Notes on Life - Hardcover

Dreiser, Theodore; Marguerite Tjader & John J. McAleer (Eds) & John Cowper Powys (Intro)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0817385800 ISBN 13: 9780817385804

Publisher: University of Alabama Press, 1974

Synopsis

Notes on LifeAuthor: Theodore DreiserTitle: Notes on LifePublication: The University of Alabama PressEdition: FIRST EDITIONDescription: First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by The University of Alabama Press, 1974. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good with shelf wear and light edgewear. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.Seller ID: 336882Subject: Essays We Buy Books! Collections - Libraries - Estates - Individual Titles. Message us if you have books to sell!

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About the Author

Theodore Dreiser,  (1871—1945), is one of the preeminent American novelists of the early twentieth century. His two best-known novels, Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925) were ranked 33rd and 16th (respectively) on the Modern Library's 1998 list of the Best English-Language Novels of the 20th Century. Dreiser was also a prolific non-fiction writer, including his Notes on Life, which was published posthumously.

Review

"An indispensable book for those who would relate Dreiser's philosophy to his fiction."  —Antioch Review

"It should be stated at once that Notes on Life is an essential book. --Dreiser Newsletter

"His mind was predominantly attracted by the chemical changes and mutations of the elements. It was not only that such chemical phenomena fascinated him. They haunted him. They obsessed him. They were a mania with him. He was always seeing humanity in relation to the mysterious movements and transformations of the various atomic and electric events and occasions and energies and impressions, apprehended by our senses and worked over by our conscious minds, we accept as the palpable shapes and textures of the visible world. For Dreiser the psychic and the physical world were never divided. He was always seeing mountains as men and men as atoms, and men and mountains and atoms as transitory bubbles in an unfathomable flood of Being, of which there was neither beginning nor end, and where reality was always turning into illusion and illusion into reality." --from John Cowper Powys' Introduction to Notes on Life 

 

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Alabama Press
• Publication date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0817385800
• ISBN 13: 9780817385804
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256