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Gerber portrays the full range of Dreiser's controversial career, from humble beginnings to best-sellerdom to the final desperate attempt to complete his last works.

Counter Theodore Dreiser is one of the most penetrating observers of the greatest period of social change the United States ever saw. Writing as America emerged as the world's wealthiest nation, Dreiser chronicled industrial and economic transformation and the birth of consumerism with an unmatched combination of detail, sympathy, and power. The specially commissioned essays collected in this volume are written by a leading team of scholars of American...

This is the first book-length study of Dreiser's short fiction oeuvre, comprising 31 stories. These include those collected in Free and Other Stories and Chains, and five uncollected ones. Most of them deal with the theme of success in American life and dramatize the excessive preoccupation with success, and the psychological tension experienced. Arguing for a serious consideration of Drieser, the novelist, as a skillful writer of short fiction, Griffin...

Intermittently during his literary career, Theodore Dreiser made notes of his daily activities, whether they were of major importance or simply trivial. This volume, containing all seven of his diaries, constitutes a revealing self-portrait as well as a valuable account of the American scene during the first quarter of this century.

Essays to help you understand and appreciate the works of Theodore Dreiser.