Definition of Dreiser

1. Noun. United States novelist (1871-1945).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Dreiser

Drambuie
Drangiana
Draper's law
Draskhanakert
Drava
Drave
Dravidian
Dravidian language
Dravidians
Dravidic
Drayton
Dreaming
Dreamtime
Drechslera
Dred Scott
Dreiser (current term)
Dreissena polymorpha
Drenthe
Drepanididae
Drepanis
Dresden
Dresdenware
Dresdner
Dresdners
Dressler's syndrome
Dressler's syndromes
Dressler beat
Dreulofoy's lesion
Drew
Dreyer

Literary usage of Dreiser

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Contemporary American Novelists, 1900-1920 by Carl van Doren (1922)
"THEODORE Dreiser Much concerned about wisdom as Theodore Dreiser is, ... Not only has Mr. Dreiser never allowed any one else to make up his mind for him ..."

2. On Contemporary Literature by Stuart Pratt Sherman (1917)
"ni THE BARBARIC NATURALISM OF THEODORE Dreiser THE layman who listens reverently to the reviewers discussing the new novels and to the novelists discussing ..."

3. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1901)
"Dreiser, HW Continued. mind ; The spiritual Ideal In childhood ; An experiment In education ; The expression of the spirit ; An Ideal summer conference ..."

4. The Great Modern American Stories: An Anthology by William Dean Howells, Boni & Liveright (1920)
"... •By THEODORE Dreiser THEY lived together in a part of the country which was not so prosperous as it had once been, about three miles from one of those ..."

5. A Book of Prefaces by Henry Louis Mencken (1917)
"II THEODORE Dreiser OUT of the desert of American ... so populous and yet so dreary, Dreiser stands up — a phenomenon unescapably visible, ..."

6. How to Study "The Best Short Stories": An Analysis of Edward J. O'Brien's by Blanche Colton Williams (1919)
"The beginning of this story lay in a bit about an insane man in Missouri, a story which came to Mr. Dreiser quite ten years before he developed it. ..."

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