

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Five powerful stories: "Free," the story of a man trying, as his wife lies dying, to understand why he never found happiness in marriage plus "The Second Choice," "Married," "Nigger Jeff," and "The Lost Phœbe."


Free and other stories

Free and other stories

Author: Theodore Dreiser

Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB

Published: 2023-09-24

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13:

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Doctor Storm looked at Mr. Haymaker as though he were very sorry for him—an old man long accustomed to his wife’s ways and likely to be made very unhappy by her untimely end; whereas Mr. Haymaker, though staring in an almost sculptural way, was really thinking what a farce it all was, what a dull mixture of error and illusion on the part of all. Here he was, sixty years of age, weary of all this, of life really—a man who had never been really happy in all the time that he had been married; and yet here was his wife, who from conventional reasons believed that he was or should be, and who on account of this was serenely happy herself, or nearly so. And this doctor, who imagined that he was old and weak and therefore in need of this loving woman’s care and sympathy and understanding! Unconsciously he raised a deprecating hand....FROM THE BOOKS.


Great Short Stories by Great American Writers

Great Short Stories by Great American Writers

Author: Thomas Fasano

Publisher: Coyote Canyon Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 0982129874

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Featuring 30 of the greatest short stories from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this new anthology begins with Washington Irving's tale "Rip Van Winkle" and ranges across more than one hundred years of storytelling, concluding with F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic, "Winter Dreams." Other selections include Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher," Melville's "Bartleby, The Scrivener," Harte's "The Luck of Roaring Camp," "To Build a Fire," by Jack London, "The Middle Years" by Henry James, plus stories by Mark Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charles Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Ambrose Bierce, Theodore Dreiser, and others. Perfect for classroom use, this outstanding collection of short stories will also prove popular with fiction readers everywhere.


Jennie Gerhardt

Jennie Gerhardt

Author: Theodore Dreiser

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2014-09-17

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 0812291530

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Regarded as one of Dreiser's best novels, Jennie Gerhardt is here recaptured as it was originally written, restoring it to its complete, unexpurgated form.


Twelve Men

Twelve Men

Author: Theodore Dreiser

Publisher:

Published: 1919

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13:

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"In 1919, having recently accepted the publishing contract of a new publisher, Dreiser proposed to publish a "book of characters" that would collect twelve biographical sketches of individuals who were major influences on Dreiser, both as a man and as a writer. The resulting narratives combine the best attributes of the character sketch, the autobiography, and the short story into miniature masterpieces of prose. The men profiled in Twelve Men are a diverse and colorful group: from Dreiser's equally famous brother, the song-writer Paul Dreiser's ("My Brother Paul"), to the entirely obscure railroad foreman Michael Burke ("The Mighty Rourke"), on whose work crew Dreiser had labored in 1903. The twelve narratives are compelling portraits of the men portrayed, but they also reveal many insights into Dreiser's own life and work."--Goodreads website.


The Best Short Stories of Theodore Dreiser

The Best Short Stories of Theodore Dreiser

Author: Theodore Dreiser

Publisher: Amereon Limited

Published: 1919

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780884115397

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Khat / Free / St. Columbia and the river / MeEwen of the shinig slave makers / The shadow / A Doer of the word / Nigger Jeff / The old neighborhood / Phantom Gold / My brother Paul / The lost Phoebe / Convention / Marriage--for one / The Prince who was a thief.


Great American Short Stories

Great American Short Stories

Author: Paul Negri

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2002-07-23

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0486421198

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Featuring 19 of the finest works in the American short-story tradition, this compilation includes: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, plus stories by Hawthorne, Twain, Cather, and others.


Jennie Gerhardt

Jennie Gerhardt

Author: Theodore Dreiser

Publisher:

Published: 1911

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13:

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Jennie Gerhardt is a destitute young woman. While working in a hotel in Columbus, Ohio, Jennie meets George Brander, a United State Senator, who becomes infatuated with her. He helps her family and declares his wish to marry her. Jennie, grateful for his benevolence, agrees to sleep with him. He dies before they marry, and Jennie is pregnant. She gives birth to a daughter, Vesta, and moves to Cleveland with her mother. There she meets Lester Kane, a prosperous manufacturer's son, and their love must contend with continual dissaproval from his family.