• Anglický jazyk

The Color of a Great City

Autor: Theodore Dreiser

FOREWORD

My only excuse for offering these very brief pictures of the City of New York as it was between and or ', or thereabout, is that they are of the very substance of the city I knew in my early adventurings in it. Also, and more particularly,... Viac o knihe

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FOREWORD

My only excuse for offering these very brief pictures of the City of New York as it was between and or ', or thereabout, is that they are of the very substance of the city I knew in my early adventurings in it. Also, and more particularly, they represent in part, at least, certain phases which at that time most arrested and appealed to me, and which now are fast vanishing or are no more. I refer more particularly to such studies as The Bread-line, The Push-cart Man, The Toilers of the Tenements, Christmas in the Tenements, Whence the Song, and The Love Affairs of Little Italy. …
CONTENTS

Foreword

The City of My Dreams

The City Awakes

The Waterfront

The Log of a Harbor Pilot

Bums

The Michael J. Powers Association

The Fire

The Car Yard

The Flight of Pigeons

On Being Poor

Six O'clock

The Toilers of the Tenements

The End of a Vacation

The Track Walker

The Realization of an Ideal

The Pushcart Man

A Vanished Seaside Resort

The Bread-Line

Our Red Slayer

Whence the Song

Characters

The Beauty of Life

A Wayplace of the Fallen

Hell's Kitchen

A Certain Oil Refinery

The Bowery Mission

The Wonder of the Water

The Man on the Bench

The Men in the Dark

The Men in the Storm The Men in the Snow

The Freshness of the Universe

The Cradle of Tears

When the Sails Are Furled

The Sandwich Man

The Love Affairs of Little Italy

Christmas in the Tenements

The Rivers of the Nameless Dead

  • Vydavateľstvo: Bibliotech Press
  • Rok vydania: 2020
  • Formát: Paperback
  • Rozmer: 229 x 152 mm
  • Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
  • ISBN: 9781636370347

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