Sister Carrie (Modern Library)
by Theodore Dreiser
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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.
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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
Illinois, New York (State), New York (N.Y.), New York, ChicagoShowing 11 featured editions. View all 173 editions?
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Sister Carrie (Modern Library)
July 14, 1997, Modern Library
Hardcover
in English
- New Ed edition
067960250X 9780679602507
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First Sentence
"When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister's address in Van Buren Street, and four dollars in money."
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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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