Jennie Gerhardt

Theodore Dreiser

⏱ 7 minAmerican classic

The gentle, selfless daughter of poor immigrants gives herself out of love first to a kindly senator, then to a wealthy heir who truly loves her but cannot defy his world by marrying beneath him, and is crushed by class and respectability. Dreiser's tender, tragic novel of a good woman.

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