The Rise of David Levinsky; A Novel

By Cahan, Abraham

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Title:	The Rise of David Levinsky; A Novel
Author:	Cahan, Abraham
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Excerpt: Chapter One. SOMETIMES, when I think of my past in a superficial, casual way, the metamorphosis I have gone through strikes me as nothing short of a miracle. I was born and reared in the lowest depths of poverty and I arrived in America in 1885 with four cents in my pocket. I am now worth more than two million dollars and recognized as one of the two or three leading men in the cloak?and?suit trade in the United States. And yet when I take a look at my inner identity it impresses me as being precisely the same as it was thirty or forty years ago. My present station, power, the amount of worldly happiness at my command, and the rest of it, seem to be devoid of significance When I was young I used to think that middle?aged people recalled their youth as something seen through a haze. I know better now. Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be. The last years that I spent in my native land and my first years in America come back to me with the distinctness of yesterday. Indeed, I have a better recollection of many a trifle of my childhood days than I have of some important things that occurred to me recently. I have a good memory for faces, but I am apt to recognize people I have not seen for a quarter of a century more readily than I do some I used to know only a few years ago.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Rise of David Levinsky, 1 -- Abraham Cahan, 1 -- BOOK I. HOME AND SCHOOL, 3 -- Chapter I, 3 -- Chapter II, 5 -- Chapter III, 11 -- Chapter IV, 14 -- BOOK II. ENTER SATAN, 16 -- Chapter I, 16 -- Chapter II, 21 -- Chapter III, 26 -- BOOK III. I LOSE MY MOTHER, 28 -- Chapter I, 28 -- Chapter II, 32 -- BOOK IV. MATILDA, 35 -- Chapter I I, 35 -- Chapter II, 37 -- Chapter III, 40 -- Chapter IV, 42 -- Chapter V, 45 -- BOOK V. I DISCOVER AMERICA, 45 -- Chapter I, 45 -- Chapter II, 50 -- Chapter III, 56 -- Chapter IV, 59 -- BOOK VI. A GREENHORN NO LONGER, 61 -- Chapter I, 61 -- Chapter II, 64 -- Chapter III, 66 -- Chapter IV, 69 -- Chapter V, 74 -- BOOK VII. MY TEMPLE, 78 -- Chapter I, 78 -- Chapter II, 80 -- Chapter III, 83 -- Chapter IV, 85 -- Chapter V, 88 -- Chapter VI, 91 -- Chapter VII, 94 -- Chapter VIII, 96 -- BOOK VIII. THE DESTRUCTION OF MY TEMPLE, 100 -- Chapter I, 100 -- Chapter II, 103 -- Chapter III, 105 -- Chapter IV, 109 -- Chapter V, 112 -- Chapter VI, 115 -- BOOK IX. DORA, 118 -- The Rise of David Levinsky -- i