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Theodore Dreiser
Book by Matthiessen, Francis Otto
267 pages, Hardcover
First published March 20, 1973
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August 23, 2024
A concise and wonderfully objective overview of Dreiser’s work.
December 12, 2025
During Dreiser's newspaper days, he sought out a number of famous personalities as they passed through the city. "He had the same 'favorite question' for all of them: 'What did they think about life?'"
"Ernest Boyd summed up his impression of Dreiser on these evenings: 'Out of all those laborious platitudes on wealth and art and sex and economics, those proofs of technical helplessness in the art of writing, there emerged a picture of a man of unspoiled sensitiveness to the storm and stress of Nature, of an elemental energy and passionate desire to understand.'"
"Ernest Boyd summed up his impression of Dreiser on these evenings: 'Out of all those laborious platitudes on wealth and art and sex and economics, those proofs of technical helplessness in the art of writing, there emerged a picture of a man of unspoiled sensitiveness to the storm and stress of Nature, of an elemental energy and passionate desire to understand.'"
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