Theodore Dreiser 
The Color of a Great City 
(Illustrated Edition)

In stories such as Six O'Clock, The City Awakes and The Waterfront, the author returns the reader to turn-of-the-century New York with his early memories of the city.

Contents
Foreword — The city of my dreams — The city awakes — The waterfront — The log of a harbor pilot — Bums — The Michael J. Powers Association — The fire — The car yard — The flight of pigeons — On being poor — Six o'clock — The toilers of the tenements — The end of a vacation — The track walker — The realization of an ideal — The pushcart man — A vanished seaside resort — The bread-line — Our red slayer — Whence the song — Characters — The beauty of life — A wayplace of the fallen — Hell's Kitchen — A certain oil refinery — The Bowery Mission — The wonder of the water — The man on the bench — The men in the dark — The men in the storm — The men in the snow — The freshness of the universe — The cradle of tears — When the sails are furled — The sandwich man — The love affairs of Little Italy — Christmas in the tenements — The rivers of the nameless dead.