Jennie Gerhardt - Softcover

Dreiser, Theodore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 055321425X ISBN 13: 9780553214253

Publisher: Bantam Classic & Loveswept, 1993

Synopsis

Motivated by affection and a desire to help her family escape crushing poverty, Jennie Gerhardt submits to two wealthy men, in the classic work by the author of Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy. Reprint.

About this title

Review:

"The best American novel I have ever read, with the lonesome but Himalayan exception of Huckleberry Finn."—H. L. Mencken

"For Dreiser, Jennie Gerhardt was a good career move. Now, with this Pennsylvania edition, we know that it is also a great novel."—New York Times

About the Author:

Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945), American novelist, was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, and attended Indiana University. He began his writing career as a newspaperman, working in Chicago, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh. His first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), was purchased by a publisher who thought it objectionable and made little effort to promote its sale. With the publication of The Financier in 1912, he was able to give up newspaper work and devote himself to writing. He 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Classic & Loveswept
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 055321425X
• ISBN 13: 9780553214253
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback