This Is A New Release Of The Original 1913 Edition.

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1913. American author, outstanding representative of naturalism, whose novels depict real-life subjects in a harsh light. Dreiser's novels were held to be amoral, and he battled throughout his career against censorship and popular taste. A Traveler at Forty is the first of several of Dreiser's autobiographical travel accounts. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

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In Our Town - Contents - PAGE I. SCRIBES A ND PHARISEES . - 7 4.. .. - 3 11. THE Y OUNGP RINCE . . . . . 20 111. THE SOCIETY EDITOR . . ., 28 IV. AS A BREATH I NTO THE WIND . 40 V. THE C OMING OF THE LEISUR C E L ASS-72 VI. THE BOLTON GIRLS - rOSITION . 82. VII. BY THE ROD OF HIS WRATH . 92 VIII. A BUNDLE O F MYRRH t 120 IX. OUR L OATHE B D U T ESTEEMEDC ON- TEMPORARY . . . . . . .,135 X. A QUESTION OF CLIMATE . . . 148 XI. THE C ASTING OU T OF JIMMY MYERS 160 XII. A BABBLED OF GREENF IELD S . I 74 XIII. A PILGRIM IN THE WILDERNES . S 195 XIV. THE PASSING OF PRISCILLWA IN THROP . . . . . . . . 217 XV. ANDY ET A FOO L . -. . . 241 XVI. A KANSAS CHILDE R OLAND . . 255 XVII. THET REMO S L TO O P . . . . 297 XVIII. SOWN IN OUR WEAKNEQ . . 339 XIX. THIRT Y . . . . 3 6 2 IN OUR TOWN Scribes and Pharisees W 0 URS is a little town in that part of the country called the West by those who live east of the Alleghanies, and referred to lovingly as back East by those who dwell west of the Rockies. It is a country town where, as the song goes, you know everybody and they all know you, and the country newspaper office is the social clearing-house. When a man has published a paper in a country community f6r many years, he knows his town and its people, their strength and their weakness, their joys and their sorrows, their failings and their prosperity--or if he does not know these things, he is on the road to failure, for this knowledge must be the spirit of his paper. The country editor and his reporters sooner or later pass upon everything that interests their town. In our little newspaper office we are all re porters, and we know many intimate things 4 In Our Town about our people that we do notprint. We know, for instance, which wives will not let their husbands endorse other mens notes at the banks. We know about the row the Baptists are having to get rid of the bass singer in their choir, who has sung at funerals for thirty years, until it has reached a point where all gqod Baptists dread death on account of his lugubrious profundo. Perhaps we should take this tragedy to heart, but we know that the Methodists are having the same trouble with their soprano, who flats -and has flatted for ten years, and is too proud to quit the choir under fire as she calls it and we remember what a time the Congregationalists had getting rid of their tenor. So that choir troubles are to us only a part of the grist that keeps the mill going. As the merest incident of the daily grind, it came to the office that the bank cashier, whose retirement we announced with half a column of regret, was caught 3 500 short, after twenty years of faithful service, and that his wife sold the homestead to make his shortage good. We know the week that the widower sets out, and we hear with remarkable accuracy just when he In Our Town has been refused by this particular widow or that, and, when he begins on a school-teacher, the whole office has candy and cigar and mince pie bets on the result, with the odds on the widower five to one. We know the woman who is always sent for when a baby comes to town, and who has laid more good people of the community in their shrouds than all the undertakers. We know the politician who gets five dollars a day for his 6 6 services at the polls, the man who takes three dollars and the man who will work for the good of the cause in the precious hope of a blessed reward at somefuture counv convention. To know these things is, not a matter of pride it is not a source of annoyance or shame it is part of the business...

A Traveler at Forty ."rises completely out of the commonplace, and becomes something new, illuminating and heretical. It differs enormously from the customary travel books: it is not a mere description of places and people, but a revelation of their impingement upon an exceptional and almost eccentric personality." - H. L. Mencken "For everywhere Dreiser] goes he watches people with a terrible curiosity about them that never rests until he has their secrets." - Sinclair Lewis The most productive period of Theodore Dreiser writing life began with the five months he spent in Europe between 1911 and 1912. A Traveler at Forty is the detailed account of his travels during that time, including the exploration of his ancestral roots in Germany. This is the text of the popular original edition as it was published in 1913. THEODORE DREISER (1871-1945) was a pre-eminent American novelist of the first half of the twentieth century. He believed that the experiences of working-class people striving for economic, emotional, and spiritual fulfillment were viable subjects for serious fiction, and for this reason he is regarded as an anatomist of the "American Dream."

1913. American author, outstanding representative of naturalism, whose novels depict real-life subjects in a harsh light. Dreiser's novels were held to be amoral, and he battled throughout his career against censorship and popular taste. A Traveler at Forty is the first of several of Dreiser's autobiographical travel accounts. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.