Twelve Men

Dreiser, Theodore · 1945

I _Peter_ II _A Doer of the Word_ III _My Brother Paul_ IV _The Country Doctor_ V _Culhane, the Solid Man_ VI _A True Patriarch_ VII _De Maupassant, Jr._ VIII _The Village Feudists_ IX _Vanity, Vanity_ X _The Mighty Rourke_ XI _A Mayor and His People_ XII _W.L.S._ In any group of men I have ever known, speaking from the point of view of character and not that of physical appearance, Peter would stand out as deliciously and irrefutably different. In the great waste of American intellectual dreariness he was an oasis, a veritable spring in the desert. He understood life. He knew men. He was free--spiritually, morally, in a thousand ways, it seemed to me.…

Read free — original

Or read it translated: 日本語 · 中文 · हिन्दी · Español · العربية · Français · বাংলা · Português · Русский · Bahasa Indonesia · اردو · Deutsch · Kiswahili · 한국어

Lindy Books — 63,242 public-domain books that survived, free forever. No ads, no accounts, no tracking. Browse the library