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Color of a Great City

Name: Color of a Great City
Author: Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser

Read by Lee Smalley · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Foreword (12:54)
The City of My Dreams (8:09)
The City Awakes (5:59)
The Waterfront (9:49)
The Log of a Harbor Pilot (33:14)
Bums (17:29)
The Michael J. Powers Association (18:30)
The Fire (20:38)
The Car Yard (10:27)
The Flight of Pigeons (5:17)
On Being Poor (9:56)
Six O’clock (7:53)
The Toilers of the Tenements (27:00)
The End of a Vacation (6:02)
The Track Walker (5:45)
The Realization of an Ideal (6:01)
The Pushcart Man (12:35)
A Vanished Seaside Resort (18:03)
The Bread-Line (7:06)
Our Red Slayer (7:50)
Whence the Song (32:54)
Characters (23:48)
The Beauty of Life (5:42)
A Wayplace of the Fallen (20:24)
Hell’s Kitchen (25:34)
A Certain Oil Refinery (13:17)
The Bowery Mission (15:38)
The Wonder of the Water (5:05)
The Man on the Bench (8:23)
The Men in the Dark (10:14)
The Men in the Storm (4:22)
The Men in the Snow (8:41)
The Freshness of the Universe (5:57)
The Cradle of Tears (4:04)
When the Sails Are Furled (29:55)
The Sandwich Man (13:16)
The Love Affairs of Little Italy (15:03)
Christmas in the Tenements (16:00)
The Rivers of the Nameless Dead (6:50)