Jennie Gerhardt

A poor girl becomes the mistress of two men in succession because her family needs the money, and loses the first to a sudden death and the second to his family's demand for respectability. Dreiser's publisher cut and softened it heavily; even so the reviewers called it sordid. This edition binds 58 plates of painting with the text, among them works by Edvard Munch, Robert Henri and John Frederick...