The creative and spiritual search for an outstanding personality, ups and downs, the test of poverty and wealth, passion for a young girl and fading love for his wife … The hero of the novel «Genius», a talented artist Eugene Whitla, is in many ways akin to its creator, the American writer Theodore Dreiser.
The publication of the novel in 1915 caused an explosion in American literary circles. The New York Society for the Fight Against Vice banned the further distribution of Genius as a «blasphemous and obscene work» and demanded that the book be removed from sale. However, this did not prevent Dreiser’s novel from becoming a world classic and a favorite work of several generations of readers.
Book one. YOUTH
Book two. WRESTLING
Book three. Riot