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As of 13 February 2024, Project Gutenberg had reached 70,000 items in its collection of free eBooks. [4] The releases are available in plain text as well as other formats, such as HTML, PDF, EPUB, MOBI, and Plucker wherever possible. Most releases are in the English language, but many non-English works are also available. There are multiple ...
A kinetoscope film of turn-of-the-century Chicago, the initial setting of Sister Carrie. Sister Carrie is a 1900 novel by Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) about a young woman who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream. She first becomes a mistress to men that she perceives as superior, but later becomes a famous ...
In the Gutenberg version of 'Sister Carrie', it reads "At Rector's Drouet had met Mr. G. W. Hurstwood, manager of Fitzgerald and Moy's." Note also "His [Drouet's] preference for Fitzgerald and Moy's Adams Street place was another yard off the same cloth." Vamsee is right about the Google quotes, however.
In Book I, Eugene Witla (like Sister Carrie, in Dreiser's earlier novel) escapes the confines of the small town in Illinois where he has been raised to make his way in Chicago. There he studies painting at the Chicago Art Institute and enjoys the excitement of the city and his first sexual experiences.
Back in the 1450s, when the Bible became the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type, Johannes Gutenberg was a man with a plan. The German inventor decided to make the most of ...
Jennie Gerhardt is a destitute young woman. While working in a hotel in Columbus, Ohio, Jennie meets George Brander, a United States Senator, who becomes infatuated with her.
Sister Carrie is an opera by Robert Livingstone Aldridge to a libretto by Herschel Garfein based upon Theodore Dreiser's 1900 novel of the same name about a country girl's pursuit of the American Dream. The opera premiered in Milwaukee by Florentine Opera on October 7, 2016. [1]
An American Tragedy is a 1925 novel by American writer Theodore Dreiser.He began the manuscript in the summer of 1920, but a year later abandoned most of that text. It was based on the notorious murder of Grace Brown in 1906 and the trial of her lover, Chester Gillette.