Autor: James L. W. West III

This book examines literary authorship in the twentieth century and covers such topics as publishing, book distribution, the trade editor, the literary agent, the magazine market, subsidiary rights, …

Regarded as one of Dreiser’s best novels, Jennie Gerhardt is here recaptured as it was originally written, restoring it to its complete, unexpurgated form. …

In 1992 the University of Pennsylvania Press published a new edition of Theodore Dreiser’s second novel, Jennie Gerhardt. The original published text was altered significantly from the author’s inten …

The Sister Carrie edition that was published in 1900, long regarded as a watershed work in American fiction, was actually a censored misrepresentation of Drieser’s original story. When, 80 years late …

Theodore Dreiser’s Russian Diary is an extended record of the American writer’s travels throughout the Soviet Union in 1927-28. Dreiser was initially invited to Moscow for a week-long observance of t …

‘To write it took three months; to conceive it—three minutes; to collect the data in it—all my life.’ So said F. Scott Fitzgerald regarding This Side of Paradise, the novel he began writing in Novemb …

Dreiser’s careful preservation of his papers bears new fruit with the publication of his personal diaries for the years 1902-26. This volume presents all seven of Dreiser’s hitherto unpublished Ameri …

Hidden under layers of error and corruption, the original version of Sister Carrie has finally emerged. The American classic that has been read in English courses for many decades is not the text as …

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press’s distin …

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second novel, The Beautiful and Damned, has frequently been dismissed as an outlier and curiosity in his oeuvre, a transitional work from the coming-of-age plot of This Side of …