Jennie Gerhardt
by Theodore Dreiser
Publisher: Harper & Brothers 1911
ISBN/ASIN: B002MCYL1S
Number of pages: 574
Description:
Novel by Theodore Dreiser, published in 1911. It exemplifies the naturalism of which Dreiser was a proponent, telling the unhappy story of a working-class woman who accepts all the adversity life visits on her and becomes the mistress of two wealthy and powerful men in order to help her impoverished family.
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