Theodore Dreiser
22) El Estoico
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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,...
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Library of America volume 36
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Distributed by Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1987
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Includes "My brother Paul."
This volume contains three novels by the renowned master of naturalism, including "Sister Carrie," the story of a young women's rise in the world as her lover sinks into poverty and suicide.
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Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
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Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A PLACE IN THE SUN. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a factory run by a distant, wealthy relative. Feeling lonely one evening, he has a brief rendezvous with assembly-line worker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters),...
30) Carrie
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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...
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Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A Place in the Sun. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a factory run by a distant, wealthy relative. Feeling lonely one evening, he has a brief rendezvous with assembly-line worker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters),...