The 'Genius'
The 'Genius' is a semi-autobiographical novel by Theodore Dreiser, first published in 1915. It concerns Eugene Witla, a talented painter of strong sexual desires who grapples with his commitment to his art and the force of his erotic needs. The book sold 8,000 copies in the months immediately following publication but encountered legal difficulties when it was declared potentially obscene. Dreiser's publisher was nervous about continuing publication and recalled the book from bookstores, and the novel did not receive broad distribution until 1923. When The 'Genius' was reissued by a different publisher, the firm of Horace Liveright, it immediately sold more than 40,000 copies.
American Tragedy
An American Masterpiece Clyde Griffiths finds his social-climbing aspirations and love for a rich and beautiful debutante threatened when his lower-class pregnant girlfriend gives him an ultimatum.
Jennie Gerhardt
Jennie Gerhardt
Financier
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 we...
Sestra Kerri
Opublikovannaja v 1900 godu debjutnaja kniga Drajzera vyzvala grandioznyj skandal - ee nazvali beznravstvennoj, tsinichnoj i porochaschej 'amerikanskuju mechtu'. Kritiki pisali, chto 'khvalit etot roman edva li ne tak zhe opasno, kak streljat v prezidenta'. Odnako vposledstvii 'Sestra Kerri' stala odnim iz simvolov amerikanskogo realizma. Glavnaja geroinja, junaja naivnaja provintsialka Karolina Miber, priekhavshaja v Chikago v poiskakh schastja, predstaet ne bespomoschnoj zhertvoj i ne tsinichnoj malenkoj khischnitsej, a slozhnoj, mnogogrannoj lichnostju. V ee kharaktere egoizm sosedstvuet s blagorodstvom i iskrennostju, zhenstvennost - s rassudochnostju, a zhazhda uspekha - s gotovnostju dobitsja ego terpeniem i trudom.
Finansist. Titan. Stoik
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
Financier
First published in 1912, Theodore Dreiser's third novel, The Financier, captures the ruthlessness and sparkle of the Gilded Age alongside the charismatic amorality of the power brokers and bankers of the mid-nineteenth century. This volume is the ...
Sister Carrie
`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...
Sister Carrie
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 D...
Jennie Gerhardt
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.
Sister Carrie
A landmark in American literature, presented in its complete and unexpurgated version. Dreiser's unsparing story of a country girl's rise to riches as the mistress of a wealthy man marked the beginning of the naturalist movement in America. Both i...
Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory
Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory features pairs of newly commissioned essays by some of the leading theorists working in the field today. Brings together fresh debates on the most controversial issues in moral theory Questions include: Are mor...
Psychotherapy in Everyday Life
In this book, Dreier shows how clients make therapy work in their everyday lives. Therapy cannot fulfill its purpose until the clients can make it work outside the therapy room in relation to the concerns, people, and places of their everyday live...
Multicultural Manners
Both highly informative and entertaining, Multicultural Manners gives readers the understanding they need, the perfect words to say, and the correct behavior to use in a wide range of cross-cultural situations. This incisive and award-winning guid...
Japan
Japan
Malignant
'You have cancer.' Words no one wants to hear, but heard by millions every year. Millions more hear the equally shattering news that a loved one has cancer. Both are life-changing messages. For the people writing this book, cancer was not only a p...
Hans Kelsen zur Einführung
Hans Kelsen (1881-1973) gilt vielen als >der< Jurist des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sein Ruhm gründet sich auf seine ebenso oft gepriesene wie missverstandene »Reine Rechtslehre«, die 1934 in erster, 1960 in zweiter, deutlich erweiterter Auflage erschienen...