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.