An Amateur Laborer

by Theodore Dreiser, Richard W. Dowell (Editor), James L. W. West III (Editor)

Overview

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812278903
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	10/29/1983
Series:	Anniversary Collection
Edition description:	Reprint 2016 ed.
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Editorial Reviews

"The closest thing to Dostoyevsky's Notes From Underground an American ever wrote."—The Nation

"A wonderful enterprise. Here, recovered, is Dreiser's first fal from the heights of Sister Carrie, and his standing up and his dusting himself off."—E. L. Doctorow, New York Times

"Dreiser's own fascinating account of his mental and spiritual crackup. . . . Certainly in all American literature there is no such moving personal account."—Chicago Tribune

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