<영어로 읽는 고전 _ 시어도어 드라이저의 자서전>
A Book About Myself는 미국 작가 시어도어 드라이저(Theodore Dreiser)의 자서전이다. 1922년에 처음 출판된 이 책은 인디애나에서의 어린 시절부터 성공적인 소설가로서의 경력까지 드라이저의 삶을 자세히 설명하고 있다. 드라이저는 미국 생활의 가혹한 현실을 묘사한 자연주의 소설로 유명하다. 그의 가장 유명한 작품으로는 캐리 자매(Sister Carrie), 제니 게르하트(Jennie Gerhardt), 미국의 비극(An American Tragedy) 등이 있다.


A Book About Myself is an autobiography of American writer Theodore Dreiser. First published in 1922, it details Dreiser's life from his childhood in Indiana to his career as a successful novelist. Dreiser is known for his naturalist novels, which depict the harsh realities of American life. Some of his most famous works include Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, and An American Tragedy.


Summary
During the year 1890 I had been formulating my first dim notion as to what it was I wanted to do in life. For two years and more I had been reading Eugene Field’s “Sharps and Flats,” a column he wrote daily for the Chicago Daily News, and through this, the various phases of life which he suggested in a humorous though at times romantic way, I was beginning to suspect, vaguely at first, that I wanted to write, possibly something like that. Nothing else that I had so far read?novels, plays, poems, histories?gave me quite the same feeling for constructive thought as did the matter of his daily notes, poems, and aphorisms, which were of Chicago principally, whereas nearly all others dealt with foreign scenes and people.

Contents
CHAPTER I. During the year 1890
CHAPTER II. On Christmas Eve there came to our home
CHAPTER III. When I asked Alice when I should see her
CHAPTER IV. But if I was wrought up by the varying aspects
CHAPTER V. As spring approached this affair moved on
CHAPTER VI. As April advanced I left the Corbin Company
CHAPTER VII. Picture a dreamy cub of twenty-one
CHAPTER VIII. It made me happy to know that whether
CHAPTER IX. In due course of time
CHAPTER X. I cannot say that I discovered anything
CHAPTER XI. What the senator had told me was true
CHAPTER XII. This change from insecurity to being an accredited
CHAPTER XIII. This world of newspaper men
CHAPTER XIV. Taken up by this man in this way
CHAPTER XV. This sudden decision to terminate my newspaper life
CHAPTER XVI. The time was November, 1892
CHAPTER XVII. This reporters’ room, for all its handsome
CHAPTER XVIII. I found a room the next morning in Pine Street
CHAPTER XIX. No picture of these my opening days
CHAPTER XX. My connection with the Globe-Democrat
CHAPTER XXI. I was walking down the marble hall
CHAPTER XXII. Once the ice was broken in this way intimacy
CHAPTER XXIII. The central character of Hazard’s book was an actress
CHAPTER XXIV. From now on, because of this companionship
CHAPTER XXV. Things relatively interesting, contrasts nearly as sharp
CHAPTER XXVI. My standing as a local newspaper man
CHAPTER XXVII. It was not long before the wreck-train arrived
CHAPTER XXVIII. The fact that I had gained the notice of a man
CHAPTER XXIX. Upon my explaining to Mitchell
CHAPTER XXX. I began to dream more than ever of establishing
CHAPTER XXXI. In spite of this little mishap
CHAPTER XXXII. While I rejoiced in the thought that I might now
CHAPTER XXXIII. Thus it was that I dawdled about the city
CHAPTER XXXIV. The Republic was in a tumbledown old building
CHAPTER XXXV. The LaClede, as I have indicated
CHAPTER XXXVI. For years past during the summer months
CHAPTER XXXVII. As the time drew near, though
CHAPTER XXXVIII. The next morning I was awake early
CHAPTER XXXIX. Possibly it was the brightness and freshness
CHAPTER XL. As I hoped, there were no ill effects from
CHAPTER XLI. Thus these days sped swiftly and ecstatically by
CHAPTER XLII. To return and take up the ordinary routine
CHAPTER XLIII. Two other incidents in connection with my newspaper
CHAPTER XLIV. While I was on the Globe-Democrat there was
CHAPTER XLV. When I was still working for the Globe-Democrat
CHAPTER XLVI. Following Galvin forward through the train
CHAPTER XLVII. Things like these taught me not to depend too
CHAPTER XLVIII. Because Miss W?? lived some distance
CHAPTER XLIX. On the day of her arrival I arrayed myself
CHAPTER L. All love transports contain an element
CHAPTER LI. Concerning these two girls and their odd
CHAPTER LII. As I look back upon my life now
CHAPTER LIII. Well, such was my brother Paul
CHAPTER LIV. My thoughts being now turned, if vaguely
CHAPTER LV. That evening at seven I carried my bags
CHAPTER LVI. Disheartening as this village and country life
CHAPTER LVII. Whether I should go East or West suddenly
CHAPTER LVIII. Finding Cleveland hopeless for me
CHAPTER LIX. I now decided that Pittsburgh would
CHAPTER LX. Barring two or three tall buildings
CHAPTER LXI. I went with him first to Homestead
CHAPTER LXII. In the meantime I was going about my general work
CHAPTER LXIII. It would be unfair to myself not to indicate
CHAPTER LXIV. It was about this time that I began to establish
CHAPTER LXV. As one looks back on youth so much of it
CHAPTER LXVI. And so this romance ended for me
CHAPTER LXVII. My sister’s husband having something to do with
CHAPTER LXVIII. All this while of course there had been
CHAPTER LXIX. The next day I was left to myself
CHAPTER LXX. My departure was accelerated by a conversation
CHAPTER LXXI. But the next day, and the next
CHAPTER LXXII. After I had waited an hour or so
CHAPTER LXXIII. The next morning, coming down at eleven
CHAPTER LXXIV. It is entirely possible that
CHAPTER LXXV. The things which most contributed to my
CHAPTER LXXVI. And then after a little while
CHAPTER LXXVII. Whether due to a naturally weak