The Color of a Great City

Dreiser, Theodore

ISBN 10: 1636370349 / ISBN 13: 9781636370347

Published by Bibliotech Press, 2020

Seller Inventory # ABLIING23Mar2811580204236

Synopsis:

FOREWORD
My only excuse for offering these very brief pictures of the City of New York as it was between  and  or ’, or thereabout, is that they are of the very substance of the city I knew in my early adventurings in it. Also, and more particularly, they represent in part, at least, certain phases which at that time most arrested and appealed to me, and which now are fast vanishing or are no more. I refer more particularly to such studies as The Bread-line, The Push-cart Man, The Toilers of the Tenements, Christmas in the Tenements, Whence the Song, and The Love Affairs of Little Italy. …

CONTENTS
Foreword  
The City of My Dreams   
The City Awakes  
The Waterfront  
The Log of a Harbor Pilot   
Bums   
The Michael J. Powers Association   
The Fire   
The Car Yard  
The Flight of Pigeons  
On Being Poor  
Six O’clock   
The Toilers of the Tenements 
The End of a Vacation  
The Track Walker   
The Realization of an Ideal   
The Pushcart Man   
A Vanished Seaside Resort  
The Bread-Line   
Our Red Slayer  
Whence the Song   
Characters   
The Beauty of Life 
A Wayplace of the Fallen 
Hell’s Kitchen   
A Certain Oil Refinery   
The Bowery Mission   
The Wonder of the Water  
The Man on the Bench   
The Men in the Dark   
The Men in the Storm  The Men in the Snow   
The Freshness of the Universe  
The Cradle of Tears   
When the Sails Are Furled   
The Sandwich Man   
The Love Affairs of Little Italy   
Christmas in the Tenements
The Rivers of the Nameless Dead 

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Color of a Great City
Publisher: Bibliotech Press
Publication Date: 2020
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New