# Chains

Author: Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72326

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Chains+Dreiser&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Primarily, there were the conditions under which she was brought to fifteen years of age: the crowded, scummy tenements; the narrow green-painted halls with their dim gas-jets, making the entrance look more like that of a morgue than a dwelling-place; the dirty halls and rooms with their green or blue or brown walls painted to save the cost of paper; the bare wooden floors, long since saturated with every type of grease and filth from oleomargarine and suet leaked from cheap fats or meats, to beer and whiskey and tobacco-juice. A little occasional scrubbing by some would-be hygienic tenant was presumed to keep or make clean some of the chambers and halls.

## Chapters

- [Part 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/29/index.md)
- [Part 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 33](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/33/index.md)
- [Part 34](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/34/index.md)
- [Part 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/30/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Part 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 32](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/32/index.md)
- [Part 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/28/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/27/index.md)
- [Part 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/31/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 35](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chains-72326/chapters/35/index.md)