#Theodore Dreiser

[cinematic-literature]

Asteroid City (2023) by Wes Anderson

Book title: An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser

#asteroid city #wes anderson #margot robbie #theodore dreiser #an american tragedy #books in movies #american literature

[her-art-and-heart]

“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.”

Theodore Dreiser

#art #soul #quote #theodore dreiser

[oldshowbiz]

Lewd and Obscene

#censorship #theodore dreiser #lillian smith #cranks #america #fire and brimstone

[jaygaeze]

#art #stored #honey #human #soul #theodore dreiser

[pygartheangel]

#an american tragedy #a place in the sun #theodore dreiser #josef von sternberg #sylvia sidney #phillips holmes #frances dee

[minnesbookshelf]

240417 ~ An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser.

Yesterday I finished An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser.

It really is one of the best books I've ever read so far! Especially because it was translated by Nora Gal.

What impressed me? • First of all, its language. It's written perfectly, not difficult to read, yet in a serious manner. Every detail can be easily imagined in your own mind. Thanks to the translators and the editor of the Russian edition. • The way the characters are described is true to life, including, of course, the main one, Clyde Griffits. His path was shown from the very childhood to... well, his last moments. As I was reading the book, my relationship with Clyde changed from time to time. At first, I loved him a lot, then I judged him and was a bit apathetic towards his fate, and, finally, felt terrible pain inside my chest during the last pages, despite my opinion on his deeds.  • Clyde's mother's love also impressed me. She was considered a strange religious fanatic, but I thought about my own mother. She must love me this much, too, despite everything.

What would I call a disadvantage? • The ending may be too religious for some people, but it was a part of Clyde's path.

I enjoyed An American Tragedy a lot and all its 800 pages were worth reading. It definitely can be viewed as #1 to me this year! I wonder if anything can beat that in the future.

#review #bookblr #booklover #books #books and reading #bookworm #reading #an american tragedy #theodore dreiser

[czgif]

Dana Medřická in Trapped (V pasti) 1956, TV, dir. Alfréd Radok IMDB

#Czech #čumblr #Czech cinema #Czech film #Trapped #V pasti #Dana Medřická #Alfréd Radok #Theodore Dreiser #TV film #short film #film noir #drama #Czech TV #black and white #classicfilmedit #film #film edit #actress #central Europe #european cinema #european film #european TV #adaptation #foreign language adaptation #czech pop culture #gif #movie #Czech movie #Czech Republic

[pithia]

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Theodore Dreiser

#quotations #Theodore Dreiser #art #wings #misery #truly a mood

[not-thought-out-musings]

Once the bright days of summer pass by, a city takes on that sombre garb of grey, wrapt in which it goes about its labours during the long winter. Its endless buildings look grey, its sky and its streets assume a sombre hue; the scattered, leafless trees and wind-blown dust and paper but add to the general solemnity of colour. There seems to be something in the chill breezes which scurry through the long, narrow thoroughfares productive of rueful thoughts. Not poets alone, nor artists, nor that superior order of mind which arrogates to itself all refinement, feel this, but dogs and all men. These feel as much as the poet, though they have not the same power of expression. The sparrow upon the wire, the cat in the doorway, the dray horse tugging his weary load, feel the long, keen breaths of winter. It strikes to the heart of all life, animate and inanimate. If it were not for the artificial fires of merriment, the rush of profit-seeking trade, and pleasure-selling amusements; if the various merchants failed to make the customary display within and without their establishments; if our streets were not strung with signs of gorgeous hues and thronged with hurrying purchasers, we would quickly discover how firmly the chill hand of winter lays upon the heart; how dispiriting are the days during which the sun withholds a portion of our allowance of light and warmth. We are more dependent upon these things than is often thought. We are insects produced by heat, and pass without it.

Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie (1900)

This description of winter really struck me when I read it.

#good writing #theodore dreiser #sister carrie #turn of the century #american literature #winter

[thatwritererinoriordan]

John Milton, Theodore Dreiser, and Donna Summer all bump into censors. Meanwhile, on this sad Hamilton day, John Laurens dies fighting for American independence. https://ko-fi.com/post/August-27-Much-to-Do-with-Censorship-B0B8ENQYS

#august 27 #john milton #john laurens #theodore dreiser #donna summer

[veryslowreader]

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

#an american tragedy #theodore dreiser #the prize winner of defiance ohio #julianne moore #ellary porterfield

[swampflix]

Movie of the Month: A Place in the Sun (1951)

Every month one of us makes the rest of the crew watch a movie they’ve never seen before, and we discuss it afterwards. This month Britnee made Boomer and Brandon watch A Place in the Sun (1956). Britnee: Based on Theodore Dreiser’s 1925 novel An American Tragedy, George Stevens’s melodramatic noir masterpiece A Place in the Sun is one of my all-time favorite films. It’s overdramatic, shocking,…

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#a place in the sun #brandon ledet #britnee lombas #elizabeth taylor #George Stevens #Lists & Articles #mark boomer redmond #melodrama #montgomery clift #movie of the month #shelley winters #theodore dreiser

[sky-walkerem]

Perfect juxtaposition of lines.

[transcript: “Theodore Dreiser married Sara Osborne White. In 1898, two years before publishing Sister Carrie he wrote to Sara, “I went to Jackson Park and saw what is left of the dear old World’s Fair where I learned to love you.” He cheated on her repeatedly.]

#the devil in the white city #Theodore Dreiser #Erik Larson #Chicago worlds fair #history #justice for Sara

[glitterpennotes]

art is the stored honey of the human soul.

theodore dreiser

#poetry #art #poem #theodore dreiser #dead poets society

[minnesbookshelf]

finished an american tragedy today... uh oh watch me cry for the rest of the night

#it was a REAL journey #i loved clyde then despised him and then literally burst into tears because of his mother's love #bookblr #booklover #books #books and reading #bookworm #an american tragedy #theodore dreiser

[spryfilm]

Blu-ray review: “Carrie” (1952)

“Carrie” (1952) Drama Running Time: 106 minutes Written by: Theodore Dreiser, Ruth Goetz and Augustus Goetz Directed by: William Wyler Featuring: Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones and Edward Albert Julie Hurstwood: “Will you give her up?” George Hurstwood: “I’m not like you, Julia. I don’t make threats, and I don’t make promises.” Julie Hurstwood: “Well, I make them. And I keep…

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#Augustus Goetz #carrie #carrie 1952 #carrie bluray #carrie bluray review #Edward Albert #Jennifer Jones #Laurence Olivier #Ruth Goetz #Theodore Dreiser #William wyler