Project Gutenberg 2021-12-31 Public domain in the USA. 164 Dreiser, Theodore 1871 1945 20002927 Hey Rub-a-dub-dub: A Book of the Mystery and Wonder and Terror of Life $aUnited States :$bBoni and Liverlight,$c1920. Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Rub-a-Dub-Dub Hey rub-a-dub-dub -- Change -- Some aspects of our national character -- The dream -- The American financier -- The toil of the laborer -- Personality -- A counsel to perfection -- Neurotic America and the sex impulse -- Secrecy: its value -- Ideals, morals, and the daily newspaper -- Equation inevitable -- Phantasmagoria -- Ashtoreth -- The reformer -- Marriage and divorce -- More democracy or less? An inquiry -- The essential tragedy of life -- Life, art and America -- The court of progress. Emmanuel Ackerman, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Hey Rub-a-dub-dub: A Book of the Mystery and Wonder and Terror of Life" by Theodore Dreiser is a collection of reflective essays written in the early 20th century. The book delves into the complexities of human existence, exploring themes of poverty, morality, and societal contradictions as seen through the eyes of a contemplative narrator. The narrative voice grapples with personal inadequacies and observations of those around him, particularly focusing on the dissonance between aspiration and reality in American life. The opening of the book introduces the narrator, who reflects on his life at the age of forty, living in a shabby neighborhood across the river from New York City. He describes his struggles with poverty, his attempts at being a writer, and his natural curiosity about the world, which leads him to question the societal values he observes. As he looks out over the city, he feels a mix of envy and confusion regarding those who thrive materially while he appears stagnant. Through a series of anecdotes about his neighbors and his inner musings, the narrator sets the stage for deeper explorations of life’s moral complexities, social injustices, and the pursuit of meaning in a seemingly indifferent universe. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/heyrubadubdubboo00drei/page/38/mode/2up 20210131071647dreiser 1920 US Reading ease score: 57.8 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en American essays -- 20th century PS Text Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Category: American Literature 676104 2025-06-26T11:19:10.861199 text/html 683578 2022-01-01T06:51:16 text/html 691808 2025-06-26T11:19:19.977191 application/epub+zip 694661 2025-06-26T11:19:12.782242 application/epub+zip 330643 2025-06-26T11:19:11.732232 application/epub+zip 897433 2025-06-26T11:19:25.909203 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 874504 2025-06-26T11:19:18.978149 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 512135 2022-09-30T06:55:12.096884 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 625802 2025-06-26T11:19:10.122242 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 625376 2022-01-01T06:51:16 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 19398 2025-06-26T11:19:26.060194 application/rdf+xml 14878 2025-06-26T11:19:11.873239 image/jpeg 2228 2025-06-26T11:19:11.803221 image/jpeg 238232 2022-01-01T06:51:17 application/octet-stream application/zip 640481 2022-01-01T06:51:17 application/octet-stream application/zip 646768 2025-06-26T11:19:10.919225 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia