A Traveler at Forty (The Dreiser Edition) - Hardcover

Theodore Dreiser

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252029135 ISBN 13: 9780252029134

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2005

Synopsis

 
 
Before publishing Dreiser's European travel book in 1913, the Century Company editors had heavily excised autobiographical reminiscences, philosophical speculations, revealing portraits of prominent figures, Dreiser's relationships with women, and his carefully observed renditions of lower-class urban life. This newly edited text is based on the typescript that Dreiser himself had prepared from his holograph in order to preserve it fully for future publication. The text reveals Dreiser's multiple motives in going to Europe--not least the cultivation of his reputation in England and the exploration of his ancestral roots in Germany. The earlier edition is about places; this fuller text is about Dreiser himself.
 

About this title

About the Author:

Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) is a major American novelist of powerful and unstinting realism. His career peaked with a sequence of masterpieces, including Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, The Financier, and An American Tragedy.Renate von Bardeleben, a professor of American literature at the University of Mainz in Germany, is the author or editor of nine books and an internationally respected Dreiser scholar.
 

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0252029135
• ISBN 13: 9780252029134
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1008
• Editor: Renate Von Bardeleben