The third volume, a conclusion to the Trilogy of Desire, was published in 1947 after two years of the author’s death. There Dreiser described the last London period in the life of the outstanding American financier, millionaire, and developer of a public transport network in Chicago – Frank Algernon Cowperwood. Continue reading →

The second volume of the Trilogy of Desire was published in May, 1914. There Dreiser described the main Chicago period in the life of the talented financier – Frank Algernon Cowperwood. Continue reading →

The first volume of the Trilogy of Desire was published in 1912. There Dreiser describes the early Philadelphian period in the life of the prosperous financier Frank Algernon Cowperwood as well as business and moral problems related to it. Continue reading →

The novel “An American Tragedy” published in 1925. It based on a real event, when Chester Gillette murdered his girl-friend Grace Brown, which happened nineteen years earlier. In the aspect of ideology, “An American Tragedy” was an imaginative response to light novels, published in the USA in early XX century, which cultivated in the country’s population the idea that one of the ways to realize the famous “American dream” can be “Cinderella’s trail”: a poor young man meets a girl from a well-to-do family, marries her, receives a very handsome dower and takes a high position in society. By his novel, Dreiser made an attempt to dispel this myth, having pointed out its inadequacy in conditions of usual American realia. Continue reading →

Theodore Dreiser’s first novel came out in 1900. At first, it did not receive any warm welcome with the public and the critics. “Sister Carrie” was rejected as it was considered immoral and discrepant to traditional American values. In America it was published in an edition of one thousand copies. In England “Sister Carrie” was accepted more favourably; after that, in 1907, it was republished in the USA and enjoyed first local and then global appreciation. Continue reading →