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American fiction (fictional works by one author), Chicago (ill.), fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, action & adventure, Young women, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Dreiser, theodore, 1871-1945, Mistresses, Young women, Fiction, Actresses, Young women in literature, Large type books, Runaway teenagers, English fiction, Translations into Chinese, Chang pian xiao shuo, New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction, Didactic fiction, Young women -- Fiction, Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction, Mistresses -- Fiction, Man-woman relationships, City and town life, Sister Carrie (Dreiser, Theodore)Places
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Jan 01, 2000, Shanghai Translation Publishing House
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7532709345 9787532709342
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Young Caroline Meeber leaves home for the first time and experiences work, love, and the pleasures and responsibilities of independence in late-nineteenth-century Chicago and New York.
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April 20, 2020 | Edited by lisaBot | moving edition(s) to primary work |
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