Jennie Gerhardt (The World's Classics)
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
Dreiser's second novel and his own personal favorite features an impoverished heroine who, in simply trying to make her way in the world, inadvertently defies a host of social conventions. Following the addition of Sister Carrie to the World's Classics series, Jennie Gerhardt is accompanied
by a full and up-to-date editorial apparatus.
Download Description
The world into which Jennie was thus unduly thrust forth was that in which virtue has always vainly struggled since time immemorial; for virtue is the wishing well and the doing well unto others. Virtue is that quality of generosity which offers itself willingly for another's service, and, being this, it is held by society to be nearly worthless. Sell yourself cheaply and you shall be used lightly and trampled under foot. Hold yourself dearly, however unworthily, and you will be respected. Society in the mass, lacks woefully in the matter of discrimination.
--This text refers to the
Digital
edition.
Jennie Gerhardt (The World's Classics)
Jennie Gerhardt (The World's Classics),Theodore Dreiser,Lee Clark Mitchell,Oxford University Press, USA,019282743X,20th Century American Novel And Short Story,Children's Literature - General,Classics,Literary Criticism,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,Love stories,Fiction / Classics
Books Info:
Recommended Books