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The ‘Genius’ 

novel by Dreiser

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  • Theodore Dreiser
    In Theodore Dreiser: Life

    In his next major novel, The ‘Genius’ (1915), he transformed his own life and numerous love affairs into a sprawling semiautobiographical chronicle that was censured by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. There ensued 10 years of sustained literary activity during which Dreiser produced a short-story collection,…

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