In the 1910s, in early middle age, Theodore Dreiser, already America's great gritty realist, began to take stock of his crowded, complicated life and of the persons and forces that had shaped it. He embarked upon a multi-volume work he planned to call "A History of Myself," a brutally honest untangling of "the net of flesh and emotion and human relationship into which I was born and which conditioned my early efforts at living." By 1916 he had completed the first volume, Dawn, a chronicle of his poor Midwestern boyhood and a book so candid and sexually explicit that, out of respect for his family's feelings, he delayed its publication for fifteen years. In 1922, he finished the second, Newspaper Days, the story of his literary apprenticeship in the roughneck world of big-city dailies. Together they constitute one of the great American autobiographies, less known perhaps than those of Henry Adams and Ulysses S. Grant but in every way worthy of the same short shelf.
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Hardback Editions
November 1998 : Hardback
| Title: Dawn: An Autobiography of Early Youth Author(s): Theodore Dreiser; T. D. Nostwich ISBN: 1-57423-074-3 / 9781574230741 (USA edition) Publisher: Black Sparrow Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
November 1998 : Hardback
| Title: Dawn Author(s): Theodore Dreiser ISBN: 1-57423-075-1 / 9781574230758 (USA edition) Publisher: Black Sparrow Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
July 1974 : Hardback
| Title: Dawn (New Portway Reprints) Author(s): Theodore Dreiser ISBN: 0-85997-025-6 / 978-0-85997-025-9 (UK edition) Publisher: C Chivers Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
1965 : Hardback
| Title: Dawn Author(s): Theodore Dreiser Publisher: HORACE LIVERIGHT INC Availability: Amazon More details... |
1951 : Hardback
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January 1931 : Hardback
| Title: Dawn: A History Of Myself Author(s): Theodore Dreiser Publisher: Constable Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Paperback Editions
October 1998 : Paperback
| Title: Dawn: An Autobiography of Early Youth Author(s): Theodore Dreiser ISBN: 1-57423-073-5 / 9781574230734 (USA edition) Publisher: Black Sparrow Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1965 : Mass Market Paperback
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January 1931 : Paperback
| Title: Dawn. Author(s): Theodore. Dreiser Publisher: Constable Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
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