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Sister Carrie

Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser about a young

country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing

her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to men that

she perceives as superior and later as a famous actress.

Theodore Dreiser

The Financier

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).

Theodore Dreiser

Titan

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.

Theodore Dreiser

Twelve Men

Character sketches, combining the best of biography with the

finest of narrative - short and illustrative.

Theodore Dreiser

The Genius

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. Despite

heavy editing, The Genius was deemed so shocking that its sale

was immediately prohibited by the New York Society for the Suppression

of Vice. It was not released until 1923, and thereafter the

episode confirmed Dreiser's status as a writer ahead of his time.

Grace Miller White

Tess of the Storm Country

A girl from the dregs of society, loves a young Cornell University

student, and it works startling changes in her life and the lives of

those about her.

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George Eliot

Brother Jacob

Brother Jacob is Eliot's literary homage to Thackeray, a satirical

modern fable that draws telling parallels between eating and reading.

Revealing Eliot's deep engagement with the question of

whether there are 'necessary truths' independent of our perception

of them and the boundaries of art and the self.

Edith Wharton

The Touchstone

A young lawyer sells a package of love letters written to him over

the years by a distinquished novelist to raise money to pay for his

wedding to another woman. His secret comes back to haunt him

and, when he confesses to his wife, their marriage is reduced to

resigned coexistence.

Wilkie Collins

The Legacy of Cain

When a condemned woman asks the local Minister to take her

daughter home, the childless man is touched and finds himself unable

to refuse. Yet the prisoner is unrepentant of the murder of her

husband. Will her vices be passed on to this seemingly sweet

child?

Wilkie Collins

The Law and the Lady

Valeria Woodville's first act as a married woman is to sign her

name in the marriage register incorrectly, and this slip is followed

by the gradual disclosure of a series of secrets about her husband's

earlier life, each of which leads on to another set of questions and

enigmas. Her discoveries prompt her to defy her husband's authority,

to take the law into into a labyrinthine maze of false clues

and deceptive identities, in which the exploration of the tangled

workings of the mind becomes linked to an investigation into the

masquerades of femininity. Probably the first full-length novel

with a woman detective as its heroine, The Law and the Lady is a

fascinating example of Collins's later fiction. First published in

1875, it employs many of the techniques used in The Moonstone,

developing them in bizarre and unexpected ways, and in its Gothic

and fantastic elements The Law and the Lady adds a significant

dimension to the history of detective fiction.

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