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"American writing, before and after Dreiser's time, differed almost as much as biology before and after Darwin," said H. L. Mencken. Sister Carrie, Dreiser's great first novel, transformed the conventional "fallen woman" story into a bold and truly innovative piece of fiction when it appeared in 1900. Naive young Caroline Meeber, a small-town girl seduced by the lure of the modern city, becomes the mistress of a traveling salesman and then of a saloon manager, who elopes with her to New York. Both its subject matter and Dreiser's unsparing, nonjudgmental approach made Sister Carrie a controversial book in its time, and the work retains the power to shock readers today. "Sister Carrie came to housebound and airless America like a great free Western wind, and to our stuffy domesticity gave us the first fresh air since Mark Twain and Whitman," noted Sinclair Lewis. "Dreiser enlarged, willy-nilly, by a kind of historical accident if The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with afford-able hardbound editions of impor-tant works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoringas its emblem the running torch-bearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices.From the Hardcover edition.
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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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Aug 11, 2017, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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May 03, 2017, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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May 11, 2017, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Sister Carrie: The Pennsylvania Edition
2015, University of Pennsylvania Press
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May 27, 2014, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Sister Carrie (Enriched Classics)
July 1, 2008, Pocket
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in English
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Sister Carrie
July 30, 2007, The Large Print Book Company
Paperback
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Sister Carrie
January 1, 2007, Digireads.com, Brand: Digireads.com
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in English
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Sister Carrie (Large Print Edition): A Novel
March 8, 2007, BiblioBazaar
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in English
1426468458 9781426468452
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Sister Carrie
July 25, 2007, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Hardcover
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0548028761 9780548028766
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Sister Carrie (Unabridged Classics)
September 1, 2006, Tantor Media
Audio CD
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Sister Carrie: an authoritative text, backgrounds, and sources criticism
2006, W.W. Norton
in English
- 3rd ed.
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September 1, 2006, Tantor Media
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September 1, 2006, Tantor Media
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Sister Carrie: an authoritative text, backgrounds, and sources criticism
2005, W.W. Norton
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Sister Carrie: Library Edition
September 2005, Blackstone Audiobooks
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December 1, 2005, Barnes & Noble Classics
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May 7, 2004, Dover Publications
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January 27, 1999, Oxford University Press, USA
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Sister Carrie
1999, Modern Library
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Sister Carrie (Twelve-Point)
September 1998, North Books
Hardcover
in English
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Sister Carrie (Modern Library)
July 14, 1997, Modern Library
Hardcover
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1997, Doubleday
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Sister Carrie: One of Modern Library's 100 Best Novels
January 1997, University Publishing House, Inc.
Paperback
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Sister Carrie: New York Public Library Collector's Edition (New York Public Library Collector's Editions)
August 18, 1997, Doubleday
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August 1, 1994, Penguin Classics
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August 1, 1994, Penguin Classics
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Sister Carrie: an authoritative text, backgrounds, and sources criticism
1991, Norton
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January 30, 1990, Audio Book Contractors, Inc.
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1990, Norton
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1988, Audiofy/Jimcin
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1981, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Sister Carrie: rev. and updated bibliography
1981, New American Library [u.a.]
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- 19. print.
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1981, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Sister Carrie (Norton Critical Edition)
September 1970, W W Norton & Co Inc (Np)
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Sister Carrie: an authoritative text, backgrounds, and sources criticism.
1970, Norton
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Sister Carrie.
1969, Johnson Reprint Corp.
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January 1, 1962, Signet Classics
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January 31, 1962, New American Library
Mass Market Paperback
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January 1, 1962, Signet Classics
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Sister Carrie (The Collected Works of Theodore Drieser - 30 Volumes)
Publish date unknown, Classic Publishers
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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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