Jennie Gerhardt (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781517088453)

One morning, in the fall of 1880, a middle-aged woman, accompanied by a young girl of eighteen, presented herself at the clerk's desk of the principal hotel in Columbus, Ohio, and made inquiry as to whether there was anything about the place that she could do. She was of a helpless, fleshy build, with a frank, open countenance and an innocent, diffident manner. Her eyes were large and patient, and in them dwelt such a shadow of distress as only those who have looked sympathetically into the countenances of the distraught and helpless poor know anything about. Any one could see where the daughter behind her got the timidity and shamefacedness which now caused her to stand back and look indifferently away. She was a product of the fancy, the feeling, the innate affection of the untutored but poetic mind of her mother combined with the gravity and poise which were characteristic of her father. Poverty was driving them. Together they presented so appealing a picture of honest necessity that even the clerk was affected.

Author: Theodore Dreiser
ISBN-10: 1517088453
ISBN-13: 9781517088453
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 08/27/2015
Pages: 124
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.26d