Description:Published shortly after Dreiser’s masterful novel An American Tragedy, this collection of 15 short stories contains two published for the first time, along with the title story “Chains,” a work hailed as “experimental in its form and risqué… Its content challenged the conventional perceptions of love and marriage [and] the story’s form completely defied narrative techniques.” This collection furthered the praise of critics such as John Cowper Powys, who declared Dreiser to be “a greater realist than Zola.” The provocative foreword of Chains summarizes “the dominant theme of the book, namely, that human beings are ‘chained’ by external and internal forces and therefore limited in their ability to effect change and liberate themselves… Published on 30 April 1927 by Boni & Liveright and followed two weeks later by a special signed and numbered edition, Chains was Dreiser’s second short story collection” (Newlin, 55).We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Chains. To get started finding Chains, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Description: Published shortly after Dreiser’s masterful novel An American Tragedy, this collection of 15 short stories contains two published for the first time, along with the title story “Chains,” a work hailed as “experimental in its form and risqué… Its content challenged the conventional perceptions of love and marriage [and] the story’s form completely defied narrative techniques.” This collection furthered the praise of critics such as John Cowper Powys, who declared Dreiser to be “a greater realist than Zola.” The provocative foreword of Chains summarizes “the dominant theme of the book, namely, that human beings are ‘chained’ by external and internal forces and therefore limited in their ability to effect change and liberate themselves… Published on 30 April 1927 by Boni & Liveright and followed two weeks later by a special signed and numbered edition, Chains was Dreiser’s second short story collection” (Newlin, 55).We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Chains. To get started finding Chains, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.