The novel is followed by "A Note on the Text," which discusses the relationship between this edition s text and that of the Pennsylvania Edition (1981), and a "Textual Appendix," which provides a generous sampling of the cuts Dreiser and his friend Arthur Henry made in the typescript version of Sist[...]

A master of gritty naturalism, Theodore Dreiser explores the corruption of the American dream in "The Financier". Frank Cowperwood, a fiercely ambitious businessman, emerges as the very embodiment of greed as he relentlessly seeks satisfaction in wealth, women, and power. As Cowperwood deals and dou[...]

This epic of urban life tells of small- town heroine Carrie Meeber, adrift in an indifferent Chicago. Setting out, she has nothing but a few dollars and an unspoiled beauty. Hers is a story of struggle? from sweatshop to stage success?and of the love she inspires in an older, married man whose obses[...]

A source of inspiration to writers from William Faulkner to Saul Bellow and Joyce Carol Oates, Dreiser's remarkable first novel is an eminently American roller-coaster of rapidly rising and falling fortunes. Banned after its initial publication in 1900, its realist narrative counterplays the story o[...]

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.[...]