The Color of a Great City

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In the stories in The Color of a Great City, Theodore Dreiser returns the reader to turn-of-the-century New York with his early memories of the city.

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Foreword
The City of My Dreams	p. 1
The City Awakes	p. 5
The Waterfront	p. 9
The Log of a Harbor Pilot	p. 14
Bums	p. 34
The Michael J. Powers Association	p. 44
The Fire	p. 56
The Car Yard	p. 68
The Flight of Pigeons	p. 74
On Being Poor	p. 77
Six O'Clock	p. 81
The Toilers of the Tenements	p. 85
The End of a Vacation	p. 100
The Track Walker	p. 104
The Realization of an Ideal	p. 108
The Pushcart Man	p. 112
A Vanished Seaside Resort	p. 119
The Bread Lane	p. 129
Our Red Slayer	p. 133
When the Sails Are Furled	p. 138
Characters	p. 154
The Beauty of Life	p. 168
A Wayplace of the Fallen	p. 171
Hell's Kitchen	p. 182
A Certain Oil Refinery	p. 198
The Bowery Mission	p. 205
The Wonder of the Water	p. 214
The Man on the Bench	p. 217
The Men in the Dark	p. 222
The Men in the Storm	p. 228
The Men in the Snow	p. 231
The Freshness of the Universe	p. 236
The Cradle of Tears	p. 239
Whence the Song	p. 242
The Sandwich Man	p. 260
The Love Affairs of Little Italy	p. 267
Christmas in the Tenements	p. 275
The Rivers of the Nameless Dead	p. 284
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