# The "Genius" Author: Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 Genre: Banned Books from Anne Haight's list Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31824 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+%22Genius%22+Dreiser&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary This story has its beginnings in the town of Alexandria, Illinois, between 1884 and 1889, at the time when the place had a population of somewhere near ten thousand. There was about it just enough of the air of a city to relieve it of the sense of rural life. It had one street-car line, a theatre,--or rather, an opera house, so-called (why no one might say, for no opera was ever performed there)--two railroads, with their stations, and a business district, composed of four brisk sides to a public square. In the square were the county court-house and four newspapers. These two morning and two evening papers made the population fairly aware of the fact that life was full of issues, local an... ## Chapters - [Chapter 39](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/39/index.md) - [Chapter 99](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/99/index.md) - [Chapter 86](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/86/index.md) - [Chapter 82](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/82/index.md) - [Chapter 94](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/94/index.md) - [Chapter 64](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/64/index.md) - [Chapter 91](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/91/index.md) - [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter 83](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/83/index.md) - [Chapter 84](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/84/index.md) - [Chapter 98](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/98/index.md) - [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/1/index.md) - [Chapter 81](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/81/index.md) - [Chapter 50](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/50/index.md) - [Chapter 85](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/85/index.md) - [Chapter 66](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/66/index.md) - [Chapter 54](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/54/index.md) - [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter 73](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/73/index.md) - [Chapter 96](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/96/index.md) - [Chapter 43](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/43/index.md) - [Chapter 100](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/100/index.md) - [Chapter 67](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/67/index.md) - [Chapter 47](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/47/index.md) - [Chapter 80](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/80/index.md) - [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/25/index.md) - [Chapter 60](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/60/index.md) - [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/26/index.md) - [Chapter 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/30/index.md) - [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/17/index.md) - [Chapter 71](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/71/index.md) - [Chapter 46](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/46/index.md) - [Chapter 56](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/56/index.md) - [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/18/index.md) - [Chapter 70](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/70/index.md) - [Chapter 78](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/78/index.md) - [Chapter 93](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/93/index.md) - [Chapter 48](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/48/index.md) - [Chapter 76](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/76/index.md) - [Chapter 65](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/65/index.md) - [Chapter 74](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/74/index.md) - [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/20/index.md) - [Chapter 36](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/36/index.md) - [Chapter 53](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/53/index.md) - [Chapter 52](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/52/index.md) - [Chapter 87](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/87/index.md) - [Chapter 57](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/57/index.md) - [Chapter 33](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/33/index.md) - [Chapter 51](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/51/index.md) - [Chapter 97](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/97/index.md) - [Chapter 58](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/58/index.md) - [Chapter 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/31/index.md) - [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter 77](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/77/index.md) - [Chapter 79](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/79/index.md) - [Chapter 42](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/42/index.md) - [Chapter 89](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/89/index.md) - [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/28/index.md) - [Chapter 90](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/90/index.md) - [Chapter 62](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/62/index.md) - [Chapter 68](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/68/index.md) - [Chapter 95](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/95/index.md) - [Chapter 49](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/49/index.md) - [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/11/index.md) - [Chapter 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/29/index.md) - [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/21/index.md) - [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/9/index.md) - [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/13/index.md) - [Chapter 61](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/61/index.md) - [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/27/index.md) - [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/23/index.md) - [Chapter 55](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/55/index.md) - [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/24/index.md) - [Chapter 75](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/75/index.md) - [Chapter 45](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/45/index.md) - [Chapter 38](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/38/index.md) - [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/16/index.md) - [Chapter 59](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/59/index.md) - [Chapter 63](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/63/index.md) - [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/12/index.md) - [Chapter 35](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/35/index.md) - [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/19/index.md) - [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/14/index.md) - [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/15/index.md) - [Chapter 72](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/72/index.md) - [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/22/index.md) - [Chapter 34](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/34/index.md) - [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter 40](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/40/index.md) - [Chapter 101](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/101/index.md) - [Chapter 32](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/32/index.md) - [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/10/index.md) - [Chapter 37](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/37/index.md) - [Chapter 92](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/92/index.md) - [Chapter 41](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/41/index.md) - [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/5/index.md) - [Chapter 44](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/44/index.md) - [Chapter 88](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/88/index.md) - [Chapter 69](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-genius-31824/chapters/69/index.md)