Bøger af Theodore Dreiser

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Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 - December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Jennie Gerhardt is a 1911 novel by Theodore Dreiser. Jennie Gerhardt is a destitute young woman. While working in a hotel in Columbus, Ohio, Jennie meets Senator George Brander, 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, but ill fortune intercedes and the Senator dies, leaving her pregnant. She gives birth to a daughter, Vesta, and moves to Cleveland where she finds work as a lady's maid to a prominent family. Consequently, she meets Lester Kane, a prosperous manufacturer's son. Jennie falls in love with him, impressed by his strong will and generosity. She leaves her daughter behind and they visit New York together. Kane, unaware that Jennie has a child, wishes to marry her, but, anticipating his family's disapproval, decides instead that she shall become his mistress. They live together successfully in Chicago, even through Jennie's revelation after three years that Vesta is her daughter. Kane does not yield to his family's pressure to leave Jennie, but after his father's death discovers that he will not inherit a substantial part of the family business unless he discards her. They visit Europe together, where Kane's attention shifts from Jennie to a woman of his own class, Letty Gerald. On hearing the will's terms, it is Jennie who demands that they separate. Kane, after providing for her, marries Letty and resumes his former social status. Jennie loses her daughter to typhoid and adopts two orphans, but through it all, continues to love him. Kane becomes ill. He tells Jennie he still loves her, and she tends him until his death, mourning secretly at his funeral. (wikipedia.org)

Zbrodnia i kara w realiach amerykańskiej prosperity.Na Clyde'a Griffithsa spadają konsekwencje jego podwójnego życia i złamania zasad panujących w firmie stryja. W momencie, gdy mężczyzna planuje zaręczyny z bogatą Sandrą, jego porzucona kochanka informuje go o ciąży. Clyde próbuje doprowadzić do usunięcia dziecka, ale okazuje się to nieskuteczne. Ślub z konieczności, w dodatku z ubogą robotnicą, nie wchodzi w grę, dlatego mężczyzna obmyśla inny sposób na pozbycie się kłopotu. Pisząc książkę, Dreiser inspirował się prawdziwą historią z kroniki kryminalnej.W 1951 r. George Stevens zekranizował powieść. W filmie pt. "Miejsce pod słońcem" jedną z głównych ról zagrała Elizabeth Taylor. Naturalistyczne opisy i bezkompromisowość w kreśleniu psychologii bohaterów sprawia, że książkę z pewnością docenią miłośnicy pisarstwa Émila Zoli czy Gabrieli Zapolskiej. Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) - amerykański powieściopisarze i dziennikarz, przedstawiciel naturalizmu w literaturze. Zafascynowany naturą i psychologią ludzi niemoralnych, którzy jednak uparcie prą do przodu i osiągają swoje cele. Do jego najsłynniejszych dzieł należą "Siostra Carrie" i "Tragedia amerykańska". Dreiser wywarł ogromny wpływ na kolejne pokolenia pisarzy, dziś jest uznawany za jednego z gigantów literatury amerykańskiej.

Based on a real-life murder case, An American Tragedy is the story of Clyde Griffiths, who longs to escape the impoverished life of his fanatically religious parents and achieve financial and social success. On a more profound level, the novel is a masterful portrayal of the society whose values both shape Clyde's ambitions and seal his wretched fate; it is an unsurpassed depiction of the harsh realities of American life and of the dark side of the American dream. Extraordinary in scope and power, vivid in its sense of wholesale human waste, unceasing in its rich compassion, An American Tragedy stands as Theodore Dreiser's supreme achievement.

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After becoming ill and losing her job, Carrie is taken in by a rich, handsome man who pays for her apartment and finds her work as an actress. But Carrie soon finds another man to take care of her, who happens to be married and a criminal.

As a young adult, Clyde must take menial jobs as a soda jerk, then as a bellhop to support his family. At the hotel, he is introduced to bouts of social drinking and sex with prostitutes.

Raised in the Midwest, Eugene Witla feels confined in the small town of his youth and longs to make something of himself. A painter, he enrolls at the Chicago Art Institute and moves to the city, where a life of desire, success, and disappointment awaits him. The "Genius" is a semi-autobiographical novel by Theodore Dreiser.

Released from prison, Frank Cowperwood invests what money he has left in a number of stocks, exploiting the recent Panic of 1873. A millionaire once more, Cowperwood leaves his native city for greener pastures, ending up in Chicago. There, he notices the need for a new railway system, and capitalizes on his discovery. The Titan is a novel by Theodore Dreiser.

Dissatisfied with life in her rural Wisconsin home, 18-year-old Caroline "Sister Carrie" Meeber takes the train to Chicago, where her older sister and her husband have agreed to take her in. Carrie soon embarks on a quest for work to pay rent to her sister and her husband, and takes a job running a machine in a shoe factory. Opportunities in the big city make her realize her own American Dream, first as a mistress to men that she perceives as superior, and later becoming a famous actress.

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Nostalgic scenes and quaint characters. That's what Theodore Dreiser expects to find when he sets off from New York City on a road trip with friend Franklin Booth to explore the Indiana of his childhood. What he finds is a rural countryside on the cusp of dramatic social and technological changes. In A Hoosier Holiday (1916), a forerunner to the American road novel, reality competes with nostalgia as writer Dreiser and illustrator Booth offer insightful meditations on rural America at the beginning of the 20th century.

This epic of class, ambition, and murder in the early twentieth century is “[a] masterpiece…America’s Crime and Punishment” (Kirkus Reviews).   Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy is the story of a weak-willed young man who is both a villain and a victim of the valueless, materialistic society around him. Inspired by the true story of an early twentieth-century murder and adapted into a classic film under the title A Place in the Sun, An American Tragedy follows Clyde Griffiths as he is drawn into a circle of wealthy friends despite his own poverty-stricken background. Leaving the needs of his family behind as he buys expensive presents to impress a rich girl, Clyde finds that his new life leads him into a tragedy born of recklessness. Yet he continues to yearn ambitiously for money and status—a desire that will be his downfall.   “Dreiser is widely regarded as the strongest of the novelists who have written about America as a business civilization. No one else confronted so directly the sheer intractability of American social life and institutions.”—The New Yorker

"Who were these people with money, and what had they done that they should enjoy so much luxury, where others as good seemingly as themselves had nothing? And wherein did these latter differ so greatly from the successful?"-Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy (1925)An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser is based on the 1906 murder of Grace Brown, her lover's immorality, and his subsequent trial. The novel, laced with dramatic intrigue, is on Time magazine's list of Top 100 All-Time novels. Dreiser's tale follows the life of Clyde Griffiths and his struggle to live a successful life. His ultimate desire for status and women thwart his life goal. A tragedy in all definitions of the term, this novel is for those interested in the human condition and the demise of a common man.