Theodore Dreiser

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)

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)

Reproduction of the original: The "Genius" by Theodore Dreiser

Reproduction of the original: Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser

Reproduction of the original: The Genius by Theodore Dreiser

Reproduction of the original: Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser

Harlan Miners Speak, originally published in 1932, remains today a vivid record of the plight of coal miners in eastern Kentucky. Led by prominent left-leaning writers Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, and Sherwood Anderson, the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners traveled to Harlan County, Kentucky, in 1931 to examine the situation of the miners and their families.

The Philadelphia into which Frank Algernon Cowperwood was born was a city of two hundred and fifty thousand and more. It was set with handsome parks, notable buildings, and crowded with historic memories. Many of the things that we and he knew later were not then in existence-the telegraph, telephone, express company, ocean steamer, city delivery of mails. There were no postage-stamps or registered letters. The street car had not arrived. In its place were hosts of omnibuses, and for longer travel the slowly developing railroad system still largely connected by canals. Cowperwood's father was a bank clerk at the time of Frank's birth, but ten years later, when the boy was already beginning to turn a very sensible, vigorous eye on the world, Mr. Henry Worthington Cowperwood, because of the death of the bank's president and the consequent moving ahead of the other officers, fell heir to the place vacated by the promoted teller, at the, to him, munificent salary of thirty-five hundred dollars a year. At once he decided, as he told his wife joyously, to remove his family from 21 Buttonwood Street to 124 New Market Street, a much better neighborhood, where there was a nice brick house of three stories in height as opposed to their present two-storied domicile. There was the probability that some day they would come into something even better, but for the present this was sufficient. He was exceedingly grateful.

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"Titan" - vtoroj roman legendarnoj "Trilogii zhelanija" ("Finansist", "Titan", "Stoik"), v osnovu kotoroj polozhena istorija zhizni amerikanskogo millionera Charlza Jerksa. Frenk Kaupervud - genialnyj predprinimatel s bezoshibochnym delovym chutem, zhestkij i tsinichnyj biznesmen. Vyjdja iz filadelfijskoj tjurmy i sovershiv rjad udachnykh spekuljatsij vo vremja birzhevoj paniki, pozvolivshikh stat emu millionerom, on reshaet prodolzhit dejatelnost v Chikago. Igraja na tajnykh strakhakh i slabostjakh velikogo "goroda novoj promyshlennosti", on prodolzhaet svoj besposchadnyj put naverkh. Besprintsipnyj ne tolko v delakh, no i v lichnoj zhizni, Frenk ischet svoj ideal zhenschiny, perebiraja beschislennoe kolichestvo ljubovnits. On idet po opasnoj trope, privodjaschej ego k nogam Berenis - prelestnoj malenkoj khischnitsy, chja mat soderzhit tajnyj dom svidanij dlja politikov...

"Finansist" - pervaja kniga znamenitoj "Trilogii zhelanija" Teodora Drajzera, v osnovu sjuzheta kotoroj polozhena biografija amerikanskogo zheleznodorozhnogo magnata Charlza Jerksa. Glavnyj geroj, Frenk Kaupervud, razbogatel vsego za neskolko dnej vo mnogom blagodarja svoej udivitelnoj intuitsii. Obychnyj parenek iz malenkogo provintsialnogo gorodka, stav kommersantom i birzhevym igrokom, popadaet v mir roskoshi i bolshikh deneg: on okazyvaetsja v krugovorote krupnejshikh finansovykh operatsij, vraschaetsja v obschestve luchshikh deltsov svoego vremeni. Postepenno ambitsioznyj junosha prevraschaetsja v besprintsipnogo, vlastnogo i zhazhduschego nazhivy millionera.

Roman, priznannyj vershinoj tvorchestva Teodora Drajzera. Kniga, legshaja v osnovu kultovogo oskaronosnogo filma "Mesto pod solntsem". Surovaja otpoved "amerikanskoj mechte", osnovannaja na realnykh sobytijakh. Klajd Grifits, "srednij molodoj amerikanets s tipichno amerikanskim vzgljadom na zhizn", zhazhdet ljuboj tsenoj utverditsja v vysshem obschestve. Radi romana s bogatoj naslednitsej Sondroj Finchli on reshaet postavit tochku v otnoshenijakh s Robertoj, prostoj rabotnitsej fabriki, odnim rokovym udarom... Tak na nashikh glazakh nachinaet razvorachivatsja "Amerikanskaja tragedija" - iskljuchitelnaja po sile i razmakhu istorija ljubvi i predatelstva, ubijstva i raskajanija, illjuzij i ikh krushenija.

Vashemu vnimaniju predlagaetsja komplekt iz trekh knig Teodora Drajzera. "Finansist" - pervaja chast znamenitoj "Trilogii zhelanija" Teodora Drajzera, v osnovu kotoroj polozhena istorija zhizni amerikanskogo millionera Charlza Jerksa, sygravshego znachitelnuju rol v razrabotke sistemy obschestvennogo transporta v Chikago i Londonskogo metropolitena. Glavnyj geroj - Frenk Kaupervud - pojavljaetsja na svet v seme melkogo bankovskogo sluzhaschego, no blagodarja nezaurjadnomu umu, zheleznoj vole i neobychajnoj tseleustremlennosti zarabatyvaet ogromnoe sostojanie. On popadaet v mir roskoshi i bolshikh deneg, okazyvaetsja v krugovorote krupnejshikh finansovykh operatsij, vraschaetsja v obschestve luchshikh deltsov svoego vremeni. Postepenno ambitsioznyj junosha prevraschaetsja v besprintsipnogo, vlastnogo i zhazhduschego nazhivy millionera. Zhizn kak voploschenie amerikanskoj mechty, za kotoruju pridetsja dorogo zaplatit. I ne tolko dengami... "Titan" Vtoraja chast znamenitoj "Trilogii zhelanija" o finansiste Frenke Kaupervude, nachavshem vse snachala posle filadelfijskoj tjurmy. Burljaschij Chikago - i bolshoj biznes, politika, ljubov - vse podchinjaetsja vole glavnogo geroja. "Stoik" Vyshedshij posle smerti Teodora Drajzera, zakljuchitelnyj roman "Trilogii zhelanija" - "Stoik". Finansist-millioner pensionnogo vozrasta Frenk Kaupervud posle krakha v Chikago perenosit biznes v London - i po-prezhnemu dobivaetsja uspekha, odnako u smerti svoi plany...

Russian Edition. The Financier is a novel by Theodore Dreiser, based on real-life streetcar tycoon Charles Tyson Yerkes. Dreiser started writing his manuscript in 1911, and the following year published the first part of his lengthy work as The Financier. The second part appeared in 1914 as The Titan; the third volume of his Trilogy of Desire was also Dreiser's final novel, The Stoic in 1947. Американский исторический триллер «Финансист - это роман Теодора Драйзера, основанный на реальной истории транспортного магната Чарльза Тайсона Йеркса. Произведение повествует о первых шагах и становлении бизнеса финансового воротилы, промышленника и авантюриста Фрэнка Каупервуда. Начав с безобидных мелких биржевых спекуляций, Каупервуд постепенно расширяет бизнес, формирует инвестиционный капитал и вкладывается в коммерческий подкуп чиновников муниципалитета, чтобы незаконно получать городские транспортные концессии в Филадельфии. Драйзер начал писать свою рукопись в 1911 году, а в следующем году опубликовал первую часть «Трилогии желания под названием «Финансист . Вторая часть появилась в 1914 году с названием «Титан ; третьим томом был роман «Стоик (1947), ставший также последним произведением Драйзера. Три романа Драйзера о Каупервуде составляют так называемую «Трилогию желаний . Странное, казалось бы, название для истории жизни «героя капиталистического труда . Но именно желания, вернее их неистовая жажда, будет источником всех радостей и бед Фрэнка. Деньги - страсть, которая всегда была у него на первом месте. Искусство - его вторая страсть. Но все это меркнет по сравнению с третьей страстью Фрэнка - женщинами. Будучи человеком страстным и темпераментным, Фрэнк довольно рано связал себя узами брака. Его избранницей стала вдова, еще юная, но все же старше самого Фрэнка. Затем, как это обычно бывает, любовь, когда-то пылкая и неистовая, начала постепенно гаснуть, что сподвигнет его сделать одну из самых больших глупостей в своей жизни. Продолжение «Трилогии желан&#

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This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work. We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING