Sister Carrie“When a girl leaves 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.” With Sister Carrie, first published in 1900, Theodore Dreiser transformed the conventional “fallen woman” story into a genuinely innovative and powerful work of fiction. 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: the restless idealism, glamorous materialism, and basic spiritual innocence. 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. |
Contents
Facts Answer with Sneers | |
The Use of a Name | |
A Knight of Today | |
Beauty Speaks for Itself | |
Feeling Guards oer Its | |
The Ambassadors Plea | |
A Babel of Tongues | |
One Influence Wanes | |
The Magic of Youth | |
The Gate to the World | |
Hope Lightens the | |
A Hail and Farewell | |
An Ambassador Summoned | |
The Eye That Is Green | |
Fortunes Ambassador Calls | |
A Clamor Half Heard | |
The Flesh in Pursuit Chapter 21 The Lure of the Spirit The Flesh in Pursuit | |
Flesh Wars with the Flesh | |
Common terms and phrases
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