Sister Carrie
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Sister Carrie

  1. 414 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

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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Information

Publisher
Mint Editions
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781513287355
eBook ISBN
9781513287355

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. I. The Magnet Attracting: A Waif Amid Forces
  6. II. What Poverty Threatened: Of Granite and Brass
  7. III. Wee Question of Fortune: Four-Fifty a Week
  8. IV. The Spendings of Fancy: Facts Answer with Sneers
  9. V. A Glittering Night Flower: The Use of a Name
  10. VI. The Machine and the Maiden: A Knight of To-Day
  11. VII. The Lure of the Material: Beauty Speaks for Itself
  12. VIII. Intimations by Winter: An Ambassador Summoned
  13. IX. Convention’s Own Tinder-Box: The Eye that is Green
  14. X. The Counsel of Winter: Fortune’s Ambassador Calls
  15. XI. The Persuasion of Fashion: Feeling Guards O’er its Own
  16. XII. Of the Lamps of the Mansions: The Ambassador Plea
  17. XIII. His Credentials Accepted: A Babel of Tongues
  18. XIV. With Eyes and not Seeing: One Influence Wanes
  19. XV. The Irk of the Old Ties: The Magic of Youth
  20. XVI. A Witless Aladdin: The Gate to the World
  21. XVII. A Glimpse Through the Gateway: Hope Lightens the Eye
  22. XVIII. Just Over the Border: A Hail and Farewell
  23. XIX. An Hour in Elfland: A Clamour Half Heard
  24. XX. The Lure of the Spirit: The Flesh in Pursuit
  25. XXI. The Lure of the Spirit: The Flesh in Pursuit (Continued)
  26. XXII. The Blaze of the Tinder: Flesh Wars with the Flesh
  27. XXIII. A Spirit in Travail: One Rung Put Behind
  28. XXIV. Ashes of Tinder: A Face at the Window
  29. XXV. Ashes of Tinder: The Loosing of Stays
  30. XXVI. The Ambassador Fallen: A Search for the Gate
  31. XXVII. When Waters Engulf us we Reach for a Star
  32. XXVIII. A Pilgrim, An Outlaw: The Spirit Detained
  33. XXIX. The Solace of Travel: The Boats of the Sea
  34. XXX. The Kingdom of Greatness: The Pilgrim Adream
  35. XXXI. A Pet of Good Fortune: Broadway Flaunts its Joys
  36. XXXII. The Feast of Belshazzar: A Seer to Translate
  37. XXXIII. Without the Walled City: The Slope of the Years
  38. XXXIV. The Grind of the Millstones: A Sample of Chaff
  39. XXXV. The Passing of Effort: The Visage of Care
  40. XXXVI. A Grim Retrogression: The Phantom of Chance
  41. XXXVII. The Spirit Awakens: New Search for the Gate
  42. XXXVIII. In Elf Land Disporting: The Grim World Without
  43. XXXIX. Of Lights and of Shadows: The Parting of Worlds
  44. XL. A Public Dissension: A Final Appeal
  45. XLI. The Strike
  46. XLII. A Touch of Spring: The Empty Shell
  47. XLIII. The World Turns Flatterer: An Eye in the Dark
  48. XLIV. And this is not Elf Land: What Gold Will not Buy
  49. XLV. Curious Shifts of the Poor
  50. XLVI. Stirring Troubled Waters
  51. XLVII. The Way of the Beaten: A Harp in the Wind
  52. A Note About the Author
  53. A Note from the Publisher