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Original Title:	Sister Carrie
ISBN:	0393960420 (ISBN13: 9780393960426)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Carrie Meeber, Charles H. Drouet, Minnie Hanson, Sven Hanson, George W. Hurstwood
Setting:	Chicago, Illinois(United States)

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When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.' The tale of Carrie Meeber's rise to stardom in the theatre and George Hurstwood's slow decline captures the twin poles of exuberance and exhaustion in modern city life as never before. The premier example of American naturalism, Dreiser's remarkable first novel has deeply influenced such key writers as William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Saul Bellow, and Joyce Carol Oates. This edition uses the 1900 text, which is regarded as the author's final version.

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Title	:	Sister Carrie
Author	:	Theodore Dreiser
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 580 pages
Published	:	February 1st 1991 by W. W. Norton & Company (first published January 1st 1900)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Literature. American

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This is a classic that I could read over and over again. What a story! If you haven't read it, you should! The story not only captures the reader into the story, it gives you a deep sense of mans crazy nature. I just finished reading this one again. I first read it 7 years ago, and felt is was time to try it again. Dreiser really speaks to my soul!! "Oh Carrie, Carrie! Oh blind strivings of the human heart! Onward onward, it saith, and where beauty leads, there it follows. Whether it be the

I enjoyed parts of this novel but it didn't always engage. To my mind the characters depicted here for one reason or another were mercenary and cold. I realise that much of that stems from the era the novel portrays but it was difficult to drum up a lot of empathy for either Carrie or her admirers.I appreciated more the work conditions in Chicago at the turn of the century, times were tough and not for the faint hearted, only the strongest survived and flourished. From the Boxall 1000 list.

It seems a shame that this novel seems to be fading into oblivion. This happens from time to time even with great writers, not because they stop being great, but because people don't know enough to read them. As the years go by, there are, admittedly, many new novels entering the literary mainstream, but we should not be afraid of making judgments about which ones are better than others. Sister Carrie has long been on the list of great American novels, and deservedly so. Dreiser's writing can be

In the words of Edmund Wilson, "Dreiser commands our respect; but the truth is he writes so badly that it is almost impossible to read him."Sister Carrie is a bad book. Not morally bad, unfortunately. That at least would make it interesting. In that respect, nothing in this book would be out of place in a Progressive lecture on social purity. This line from the first page sets the tone: "When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com:]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.) The CCLaP 100: In which I read for the first time a hundred so-called "classics," then write reports on whether or not they deserve the labelEssay #31: Sister Carrie (1900), by Theodore DreiserThe story in a nutshell:One of the last Victorian-style morality tales to make a big splash, Theodore

6.5/10 Certainly not as I remembered it! A few spoilers herein, so be warned. This time 'round I would have welcomed a judicious editor who would have slashed 300 pages, without blinking.Taking it all in context, I'm fairly confident this would have set America on its ear as Zola's naturalism swam across the ocean and landed its realistic little tugboat in New York and made fodder with George Hurstwood and hay with Carrie Meeber, aka Carrie Madenda, aka Sister Carrie.And in context, I would have

When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. That I prioritized 'Sister Carrie' over at least fifty other books high on the ever-expanding tbr list can be imputed to a matter of false advertising. The blurb hails Carrie as a modern woman in American fiction, a first of her kind (think Kate Chopin's The Awakening released just a year prior