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Jennie Gerhardt: Original Text
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RomanceClassic FictionGeneral Fiction
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ISBN13: 9798685822918
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 13 2020
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 13 2020
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Jennie Gerhardt was Theodore Dreiser's second novel and his first true commercial success. Today it is generally regarded as one of his three best novels, along with Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy. But the text of Jennie Gerhardt heretofore known to readers is quite different from the text as Dreiser originally wrote it. In the tradition of the University of Pennsylvania Dreiser Edition, James L. W. West III has recaptured the text as it was originally written, restoring it to its complete, unexpurgated form. As submitted to Harper and Brothers in 1911, Jennie Gerhardt was a powerful study of a woman tragically compromised by birth and fate. Harpers agreed to publish the book but was nervous about its subject matter and moral stance. Jennie has an illegitimate child by one man and lives out of wedlock with another - but Dreiser does not condemn her for her behavior.