Theodore Dreiser

A Traveler at Forty illustrated Theodore Dreiser - A Traveler at Forty ."rises completely out of the commonplace, and becomes something new, illuminating and heretical. It differs enormously from the customary travel books: it is not a mere description of places and people, but a revelation of their impingement upon an exceptional and almost eccentric personality." - H. L. Mencken "For everywhere [Dreiser] goes he watches people with a terrible curiosity...

El estoico nos trae el desenlace de la historia de Frank Cowperwood, el protagonista de la Trilogía del deseo, inspirada en la vida real del magnate de los negocios estadounidense Charles T. Yerkes. La obra relata los años de senectud de un hombre enérgico, que si bien ha conseguido la riqueza y el control de grandes negocios, llega a su vejez con un logro pendiente: el reconocimiento de su valía por la alta sociedad de su país. Y para colmo,...

Based on the Theodore Dreiser novel that publishers deemed "too immoral," William Wyler's Carrie is a power-house of human passions transformed into soul-withering frailties. As Carrie, the smalltown girl come to Chicago, Jennifer Jones "seems to have stepped out of the pages of the book" (Time). And Laurence Olivier gives one of his finest portrayals as love-doomed Hurstwood. "Olivier has always given credit to Wyler for teaching him how to act in...