The “Genius”
By Theodore Dreiser
Author of “Sister Carrie,” “The Titan,” etc.
Cloth, $1.50 Net
¶ Eugene Witla is one of those strange personalities which occasionally spring up among the humdrum types of common life, an exotic flower in a vegetable garden. Brilliant, irregular, unstable, he attracts and repels in the book as in life. The story deals with his rise as an artist, and later as a business man.
¶ He is one of those powerful and yet fragile personalities to whom great success and great disaster almost inevitably come. His weakness lies in the insatiable hunger of his mind and body for the charm of feminine youth and beauty. His conquests form a series of fascinating episodes, gay with all the colors of love and art.
¶ Eugene is in search of the “Impossible She.” When he is at the height of his success, he finds her. He reaches out his arms to grasp her, and at that moment the whole structure of his life crumbles beneath him. Abysses open, at the bottom of which lie all but insanity. He struggles to save himself. At the end of the book—but read it.
A STORY OF GENIUS, RESTLESS POWER
AND CREATIVE ENERGY SEARCHING
FOR LIFE’S SOLUTION