Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser

• Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9781625585837
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

Dissatisfied with life in her rural Wisconsin home, 18-year-old Caroline moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to men that she perceives as superior and later as a famous actress. It has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels."

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• The Magnet Attracting a Wife Amid Forces
• What Poverty Threatened: of Granite and Brass
• We Question of Fortune: Four-fifty a Week
• The Spendings of Fancy: Facts Answer with Sneers
• A Glittering Night Flower: the Use of a Name
• The Machine and the Maiden: a Knight of To-day
• The Lure of the Material: Beauty Speaks for Itself
• Intimations by Winter: an Ambassador Summoner
• Convention’s Own Tinder-box: the Eye That Is Green
• The Counsel of Winter: Fortune’s Ambassador Calls
• The Persuasion of Fashion: Feeling Guards O’er its Own
• Of the Lamps of the Mansions: the Ambassador Plea
• His Credentials Accepted: a Babel of Tongues
• With Eyes and Not Seeing: one Influence Wanes
• The Irk of the Old Ties: the Magic of Youth
• A Witless Aladdin: the Gate to the World
• A Glimpse Through the Gateway: Hope Lightens the Eye
• Just over the Border: a Hail and Farewell
• An Hour in Elfland: a Clamour Half Heard
• The Lure of the Spirit: the Flesh in Pursuit
• The Blaze of the Tinder: flesh Wars with the Flesh
• A Spirit in Travail: One Rung Put Behind
• Ashes of Tinder: a Face at the Window
• Ashes of Tinder: the Loosing of Stays
• The Ambassador Fallen: a Search for the Gate
• When Waters Engulf Us: We Reach for a Star
• A Pilgrim, an Outlaw: the Spirit Detained
• The Solace of Travel: the Boats of the Sea
• The Kingdom of Greatness: the Pilgrim a Dream
• A Pet of Good Fortune: Broadway Flaunts its Joys
• The Feast of Belshazzar: a Seer to Translate
• Without the Walled City: the Slope of the Years
• The Grind of the Millstones: a Sample of Chaff
• The Passing of Effort: the Visage of Care
• A Grim Retrogression: the Phantom of Chance
• The Spirit Awakens: New Search for the Gate
• In Elf Land Disporting: the Grim World Without
• Of Lights and of Shadows: the Parting of Worlds
• A Public Dissension: a Final Appeal
• The Strike
• A Touch of Spring: the Empty Shell
• The World Turns Flatterer: an Eye in the Dark
• And this Is Not Elf Land: What Gold Will Not Buy
• Curious Shifts of the Poor
• Stirring Troubled Waters
• The Way of the Beaten: a Harp in the Wind