Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
“Life Itself” The Editor The Zeppelins Over London Richard Aldington Portrait of Theodore Dreiser Arthur Davison Ficke Theodore Dreiser John Cowper Powys “So We Grew Together” Edgar Lee Masters Choleric Comments Alexander S. Kaun The Scavenger’s Swan Song Dregs: Ben Hecht Life...
“Life Itself” The Editor The Zeppelins Over London Richard Aldington Portrait of Theodore Dreiser Arthur Davison Ficke Theodore Dreiser John Cowper Powys “So We Grew Together” E...
2. Part 2But one knows very well he is right. People don’t in ordinary life—certainly not in ordinary democratic life—talk like Oscar Wilde, or utter deep ironic sayings in the style of...
3. Part 3The first edition of the book was issued about twenty years ago, yet one reads it now with keen joy. With the exception of the essay on Nietzsche, which is somewhat obsolete, th...
4. Part 4His lips moved in a nervous delight but he uttered no sound. With the fingers of his right hand he picked at the blackened and roughly-bitten nails of his other. He cleared his...
5. Part 5They burned him at the stake, bound to a great tree in iron chains. The flames lapped at his feet, glowing into his old face that was scarred and leathered with battle, brighten...
6. Part 6THE DAWN (Les Aubes). A symbolic war play, by Emile Verhaeren, the poet of the Belgians. “The author approaches life through the feelings and passions. His dramas express the vi...
7. Part 7_“Mr. Dreiser proves himself once more a master realist ... he is a great, a very great artist. In a season remarkable for its excellent fiction this new book of his immediately...