The Color of a Great City


Leído por Lee Smalley

(3 stars; 4 reviews)

Theodore Dreiser was highly acclaimed for his novels and other writing. This non-fiction work takes place in many areas of New York City in the early 20th Century. Dreiser writes of lives packed into cramped tenements, of the likely end, but perhaps not, of an affair, of those who guided ships through turbulent waters, and of life in a home for retired seamen. We're taken to the new subways where track workers risked deadly accidents as they struggled to earn a living. Animal slaughter, the glory and heartbreak of song-writing, the shabby "sandwich man", deadly jealousy in Little Italy, and much more is vividly brought to life by this brilliant author. (Summary by Lee Smalley) (8 hr 35 min)

Capítulos

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

Reseñas

Excellent Narration


(3.5 stars)

Thank you Lee Smalley for a fitting reading. I often forgot he was the reader and not the character. Intuitive descriptions and stories of the long ago endless poorer class of city wonderers or residents. I really enjoyed the long listen. Life seemed hella tough back then.

Vignettes of NYC in Former Days


(4 stars)