Скачать книгу (размер 4 430 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 870) Аннотация: A tremendous bestseller when it was published in 1925, «An American Tragedy» is the culmination of Theodore Dreiser's elementally powerful fictional art. Revised reissue.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: `When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse'. The tale of Carrie Meeber's rise to stardom in the theatre and George Hurstwood's slow decline captures the twin poles of exuberance and exhaustion in modern city life as never before. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: 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 double-deals, betrays and is in turn betrayed, his rise and fall come to represent the American…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 079 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 409) Аннотация: »American writing, before and after Dreiser's time, differed almost as much as biology before and after Darwin», said H.L. Mencken. Sister Carrie, Dreiser's great first novel, transformed the conventional «fallen woman» story into a bold and truly innovative piece of fiction when it appeared in 1900. Naive young Caroline Meeber, a small-town girl seduced by the lure of the modern city, becomes…