Free and Other Stories, Theodore Dreiser
Free and Other Stories, Theodore Dreiser
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Free and Other Stories

Author: Theodore Dreiser

Narrator: John Burlinson

Unabridged: 13 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/17/2023

Synopsis

This collection presents eleven of Dreiser’s best tales, ranging from trenchant social analysis to penetrating character study.One of Dreiser’s most powerful stories, “N****r Jeff” was occasioned when Dreiser was forced to witness a lynching, an experience that disturbed him deeply.

About Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945), American novelist, became known as one of the principal exponents of American naturalism, and in 1944, he was awarded the Merit Medal for Fiction by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He began his writing career as a newspaperman, working in Chicago, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh. With the publication of The Financier in 1912, he was able to give up newspaper work and devote himself to writing. In addition to novels, Dreiser, a socialist, wrote several nonfiction books on political issues. He was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, and attended Indiana University. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Masha on October 02, 2024

3.5 Вони круто написані, класичні собі класичні оповідання, які я люблю як жанр, але який же вони неприємний післясмак залишають 😕 злої згорьованості......more

Goodreads review by Tara on August 18, 2019

I love reading about New York. People speak of this city with such passion unlike any other place. Whether they love it or hate it, they all agree on one thing: the city is something more than to admire or hate. Once you visit, it becomes something personified. In "Free," Haymaker falls in love with......more

Goodreads review by Ellen on February 12, 2020

Free at last of this stupid book I suppose we are to gulp and gasp over this entirely predictable and meaningless ending. The poor guy was depressed and needed to be on Prozac. That would have fixed him right up. The woman died b /c the MD transfused her with horse blood. Who does that? The husband b......more

Quotes

“He is a great artist, and no other American of his generation left so wide and handsome a mark upon the national letters. American writing, before and after his time, differed almost as much as biology before and after Darwin. He was a man of large originality, of profound feeling, and of unshakable courage. All of us who write are better off because he lived, worked, and hoped.” H. L. Mencken

“Theodore Dreiser is a man who, with the passage of time, is bound to loom larger and larger in the awakening aesthetic consciousness of America. Among all of our prose writers he is one of the few men of whom it may be said that he has always been an honest workman, always impersonal, never a trickster. Read this book of Dreiser’s Free And Other Stories, and then compare it with a book of short stories, say by Bret Harte or O. Henry.” Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941)

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