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- English
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Sister Carrie
About this book
Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Controversial for its honest depiction of work, desire, and urban life, Sister Carrie has endured as a classic of naturalist fiction and remains a powerful example of social critique over a century after its publication. Despite poor reviews upon publication, the novel is now considered a landmark of American literature. Tired of the countryside, Carrie Meeber moves to Chicago to live with her older sister and her husband. On the train ride into the city, she meets an older man, a handsome traveling salesman named Charles Drouet. Despite their obvious attraction, she decides to focus on finding work in order to pay rent. Carrie struggles at a local factory and longs to pursue her interest in acting, but knows that her obligation to family requires she work diligently and without complaint. One day, she encounters Charles on the street and joins him for lunch. He offers to take her in, suggesting that she need no longer worry about factory work or her sister, and remarking on her natural beauty and effortless charm. Soon, however, she strikes up a relationship with an unhappily married man, risking her stability with Charles and tying her fortunes to Hurstwood, who soon proves arrogant and manipulative. This edition of Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- I. The Magnet Attracting: A Waif Amid Forces
- II. What Poverty Threatened: Of Granite and Brass
- III. Wee Question of Fortune: Four-Fifty a Week
- IV. The Spendings of Fancy: Facts Answer with Sneers
- V. A Glittering Night Flower: The Use of a Name
- VI. The Machine and the Maiden: A Knight of To-Day
- VII. The Lure of the Material: Beauty Speaks for Itself
- VIII. Intimations by Winter: An Ambassador Summoned
- IX. Convention’s Own Tinder-Box: The Eye that is Green
- X. The Counsel of Winter: Fortune’s Ambassador Calls
- XI. The Persuasion of Fashion: Feeling Guards O’er its Own
- XII. Of the Lamps of the Mansions: The Ambassador Plea
- XIII. His Credentials Accepted: A Babel of Tongues
- XIV. With Eyes and not Seeing: One Influence Wanes
- XV. The Irk of the Old Ties: The Magic of Youth
- XVI. A Witless Aladdin: The Gate to the World
- XVII. A Glimpse Through the Gateway: Hope Lightens the Eye
- XVIII. Just Over the Border: A Hail and Farewell
- XIX. An Hour in Elfland: A Clamour Half Heard
- XX. The Lure of the Spirit: The Flesh in Pursuit
- XXI. The Lure of the Spirit: The Flesh in Pursuit (Continued)
- XXII. The Blaze of the Tinder: Flesh Wars with the Flesh
- XXIII. A Spirit in Travail: One Rung Put Behind
- XXIV. Ashes of Tinder: A Face at the Window
- XXV. Ashes of Tinder: The Loosing of Stays
- XXVI. The Ambassador Fallen: A Search for the Gate
- XXVII. When Waters Engulf us we Reach for a Star
- XXVIII. A Pilgrim, An Outlaw: The Spirit Detained
- XXIX. The Solace of Travel: The Boats of the Sea
- XXX. The Kingdom of Greatness: The Pilgrim Adream
- XXXI. A Pet of Good Fortune: Broadway Flaunts its Joys
- XXXII. The Feast of Belshazzar: A Seer to Translate
- XXXIII. Without the Walled City: The Slope of the Years
- XXXIV. The Grind of the Millstones: A Sample of Chaff
- XXXV. The Passing of Effort: The Visage of Care
- XXXVI. A Grim Retrogression: The Phantom of Chance
- XXXVII. The Spirit Awakens: New Search for the Gate
- XXXVIII. In Elf Land Disporting: The Grim World Without
- XXXIX. Of Lights and of Shadows: The Parting of Worlds
- XL. A Public Dissension: A Final Appeal
- XLI. The Strike
- XLII. A Touch of Spring: The Empty Shell
- XLIII. The World Turns Flatterer: An Eye in the Dark
- XLIV. And this is not Elf Land: What Gold Will not Buy
- XLV. Curious Shifts of the Poor
- XLVI. Stirring Troubled Waters
- XLVII. The Way of the Beaten: A Harp in the Wind
- A Note About the Author
- A Note from the Publisher