The Color of a Great City - Dreiser, Theodore
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FOREWORD My only excuse for offering these very brief pictures of the City of New York as it was between and or ', or thereabout, is that they are of the very substance of the city I knew in my early adventurings in it. Also, and more particularly, they represent in part, at least, certain phases which at that time most arrested and appealed to me, and which now are fast vanishing or are no more. I refer more particularly to such studies as The Bread-line, The Push-cart Man, The Toilers of the Tenements, Christmas in the Tenements, Whence the Song, and The Love Affairs of Little Italy. ……mehr

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FOREWORD My only excuse for offering these very brief pictures of the City of New York as it was between and or ', or thereabout, is that they are of the very substance of the city I knew in my early adventurings in it. Also, and more particularly, they represent in part, at least, certain phases which at that time most arrested and appealed to me, and which now are fast vanishing or are no more. I refer more particularly to such studies as The Bread-line, The Push-cart Man, The Toilers of the Tenements, Christmas in the Tenements, Whence the Song, and The Love Affairs of Little Italy. … CONTENTS Foreword The City of My Dreams The City Awakes The Waterfront The Log of a Harbor Pilot Bums The Michael J. Powers Association The Fire The Car Yard The Flight of Pigeons On Being Poor Six O'clock The Toilers of the Tenements The End of a Vacation The Track Walker The Realization of an Ideal The Pushcart Man A Vanished Seaside Resort The Bread-Line Our Red Slayer Whence the Song Characters The Beauty of Life A Wayplace of the Fallen Hell's Kitchen A Certain Oil Refinery The Bowery Mission The Wonder of the Water The Man on the Bench The Men in the Dark The Men in the Storm The Men in the Snow The Freshness of the Universe The Cradle of Tears When the Sails Are Furled The Sandwich Man The Love Affairs of Little Italy Christmas in the Tenements The Rivers of the Nameless Dead
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American author and journalist Theodore Dreiser (1871-December 28, 1945) was a naturalist. In several of his works, the main characters achieved their goals despite the absence of a clear moral code. The best-known books of Dreiser are An American Tragedy and Sister Carrie (1900). John Paul Dreiser and Sarah Maria (née Schanab), his parents, welcomed him into the world in Terre Haute, Indiana. German immigrant John Dreiser came to Prussia from Mayen in the Rhine Province. Near Dayton, Ohio, Sarah was a native of a Mennonite agricultural village. Dreiser began working for newspapers in Chicago, Saint Louis, Toledo, Pittsburgh, and New York in 1892 as a reporter and theatrical critic. An American Tragedy, which was published in 1925, was Dreiser's first literary triumph. His older brother Paul Dresser, who rose to fame as a musician in the 1890s, was the subject of Dreiser's short tale "My Brother Paul." In 1918, he released his first collection of short tales, Free and Other Stories. The idea of poverty and ambition is continued in his poem "The Aspirant" from 1929.