Fils d'évangélistes errants, Clyde Griffiths vit mal la mendicité dévote de ses parents. Devenu jeune homme, il trouve un emploi dans un hôtel de luxe, où la richesse des autres l'éblouit. Mêlé par insouciance à une sinistre affaire, il fuit la ville et se réfugie auprès d'un oncle fortuné, propriétaire d'une usine. Faible, vaniteux, ignorant, sensuel, attiré par le fruit défendu, Clyde séduit une petite ouvrière, Roberte Alden, qui le croit sincèrement amoureux d'elle. Mais lors d'une soi...

Ambitious, but ill-educated, naïve, and immature, Clyde Griffiths is raised by poor and devoutly religious parents to help in their street missionary work. As a young adult, Clyde must, to help support his family, take menial jobs as a soda jerk, then a bellhop at a prestigious Kansas City hotel. There, his more sophisticated colleagues introduce him to bouts of social drinking and sex with prostitutes. Enjoying his new lifestyle, Clyde becomes infatuated with manipulative Hortense Briggs,...

Theodore Dreiser heavily invested himself in The Genius, an autobiographical novel first published in 1915. Thoroughly immersed in the turn-of-the-century art scene, The Genius explores the multiple conflicts between art and business, art and marriage, and between traditional and modern views of sexual morality. Despite heavy editing, The Genius was deemed so shocking that its sale was immediately prohibited by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. It was not released until 192...

The Titan is a novel written by Theodore Dreiser in 1914. It is Dreiser's sequel to The Financier.Cowperwood moves to Chicago with his new wife Aileen. He decides to take over the street-railway system.

Quakers de stricte observance, Hannah et Rufus Barnes déménagent dans le New Jersey sans imaginer un seul instant que ce départ sera à l'origine de tant de bouleversements.Leur fils Solon, amoureux fou d'une jeune fille riche, Benecia Wallin, l'épouse malgré leur différence de milieu. Le jeune couple s'installe à Philadelphie où, grâce aux relations de sa belle-famille, il se voit offrir un emploi dans une banque dont les pratiques entrent rapidement en conflit avec son éthique. Il...