1931 THEODORE DREISER ~ SIGNED ~ DAWN 1st RARE !
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HISTORY OF MYSELF. DAWN. Dreiser Theodore New York: Horace Liveright, Inc., 1931. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION #225 OF 275 COPIES only 245 copies for sale . Gilt stamped thick black cloth covered boards light scuffing light spine head edge scuffing else very good binding tight . " Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency .[ 1] ...His first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), tells the story of a woman who flees her country life for the city ( Chicago ) and falls into a wayward life. It sold poorly, but it later acquired a considerable reputation. (It was made into a 1952 film by William Wyler , which starred Laurence Olivier and Jennifer Jones .)He was a witness to a lynching in 1893 and wrote the short story, "Cracker," which appeared in Ainslee's Magazine in 1901. [7 ]His second novel, Jennie Gerhardt , was published in 1911. Many of Dreiser's subsequent novels dealt with social inequality. His first commercial success was An American Tragedy (1925), which was made into a film in 1931 and again in 1951 (as A Place
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