By Leonard Cassuto
This significant other offers clean views at the often learn Dreiser classics, Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy, in addition to on issues of perennial curiosity, which come with Dreiser's illustration of town and his prose kind. the quantity investigates his illustration of masculinity and femininity, and his therapy of ethnicity, between different subject matters.
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