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(drī′sər, -zər), Theodore Herman Albert 1871-1945.

American writer and editor whose naturalistic novels, such as Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925), portray life as a struggle against ungovernable forces.

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Dreiser

(ˈdraɪsə; -zə)

(Biography) Theodore (Herman Albert). 1871–1945, US novelist; his works include Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925)

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Drei•ser

(ˈdraɪ sər, -zər)

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Theodore, 1871–1945, U.S. novelist.

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The storylines involving social competition and violent death feel like a reworking, from a young female perspective, of Theodore Dreiser's classic 1925 melodrama An American Tragedy.

In the swamps of North Carolina

In the case of A Place in the Sun the curiosity arises from the fact that the film is an updated adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's 1925 novel, the bluntly named An American Tragedy.

ALOHA FROM LOON LAKE: A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951) AND THE SOUTH SEAS TRADITION

The story unfolded here principally involves two well-known writers from the early-twentieth century, Theodore Dreiser and Edith Wharton, and three others whom few today read, Robert Grant (1852-1940), Robert Herrick (1868-1938), and Booth Tarkington (1869-1946).

THE SECOND PHASE OF REALISM IN AMERICAN FICTION: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SOCIAL SELF

Walking through the show, I was reminded of Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900), whose titular protagonist, a showgirl in Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century, rises over the course of the novel from obscure penury to fame and riches through a series of decisions both cunning and lucky.

MAKE IT RAIN: Naomi Fry on Lauren Greenfield's "Generation Wealth"

Eliot, William Faulkner, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson, Willa Cather, Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, Langston Hughes, and John Steinbeck.

Beyond Gatsby: How Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Writers of the 1920s Shaped American Culture

CONSIDERING HOW OFTEN THE WORD "TRAGEDY" APPEARS IN THEODORE Dreiser's writing, there has been little serious scholarly attention paid to its role in his impressive body of work.

Lynching as an American Tragedy in Theodore Dreiser

The first of these books, Theodore Dreiser's Chicago novel Sister Carrie (1900), captures the on-coming consumption culture and the rapid urban growth of the 19th century, as well as the city's alluring glow that hides a well of despair.

The urban space in fiction

Eby analyzes Theodore Dreiser's 1915 novel The "Genius," a fictionalization of his marriage to Sara White Dreiser that famously rejected the institution, in relation to a 1911 version titled The Genius.

Until Choice Do Us Part: Marriage Reform in the Progressive Era

Showcasing 35 particularly influential men and women ranging from Henry David Thoreau; Theodore Dreiser; Sylvia Beach; and Gertrude Stein; to Ralph Ellison, Jack Kerouac; Simone de Beauvoir; and Hunter S.

The Underground Reader

The young Saul, then called Solomon or Shloimke, spent his free days at the public library reading Theodore Dreiser and Sherwood Anderson.

Saul Bellow Is Having a Very Quiet 100th Birthday

Lennon discussed, comparatively, Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy

AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY AND THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG: RECEPTIONS AND CONTROVERSIES

"The Game as it is Played": Essays on Theodore Dreiser

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