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The Genius
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An artist’s hunger for beauty and success becomes a restless study of desire.
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The Genius
Theodore Dreiser follows Eugene Witla, a gifted painter and illustrator, through artistic ambition, sensual temptation, marriage, commerce, and spiritual exhaustion. The novel turns the modern artist’s life into a broad naturalist study of appetite, talent, and compromise.
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Original English novel first published in 1915. Theodore Dreiser died in 1945; the edition is public domain under expired U.S. publication copyright and life-plus-70 terms.
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The Genius
Theodore Dreiser
"Eugene Witla, wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour her, and keep her in sickness and in health; and forsaking all others, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live?"
"I will."
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- 01Full text
- 02BOOK I YOUTH
- 03THE "GENIUS"
- 04CHAPTER I
- 05CHAPTER II
- 06CHAPTER III
- 07CHAPTER IV
- 08CHAPTER V
- 09CHAPTER VI
- 10CHAPTER VII
- 11CHAPTER VIII
- 12CHAPTER IX
- 13CHAPTER X
- 14CHAPTER XI
- 15CHAPTER XII
- 16CHAPTER XIII
- 17CHAPTER XIV
- 18CHAPTER XV
- 19CHAPTER XVI
- 20CHAPTER XVII
- 21CHAPTER XVIII
- 22CHAPTER XIX
- 23CHAPTER XX
- 24CHAPTER XXI
- 25CHAPTER XXII
- 26CHAPTER XXIII
- 27CHAPTER XXIV
- 28CHAPTER XXV
- 29CHAPTER XXVI
- 30CHAPTER XXVII
- 31CHAPTER XXVIII
- 32BOOK II
- 33THE STRUGGLE
- 34CHAPTER I
- 35CHAPTER II
- 36CHAPTER III
- 37CHAPTER IV
- 38CHAPTER V
- 39CHAPTER VI
- 40CHAPTER VII
- 41CHAPTER VIII
- 42CHAPTER IX
- 43CHAPTER X
- 44CHAPTER XI
- 45CHAPTER XII
- 46CHAPTER XIII
- 47CHAPTER XIV
- 48CHAPTER XV
- 49CHAPTER XVI
- 50CHAPTER XVII
- 51CHAPTER XVIII
- 52CHAPTER XIX
- 53CHAPTER XX
- 54CHAPTER XXI
- 55CHAPTER XXII
- 56CHAPTER XXIII
- 57CHAPTER XXIV
- 58CHAPTER XXV
- 59CHAPTER XXVI
- 60CHAPTER XXVII
- 61CHAPTER XXVIII
- 62CHAPTER XXIX
- 63CHAPTER XXX
- 64CHAPTER XXXI
- 65CHAPTER XXXII
- 66CHAPTER XXXIII
- 67CHAPTER XXXIV
- 68CHAPTER XXXV
- 69CHAPTER XXXVI
- 70CHAPTER XXXVII
- 71CHAPTER XXXVIII
- 72CHAPTER XXXIX
- 73CHAPTER XL
- 74CHAPTER XLI
- 75CHAPTER XLII
- 76CHAPTER XLIII
- 77CHAPTER XLIV
- 78BOOK III
- 79THE REVOLT
- 80CHAPTER I
- 81CHAPTER II
- 82CHAPTER III
- 83CHAPTER IV
- 84CHAPTER V
- 85CHAPTER VI
- 86CHAPTER VII
- 87CHAPTER VIII
- 88CHAPTER IX
- 89CHAPTER X
- 90CHAPTER XI
- 91CHAPTER XII
- 92CHAPTER XIII
- 93CHAPTER XIV
- 94CHAPTER XV
- 95CHAPTER XVI
- 96CHAPTER XVII
- 97CHAPTER XVIII
- 98CHAPTER XIX
- 99CHAPTER XX
- 100CHAPTER XXI
- 101CHAPTER XXII
- 102CHAPTER XXIII
- 103CHAPTER XXIV
- 104CHAPTER XXV
- 105CHAPTER XXVI
- 106CHAPTER XXVII
- 107CHAPTER XXVIII
- 108CHAPTER XXIX
- 109L'ENVOI
- 110THE END
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