The Color of a Great City
by DREISER THEODOREEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-04-01
Publisher(s): Syracuse Univ Pr
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Summary
In the stories in The Color of a Great City, Theodore Dreiser returns the reader to turn-of-the-century New York with his early memories of the city.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | |
| The City of My Dreams | p. 1 |
| The City Awakes | p. 5 |
| The Waterfront | p. 9 |
| The Log of a Harbor Pilot | p. 14 |
| Bums | p. 34 |
| The Michael J. Powers Association | p. 44 |
| The Fire | p. 56 |
| The Car Yard | p. 68 |
| The Flight of Pigeons | p. 74 |
| On Being Poor | p. 77 |
| Six O'Clock | p. 81 |
| The Toilers of the Tenements | p. 85 |
| The End of a Vacation | p. 100 |
| The Track Walker | p. 104 |
| The Realization of an Ideal | p. 108 |
| The Pushcart Man | p. 112 |
| A Vanished Seaside Resort | p. 119 |
| The Bread Lane | p. 129 |
| Our Red Slayer | p. 133 |
| When the Sails Are Furled | p. 138 |
| Characters | p. 154 |
| The Beauty of Life | p. 168 |
| A Wayplace of the Fallen | p. 171 |
| Hell's Kitchen | p. 182 |
| A Certain Oil Refinery | p. 198 |
| The Bowery Mission | p. 205 |
| The Wonder of the Water | p. 214 |
| The Man on the Bench | p. 217 |
| The Men in the Dark | p. 222 |
| The Men in the Storm | p. 228 |
| The Men in the Snow | p. 231 |
| The Freshness of the Universe | p. 236 |
| The Cradle of Tears | p. 239 |
| Whence the Song | p. 242 |
| The Sandwich Man | p. 260 |
| The Love Affairs of Little Italy | p. 267 |
| Christmas in the Tenements | p. 275 |
| The Rivers of the Nameless Dead | p. 284 |
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