Sister Carrie (Classics)

Sister Carrie () is a novel by Theodore Dreiser about a young country girl who moves to . In , Black Balloon Publishing released Clementine Classics: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser, a new version of Sister Carrie annotated by.
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Chapter 2: What Poverty Threatened—of Granite and Brass

It leaves behind an inescapable impression of bigness, of epic sweep and dignity. It is not a mere story, not a novel in the customary American meaning of the word; it is at once a psalm of life and a criticism of life. The thing he seeks to do is to stir, to awaken, to move.

One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.

Chapter 1: The Magnet Attracting—A Waif Amid Forces

As he hurled his impressionable midwestern heroine into the throbbing, amoral world of the big city, he revealed, with brilliant insight, the deep and driving forces of American culture: Sister Carrie brought American literature into the twentieth century. This volume, which reprints the text Dreiser approved for publication during his lifetime and includes a special appendix discussing his earlier, unedited manuscript, is the original standard edition of one of the great masterpieces of literary realism. He began his writing career as a reporter, working for newspapers in Chicago.

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