Theodore Dreiser

Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work. Carrie Meeber leaves her home in rural Wisconsin for a big city life in Chicago, and faces a series of strugglesprofessional, moral, and romanticbefore achieving success in the New York theater scene. This edition includes: -A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information -A chronology of the author's life and work -A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context -An outline of key themes and plot points to guide the reader's own interpretations -Detailed explanatory notes -Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work -Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction -A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience

Dreiser's captivating portraits of turn-of-the-century America's famous figures Before coming to national attention for his novel Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser worked for nearly a decade as a magazine editor and freelance writer. Now in paperback, Art, Music, and Literature, 1897-1902 collects a rich selection of Dreiser's brief, colorful articles and interviews with American artists, musicians, and writers during this period. His profiles and interviews include such notables as Alfred Stieglitz, William Dean Howells, and legendary impresario Major James Burton Pond, as well as numerous women artists, novelists, and musicians. The volume is liberally seasoned with period illustrations reproduced from the original publications, and Yoshinobu Hakutani's notes provide biographical details about Dreiser's various subjects.

Dreiser's captivating portraits of turn-of-the-century America's famous figures In this volume, liberally seasoned with period illustrations, Yoshinobu Hakutani has collected and annotated a rich selection of Theodore Dreiser's pre-fame writings on the cultural milieu of his day. In these brief essays, Dreiser sallies into the vibrant world of creative work in turn-of-the-century America. He inspects the eccentric and revealing paraphernalia of artists' studios, probes the work habits of writers, and goes behind the scenes in the popular song-writing business, where this week's celebrity is next week's has-been. He profiles famous figures and introduces numerous women artists, novelists, and musicians, including the prolific and tireless Amelia Barr (mother of fourteen children and author of thirty-two novels), the illustrator Alice B. Stephens, and the opera singer Lillian Nordica. Hakutani's notes provide biographical detail on dozens of now-obscure individuals mentioned by Dreiser.

Klajd Grifits, "srednij molodoj amerikanets s tipichno amerikanskim vzgljadom na zhizn", plemjannik bogatogo likurgskogo fabrikanta Semjuela Grifitsa, stremjaschijsja ljuboj tsenoj utverditsja v vysshem obschestve, zavodit roman s podrugoj svoej kuziny, 17-letnej Sondroj Finchli, - bogatoj naslednitsej drugogo mestnogo fabrikanta, krasivoj, izbalovannoj, samovljublennoj predstavitelnitsej "zolotoj molodezhi" goroda. Tjagotjas prodolzhajuschejsja ljubovnoj svjazju s prostoj fabrichnoj rabotnitsej Robertoj Olden, Klajd reshaet postavit tochku v otnoshenijakh s neju odnim udarom - kotoryj okazhetsja rokovym dlja nego samogo... "Amerikanskaja tragedija" (1925) - osnovannaja na realnykh sobytijakh kriminalno-sudebnaja istorija, psikhologicheskaja drama i odnovremenno surovaja otpoved "amerikanskoj mechte" - stala samym izvestnym romanom Teodora Drajzera i sjuzhetnoj osnovoj neskolkikh khudozhestvennykh filmov: ot klassicheskikh gollivudskikh kinoversij Dzhozefa fon Shternberga (1931) i Dzhordzha Stivensa (1951) do volnoj interpretatsii v "Match-pojnte" (2005) Vudi Allena. Perevodchiki: Gal Nora, Vershinina Zinaida

Teodor Drajzer - znamenityj amerikanskij pisatel i obschestvennyj dejatel. Ego knigi, takie kak "Amerikanskaja tragedija", "Sestra Kerri" i drugie, polzovalis ogromnym uspekhom u chitatelej vo vsem mire i do sikh por vyzyvajut samyj zhivoj interes. Odnim iz tsentralnykh proizvedenij Teodora Drajzera stala tak nazyvaemaja "Trilogija zhelanija", rasskazyvajuschaja o zhizni biznesmena Frenka Kaupervuda, u kotorogo byl prototip v realnoj zhizni - krupnyj finansist millioner Charlz Jerks. Napisannye v uvlekatelnoj manere, romany "Finansist", "Titan" i "Stoik" soderzhat v sebe vse neobkhodimye ingredienty velikolepnoj literatury: psikhologizm, umelo zakruchennyj sjuzhet, ljubovnye strasti i jarkuju kartinu tainstvennogo mira bolshogo biznesa. V seriju "Inostrannaja literatura. Bolshie knigi" voshli proizvedenija samykh znamenitykh v mire pisatelej, kotorye dolzhen prochitat kazhdyj. Knigi serii otmecheny bogatstvom tvorcheskogo voobrazhenija, sjuzhety ikh neverojatno interesny, razvjazki effektny, a chuvstva geroev silny i tragichny. Knigi izdajutsja v luchshikh perevodakh, nastojaschij podarok vsem tseniteljam uvlekatelnoj literatury. Knigi serii stanut zamechatelnym dopolneniem ljuboj domashnej biblioteki. Prekrasnoe oformlenie: udobnyj format, kachestvennaja bumaga, komfortnyj dlja chtenija shrift i jarkie zapominajuschiesja oblozhki. Perevodchik: Bogoslovskaja M., Volosov M., Kudrjavtseva T. A.

Opublikovannyj v 1900 godu debjutnyj roman Drajzera vyzval grandioznyj skandal - ego nazyvali beznravstvennym, bezbozhnym, tsinichnym i porochaschim amerikanskuju mechtu. Izvestnyj kritik pisal, chto "khvalit etot roman edva li ne tak zhe opasno, kak streljat v prezidenta". Tem ne menee "Sestru Kerri" khvaljat i ljubjat vot uzhe bolee sta let za ego uvlekatelnost i zhivost, za trogatelnuju geroinju, provintsialku Kerri Miber, priekhavshuju v ogromnyj gorod Chikago v poiskakh mechty...

V romane "Finansist", pervoj chasti "Trilogii zhelanija", Drajzer pokazyvaet nachalo karery Frenka Kaupervuda. V stremlenii poskoree priobresti bogatstvo i dostojnoe mesto v obschestve, ne umeja vovremja ostanovitsja, Kaupervud zaputyvaetsja kak v finansovykh delakh, tak i v delakh serdechnykh. Okazavshis v opasnoj situatsii, pod ugrozoj neminuemoj rasplaty, on delaet stavku na edinstvennogo cheloveka, sposobnogo ego spasti, - svoego glavnogo konkurenta.