Chapter I
The Philadelphia into which Frank Algernon Cowperwood
was born was a city of two hundred and fifty thousand
and more. It was set with handsome parks, notable
buildings, and crowded wit...
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Biography EssayHenry David Thoreau, Living Thoughts of Thoreau, selected, with an introduction, by Dreiser (New York: Longmans, Green, 1938). Theodore Dreiser is one of the most significant and most...
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American novelist Herman Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) projected a vitality and an honesty that established several of his novels as classics of world literature.Like other naturalistic novelists of th...
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Theodore Dreiser now seems securely established as the principal American novelist in the tradition of naturalistic fiction, which includes his European counterparts Emile Zola and Honoré de B...
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Theodore Dreiser is one of the most significant and most problematical of American writers. His place in American literary history is secure. The acknowledged "trailblazer" for a generation of early t...
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Although Theodore Dreiser--generally considered the foremost writer in the tradition of American literary naturalism--is principally important as a novelist, he made a significant contribution to the ...
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Theodore Dreiser's position in American literature is undeniably secure, primarily based on his novels Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925). However, in addition to Dreiser the novelist...
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A U.S. Treasury official in Beijing for negotiations with North Korea over its alleged illicit financial dealings said Tuesday he was "hopeful" of progress, as a report indicated full talks on the ...
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A U.S. Treasury official arrived in Beijing Sunday to resume negotiations with North Korea over alleged illicit financial dealings, an issue that has hobbled the North Korean nuclear disarmament ta...
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North Korea repeated its demand during talks with the United States this week that Washington lift financial restrictions on the communist regime, a pro-Pyongyang newspaper reported Thursday.Expert...
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Affluent young couples are flocking south of Chambers Street—and staying there—perhaps forever transforming the financial district, New York City’s oldest neighborhood.
The Allian...
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New York (dpa) - The world of financial and business media
currently finds itself in a state of upheaval comparable to almost
nothing it's ever experienced.
F...
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Beijing (dpa) - The Chinese government pressured the World Bank to
drop statistics in an environmental report that put the number of
premature deaths in the country caused b...
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The Financier, a novel
Herman Theodore Dreiser
Theodore (Herman Albert) Dreiser
U.S. to discuss finances with N. Korea
