Chains, Lesser Novels And Stories
By Theodore Dreiser
Length15h 23m
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Excerpt: "Primarily, there were the conditions under which she was brought to fifteen years of age: the crowded, scummy tenements; the narrow green-painted halls with their dim gas-jets, making the entrance look more like that of a morgue than a dwelling-place; the dirty halls and rooms with their green or blue or brown walls painted to save the cost of paper; the bare wooden floors, long since saturated with every type of grease and filth from oleomargarine and suet leaked from cheap fats or meats, to beer and whiskey and tobacco-juice. A little occasional scrubbing by some would-be hygienic tenant was presumed to keep or make clean some of the chambers and halls. And then the streets outside—any of the streets by which she had ever been surrounded—block upon block of other red, bare, commonplace tenements crowded to the doors with human life, the space before them sped over by noisy, gassy trucks and vehicles of all kinds. And stifling in summer, dusty and icy in winter; decorated on occasion by stray cats and dogs, pawing in ashcans, watched over by lordly policemen, and always running with people, people, people—who made their living heaven only knows how, existing in such a manner as their surroundings suggested."
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Rating★★★★ 3.9 (12)
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length15 hrs 23 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 3, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1I SANCTUARY
9IX PHANTOM GOLD
2II THE HAND
10X MARRIAGE—FOR ONE
3III CHAINS
11XI FULFILMENT
4IV ST. COLUMBA AND THE RIVER
12XII THE VICTOR
5V CONVENTION
13XIII THE SHADOW
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6VI KHAT
14XIV THE “MERCY” OF GOD
7VII TYPHOON
15XV THE PRINCE WHO WAS A THIEF
8VIII THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD
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