Sister Carrie is one of a specific handful of American novels that I learned about in school, but (until now) never actually read. Along with those of Upton Sinclair, H.L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, Edward Bellamy and to a certain extent Stephen Crane, the works of Theodore Dreiser were always pre...
Эта действительно прекрасная книга! не удивительно, что Гений являлся любимым произведением Драйзера... это своего рода автобиографический роман автора, где главным героем является художник, который переживает взлеты и горькие падения...Роман поразил своим реалистичным, ярким и увлекательным опис...
Our civilisation is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason. On the tiger no responsibility rests. We see him aligned by nature with the forces of life—he is born into their kee...
In such instances the will and the courage confronted by some great difficulty which it can neither master nor endure, appears in some to recede in precipitate flight, leaving only panic and temporary unreason in its wake. And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a...