Small Collection of Works

Sister Kerry "is a wonderful first Roman of the Driver, who ... burst into the stale atmosphere of Meshchana America as a liberty western wind and for the first time since the time of Mark Twain and Whitman made a stream of fresh air into our suffocating homemade world. So in 1930, in his Nobel Speech, the American writer Sinclair Lewis was responded in his Nobel, stressing that the prize was to go to the theodor to the driver, because it was he who released American literature from Victorian timidity and sent it on the way of a bold, honest and passionate image of life ". The debut romance of the driver published in 1900 caused a grand scandal - he was called immoral, godless, cynical and dislike the American dream. The famous critic wrote that "praise this novel is almost as dangerous as shooting president. The next novel - "Jenny Gerhardt" - the driver began writing immediately after the first, but it passed ten years before the book was published. In the work of the Great American Realist and the Cognot of Human Nature, these two novels are allocated as the most emotional and poetic. Complete this selected writings several stories published in 1918-1919. They will allow to fully evaluate the scale talent of the writer, about which the critic who already mentioned said: "American literature before and after the driver is distinguished almost as biology before and after Darwin"