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Jennie Gerhardt
English BooksWhale Edition by Theodore Dreiser
A social novel about love, class pressure, family duty, and a woman judged by public convention.
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Jennie Gerhardt
Jennie Gerhardt traces the life of a working-class woman whose tenderness and loyalty collide with class prejudice, reputation, and unequal power. Dreiser’s early novel offers concrete insight into gender, poverty, respectability, and American realist fiction before the First World War.
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- 01Full text
- 02A NOVEL
- 03BY
- 04AUTHOR OF
- 05"SISTER CARRIE"
- 06PUBLISHERS :: :: NEW YORK
- 07JENNIE GERHARDT
- 08CHAPTER I
- 09CHAPTER II
- 10CHAPTER III
- 11Part of her attitude was due to that of her mother, in whose mind
- 12CHAPTER IV
- 13CHAPTER V
- 14CHAPTER VI
- 15CHAPTER VII
- 16CHAPTER VIII
- 17DEATH OF EX-SENATOR BRANDER
- 18CHAPTER IX
- 19CHAPTER X
- 20CHAPTER XI
- 21CHAPTER XII
- 22CHAPTER XIII
- 23CHAPTER XIV
- 24CHAPTER XV
- 25CHAPTER XVI
- 26CHAPTER XVII
- 27CHAPTER XVIII
- 28CHAPTER XIX
- 29CHAPTER XX
- 30"LESTER KANE."
- 31CHAPTER XXI
- 32CHAPTER XXII
- 33CHAPTER XXIII
- 34CHAPTER XXIV
- 35CHAPTER XXV
- 36CHAPTER XXVI
- 37CHAPTER XXVII
- 38CHAPTER XXVIII
- 39CHAPTER XXIX
- 40CHAPTER XXX
- 41CHAPTER XXXI
- 42CHAPTER XXXII
- 43CHAPTER XXXIII
- 44CHAPTER XXXIV
- 45CHAPTER XXXV
- 46CHAPTER XXXVI
- 47"JENNIE.
- 48CHAPTER XXXVII
- 49CHAPTER XXXVIII
- 50CHAPTER XXXIX
- 51CHAPTER XL
- 52CHAPTER XLI
- 53CHAPTER XLII
- 54CHAPTER XLIII
- 55"LESTER."
- 56CHAPTER XLIV
- 57CHAPTER XLV
- 58CHAPTER XLVI
- 59CHAPTER XLVII
- 60CHAPTER XLVIII
- 61CHAPTER XLIX
- 62CHAPTER L
- 63CHAPTER LI
- 64CHAPTER LII
- 65CHAPTER LIII
- 66CHAPTER LIV
- 67CHAPTER LV
- 68CHAPTER LVI
- 69CHAPTER LVII
- 70CHAPTER LVIII
- 71CHAPTER LIX
- 72CHAPTER LX
- 73CHAPTER LXI
- 74CHAPTER LXII
- 75THE END
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