Color of a Great City

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jun 1, 2023

In Category - Essays & Short Works, Art, Design & Architecture

Authors: Theodore Dreiser In Year : 1923

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Color of a Great City

Foreword
The City of My Dreams
The City Awakes
The Waterfront
The Log of a Harbor Pilot
Bums
The Michael J. Powers Association
The Fire
The Car Yard
The Flight of Pigeons
On Being Poor
Six O’clock
The Toilers of the Tenements
The End of a Vacation
The Track Walker
The Realization of an Ideal
The Pushcart Man
A Vanished Seaside Resort
The Bread-Line
Our Red Slayer
Whence the Song
Characters
The Beauty of Life
A Wayplace of the Fallen
Hell’s Kitchen
A Certain Oil Refinery
The Bowery Mission
The Wonder of the Water
The Man on the Bench
The Men in the Dark
The Men in the Storm
The Men in the Snow
The Freshness of the Universe
The Cradle of Tears
When the Sails Are Furled
The Sandwich Man
The Love Affairs of Little Italy
Christmas in the Tenements
The Rivers of the Nameless Dead

Theodore Dreiser was highly acclaimed for his novels and other writing. This non-fiction work takes place in many areas of New York City in the early 20th Century. Dreiser writes of lives packed into cramped tenements, of the likely end, but perhaps not, of an affair, of those who guided ships through turbulent waters, and of life in a home for retired seamen. We're taken to the new subways where track workers risked deadly accidents as they struggled to earn a living. Animal slaughter, the glory and heartbreak of song-writing, the shabby "sandwich man", deadly jealousy in Little Italy, and much more is vividly brought to life by this brilliant author. (Summary by Lee Smalley)