Although world-famous for his novels Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt, Theodore Dreiser was also highly accomplished in journalism, autobiography, and travel writing. In 1919, having recently accepted the publishing contract of a new publisher, Boni and Liveright, Dreiser proposed to publish a "book of characters" that would collect twelve biographical sketches of individuals who were major influences on Dreiser, both as a man and as a writer. The resulting narratives combine the best attributes of the character sketch, the autobiography, and the short story into miniature masterpieces of prose.
The men profiled in Twelve Men are a diverse and colorful group: from Dreiser's equally famous brother, the songwriter Paul Dresser ("My Brother Paul"), to the entirely obscure railroad foreman Michael Burke ("The Mighty Rourke"), on whose work crew Dreiser had labored in 1903. The twelve narratives are compelling portraits of the men portrayed, but they also reveal many insights into Dreiser's own life and work. These factors elevate the significance of Twelve Men to a level consistent with other major works in the Dreiser canon.
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IN any group of men I have ever known, speaking from the point of view of character and not that of physical appearance, Peter would stand out as deliciously and irrefutably different. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Charlie Potter, Long Island, Misha Rook, Uncle Bobby, Wall Street, Baptist Church, Christmas Eve, Civil War, Elihu Burridge, Jasus Christ, New England, East Side, Mount Vernon, Sister Carrie New!
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IN any group of men I have ever known, speaking from the point of view of character and not that of physical appearance, Peter would stand out as deliciously and irrefutably different. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
periodical versions, true patriarch, island cabin, local supremacy, beautiful lamp, grassy surface Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Charlie Potter, Long Island, Misha Rook, Uncle Bobby, Wall Street, Baptist Church, Christmas Eve, Civil War, Elihu Burridge, Jasus Christ, New England, East Side, Mount Vernon, Sister Carrie New!
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- Twelve Men (The Works Of Theodore Dreiser) by Theodore Dreiser on 38 pages
- Sister Carrie (Signet Classics) by Theodore Dreiser on 5 pages
- An Amateur Laborer (The University of Pennsylvania Dreiser Edition) by Theodore Dreiser on 4 pages
- An American Tragedy (Signet Classics) by Theodore Dreiser on 4 pages
- A Hoosier Holiday by Theodore Dreiser in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Leonard Cassuto on 12 pages
- Newspaper Days (The University of Pennsylvania Dreiser Edition) by Theodore Dreiser on 7 pages
- Prometheans: Ancient and Modern by Burton Rascoe on 4 pages
- Profound Science and Elegant Literature: Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century America by Stephanie P. Browner on 4 pages
- The Ferment of Realism: American Literature 1884-1919 by Warner Berthoff on page 221, page 237, and page 244
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