Jennie Gerhardt - Softcover

Drieser, Theodore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 055321425X ISBN 13: 9780553214253

Publisher: Bantam Classics, 1993

Synopsis

Motivated by affection and a desire to help her family escape crushing poverty, Jennie Gerhardt submits to two wealthy men, in the classic work by the author of Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy. Reprint.

About this title

From the Publisher:

James L. W. West III is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University. He is the author of many books, including American Authors and the Literary Marketplace since 1900, an expansion of his 1983 Rosenbach Lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, and The Making of This Side of Paradise, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. His most recent books are William Styron: A Life (1998) and The Perfect Hour: The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King (2005).

From the Back Cover:

Focusing on Jennie Gerhardt, a poor young girl in Columbus, Ohio, Theodore Dreiser's novel depicts her inadvertently defying a host of conventions-of class, gender, family, and religion. Over a quarter of a century she is repeatedly victimized by circumstance, temperament, and most particularly the fact of her sex. Yet the triumph of the book lies in her incorrigibly loving nature. Cast out by society as well as by her family, she none the less fosters a far deeper understanding of relationships than anyone else. It is no surprise that she was her author's favourite heroine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Classics
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 055321425X
• ISBN 13: 9780553214253
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 464