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Twelve men. [12 tales.]

Best remembered for being one of the leading figures in the school of fiction writing known as naturalism, American author Theodore Dreiser got his professional start as a journalist, and he brings his love of research and detail to this collection of biographical essays celebrating the lives and contributions of 12 people who influenced him.

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  • "Best remembered for being one of the leading figures in the school of fiction writing known as naturalism, American author Theodore Dreiser got his professional start as a journalist, and he brings his love of research and detail to this collection of biographical essays celebrating the lives and contributions of 12 people who influenced him."@en
  • "This collection of twelve narratives was published in 1919, though seven had seen magazine publication previously. They are portraits of people Dreiser came across in his life who influenced him, ranging from his brother Paul, a noted songwriter, to a tough-as-nails railroad foreman on whose crew a youthful Dreiser had labored."
  • "Although world-famous for his novels Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt, Theodore Dreiser was also highly accomplished in journalism, autobiography, and travel writing. In 1919, having recently accepted the publishing contract of a new publisher, Dreiser proposed to publish a "book of characters" that would collect twelve biographical sketches of individuals who were major influences on Dreiser, both as a man and as a writer. The resulting narratives combine the best attributes of the character sketch, the autobiography, and the short story into miniature masterpieces of prose. The men profiled in Twelve Men are a diverse and colorful group: from Dreiser's equally famous brother, the song-writer Paul Dreiser's ("My Brother Paul"), to the entirely obscure railroad foreman Michael Burke ("The Mighty Rourke"), on whose work crew Dreiser had labored in 1903. The twelve narratives are compelling portraits of the men portrayed, but they also reveal many insights into Dreiser's own life and work."

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  • "Biography"
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Essays"
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  • "Biography & Autobiography, Essays, Nonfiction"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Translations"
  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Twelve men. [12 tales.]"@en
  • "Dvenadcat' amerikancev"
  • "Twelve Men. [Biographical sketches.]"
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  • "Doce hombres"@es
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  • "Twelve Men"@en
  • "Twelve Men"
  • "Douze hommes"

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