Dreiser, Theodore
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...held humanity as the victim of such ungovernable forces as economics, biology, society, and even chance. In his works, conventional...virtuous behavior having little to do with material success and happiness. While his style and language tended to be clumsy and plodding...