Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser
Jennie Gerhardt is a working-class girl whose harsh German father forces her to leave home when he discovers she is pregnant. Left in a lurch by the Ohio senator who dies before he can fulfill his promise to marry her, Jennie becomes the mistress of Lester Kane.
Theodore Dreiser(1871-1945) was born in Terre Haute, Indiana. After a poor and difficult childhood, Dreiser broke into newspaper work in Chicago in 1892. A successful career as a magazine writer in New York during the late 1890s was followed by his first novel, Sister Carrie (1900). When this work made little impact, Dreiser published no fiction until Jennie Gerhardt in 1911. There then followed a decade and a half of major work in a number of literary forms, which was capped in 1925 by An American Tragedy, a novel that brought him universal acclaim. Dreiser was increasingly preoccupied by philosophical and political issues during the last two decades of his life. He died in Los Angeles.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780140187106 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140187103 |
| Title | Jennie Gerhardt |
| Author | Theodore Dreiser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1994-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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