Genius

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - General Fiction, Romance

Authors: Theodore Dreiser In Year : 1915

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Genius

Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 1
Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 2
Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 3
Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 4
Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 5
Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 6
Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 7
Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 8
Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 9
Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 10
Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 11
Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 12
Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 13
Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 14
Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 15
Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 16
Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 17
Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 18
Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 19
Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 20
Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 21
Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 22
Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 23
Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 24
Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 25
Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 26
Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 27
Book 1 - Youth - Chapter 28
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 1
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 2
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 3
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 4
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 5
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 6
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 7
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 8
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 9
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 10
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 11 Part 1
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 11 Part 2
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 12
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 13
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 14
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 15
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 16
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 17
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 18
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 19
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 20
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 21
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 22
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 23
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 24
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 25
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 26
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 27
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 28
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 29
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 30
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 31
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 32
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 33
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 34
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 35
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 36
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 37
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 38
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 39
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 40
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 41
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 42
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 43
Book 2 - Struggle - Chapter 44
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 1
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 2
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 3
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 4
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 5
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 6
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 7
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 8
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 9
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 10
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 11
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 12
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 13
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 14
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 15
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 16
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 17
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 18
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 19
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 20
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 21
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 22
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 23
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 24
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 25
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 26
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 27
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 28
Book 3 - Revolt - Chapter 29
L'ENVOI

"The only figure of literary repute who ever rated The "Genius" as first among the novels of Theodore Dreiser was Theodore Dreiser," literary historian Larzer Ziff observed. His fifth published novel, The "Genius" was actually the third novel Dreiser began work on and, as his most autobiographical work, remained the novel closest to his heart. He worked on it in stages over a four-year period. The credit he felt he deserved (and did not receive) for his honesty about sexual urges and damaged relationships and his original publisher's decision not to stand by the novel in the face of criticism contributed to his lifelong feeling that the book had never been given its due. After An American Tragedy, it is his longest book; the final draft ran to over 700 pages in a close-set type. While the protagonist of the book is in many ways a portrait of its author, Dreiser also loosely based Eugene Witla on some of the painters, artists working in an Ashcan realist style, whom he knew in New York at the time and whose studios he visited. The most likely candidate for a model is Everett Shinn, who painted urban scenes of the kind attributed to Witla and who was known as a promiscuous man.

The novel is divided intro three sections: "Youth," "Struggle," and "Revolt." In Book I, Eugene Witla (like Sister Carrie, in Dreiser's earlier novel) escapes the confines of the small town in Illinois where he has been raised to make his way in Chicago. There he studies painting at the Chicago Art Institute and enjoys the excitement of the city and his first sexual experiences. He becomes engaged to a young woman, Angela Blue, with whom he is intimate before their marriage but, at all times, he finds it difficult to remain faithful. A life based on monogamy seems beyond him. In Book II, Eugene and Angela move to New York City, where he makes a name for himself in the art world as an urban realist but finds his marriage with the increasingly conventional Angela painfully limiting. They travel to Europe, he suffers a breakdown, and they return to New York where Eugene attempts to make a better living in the advertising world. Book III chronicles the deterioration of Eugene and Angela's marriage as he begins an affair with Suzanne Dale. (Wikipedia)