TWELVE MEN
BY
Theodore Dreiser
1919
Contents
[Peter]
[A Doer of the Word]
[My Brother Paul]
[The County Doctor]
[Culhane, the Solid Man]
[A True Patriarch]
[De Maupassant, Junior]
[The Village Feudists]
["Vanity, Vanity," Saith the Preacher]
[The Mighty Rourke]
[A Mayor and His People]
[W.L.S.]
Peter
In any group of men I have ever known, speaking from the point of view of character and not that of physical appearance, Peter would stand out as deliciously and irrefutably different. In the great waste of American intellectual dreariness he was an oasis, a veritable spring in the desert. He understood life. He knew men. He was free—spiritually, morally, in a thousand ways, it seemed to me.