Eleven stories from the author of Sister Carrie. In the title piece an ageing New York architect sits by his dying wife and counts the life their marriage cost him. Others follow a young reporter who witnesses a lynching, an old farmer searching the roads for his dead wife in The Lost Phœbe, a German baker and his runaway daughter, and the gaudy world of the 1890s.
Dreiser’s plain, unflinching realism in short form; one story’s title uses the racial slur of its day, and its subject is the horror of mob murder. Download the free EPUB.