Theodore Dreiser

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Znamenityj amerikanskij romanist Teodor Drajzer, sozdatel "Sestry Kerri" i "Dzhenni Gerkhardt", "Genija" i "Amerikanskoj tragedii", "Trilogii zhelanija" i "Oplota", byl takzhe avtorom neskolkikh knig maloj prozy, samoj rannej iz kotorykh stal sbornik "Osvobozhdenie" i drugie rasskazy" (1918). Na ego stranitsakh chitatel najdet urbanisticheskie zarisovki gigantskogo ljudskogo muravejnika - Nju-Jorka - i koloritnye kartiny budnej zakholustnykh gorodov i selskikh mestechek Srednego Zapada; okrashennye legkoj avtorskoj ironiej ocherki nravov i tonkie psikhologicheskie etjudy; pronzitelnye opisanija chastnykh tragedij i gorkie razmyshlenija o tom, skol dramatichen chelovecheskij udel, predopredelennyj sudboj, prirodoj i obschestvom. Reportazhno tochnye, ispolnennye emotsij, kollizij, zrimykh primet i intonatsij, pocherpnutykh iz realnoj zhizni, rasskazy Drajzera podchas avtobiografichny i neredko predvoskhischajut temy i sjuzhetnye situatsii ego romanov. Bolshinstvo proizvedenij, voshedshikh v sbornik, publikuetsja v novykh perevodakh. Perevodchiki Antonov S., Kalnitskaja Darja, Oblonskaja Raisa Efimovna

"Titan" - vtoroj roman legendarnoj "Trilogii zhelanija" ("Finansist", "Titan", "Stoik"), v osnovu kotoroj polozhena istorija zhizni amerikanskogo millionera Charlza Jerksa. Frenk Kaupervud - predprinimatel s bezoshibochnym delovym chutem, zhestkij i tsinichnyj biznesmen. Vyjdja iz filadelfijskoj tjurmy i sovershiv rjad udachnykh spekuljatsij vo vremja birzhevoj paniki, pozvolivshej 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...

V odnom tome publikuetsja znamenitaja "Trilogija zhelanija" izvestnogo amerikanskogo pisatelja Teodora Drajzera (1871-1945) - "Finansist" (1912), "Titan" (1914) i "Stoik" (1947).

Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) 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. --- In Dreiser's first story, "McEwen of the Shining Slave Makers", the title figure dreams he is a black ant engaged in a giant struggle against red ant tribes.

Sometime after being released from prison, Frank invests in stocks subsequent to the Panic of 1873, and becomes a millionaire again. He decides to move out of Philadelphia and start a new life in the West. He moves to Chicago with Aileen and his attorney is finally able to persuade Lillian to agree to a divorce. Frank decides to take over the street-railway system.

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.

Jennie Gerhardt, a destitute young woman, meets Senator Brander in Columbus, Ohio. He seduces her and gives her money to tide them over... We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

In Philadelphia, Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first money passing by an auction sale, he successfully bids for seven cases of Castile soap, which he sells to a grocer the same day with a profit of over 70 percent. Later, he gets a job in Henry Waterman & Company, and leaves it for Tighe & Company. He also marries an affluent widow, in spite of his young age. Over the years, he starts misusing municipal funds with the aid of the City Treasurer.

The Titan is a novel written by Theodore Dreiser in 1914. It is Dreiser's sequel to The Financier. Cowperwood moves to Chicago with his new wife Aileen. He decides to take over the street-railway system.

Sometime after being released from prison, Frank invests in stocks subsequent to the Panic of 1873, and becomes a millionaire again. He decides to move out of Philadelphia and start a new life in the West. He moves to Chicago with Aileen and his attorney is finally able to persuade Lillian to agree to a divorce. Frank decides to take over the street-railway system. He bankrupts several opponents with the help of John J. McKenty and other political allies.

Based on the life of flamboyant financier C. T. Yerkes, Dreiser's portrayal of the unscrupulous magnate Cowperwood embodies the idea that behind every great fortune there is a crime. You don't read Dreiser for literary finesse, but his great intensity and keen journalistic eye give this portrait a powerful reality.

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.

Theodore Dreiser heavily invested himself in The Genius, an autobiographical novel first published in 1915. Thoroughly immersed in the turn-of-the-century art scene, The Genius explores the multiple conflicts between art and business, art and marriage, and between traditional and modern views of sexual morality.

Published in 1912, The Financier, a novel by Theodore Dreiser, is the first volume of the Trilogy of Desire, which includes The Titan (1914) and The Stoic (1947).

When Frank Algernon Cowperwood emerged from the Eastern District Penitentiary in Philadelphia he realized that the old life he had lived in that city since boyhood was ended. His youth was gone, and with it had been lost the great business prospects of his earlier manhood. He must begin again. It would be useless to repeat how a second panic following upon a tremendous failure-that of Jay Cooke & Co.-had placed a second fortune in his hands. This restored wealth softened him in some degree. Fate seemed to have his personal welfare in charge. He was sick of the stock-exchange, anyhow, as a means of livelihood, and now decided that he would leave it once and for all. He would get in something else-street-railways, land deals, some of the boundless opportunities of the far West. Philadelphia was no longer pleasing to him. Though now free and rich, he was still a scandal to the pretenders, and the financial and social world was not prepared to accept him. He must go his way alone, unaided, or only secretly so, while his quondam friends watched his career from afar. So, thinking of this, he took the train one day, his charming mistress, now only twenty-six, coming to the station to see him off.