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테오도르 드라이저(Theodore Dreiser)의 단편 소설 모음집으로 1920년에 출간 되었다.
테오도르 허먼 앨버트 드레이저는 미국의 소설가이자 자연주의 학파의 저널리스트였다. 그의 소설에는 확고한 도덕률이 없음에도 불구하고 자신의 목표를 달성한 주인공이 등장하는 경우가 많았고, 선택과 선택의 이야기보다는 자연에 대한 연구에 더 가까운 문학적 상황이 등장 했다. Dreiser의 가장 잘 알려진 소설로는 Sister Carrie (1900)와 An American Tragedy (1925)가 있다.


A collection of short stories by Theodore Dreiser, published in 1920.
Theodor Herman Albert Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalistic school. His novels often featured protagonists who achieved their goals despite lacking a firm moral code, and literary situations appeared that were closer to the study of nature than to stories of choice and choice. Dreiser's best-known novels include Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925).

Summary
I HAVE lived now to my fortieth year, and have seen a good deal of life. Just now, because of a stretch of poverty, I am living across the river from New York, in New Jersey, in sight of a splendid tower, the Woolworth Building on the lower end of Manhattan, which lifts its defiant spear of clay into the very maw of heaven. And although I am by no means as far from it as is Fifth Avenue, still I am a dweller in one of the shabbiest, most forlorn neighborhoods which the great metropolis affords. About me dwell principally Poles and Hungarians, who palaver in a lingo of which I know nothing and who live as I would despise to live, poor as I am. For, after all, in my hall-bedroom, which commands the river over the lumberyard, there is some attempt at intellectual adornment, whereas outside and around me there is little more than dull and to a certain extent aggrieved drudgery.

Contents
I. Hey Rub-A-Dub-Dub
II. Change
III. Some Aspects of Our National Character
IV. The Dream
V. The American Financier
VI. The Toil of the Laborer
VII. Personality
VIII. A Counsel to Perfection
IX. Neurotic America and the Sex Impulse
X. Secrecy?Its Value
XI. Ideals, Morals, and the Daily Newspaper
XII. Equation Inevitable
XIII. Phantasmagoria
XIV. Ashtoreth
XV. The Reformer
XVI. Marriage and Divorce
XVII. More Democracy or Less? An Inquiry
XVIII. The Essential Tragedy of Life
XIX. Life, Art and America
XX. The Court of Progress