Sister Carrie
$19.69
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
6 January 2009
Summary
This epic of urban life tells of small-town heroine Carrie Meeber, adrift in an indifferent Chicago. Setting out, she has nothing but a few dollars and an unspoiled beauty. Hers is a story of struggle—from sweatshop to stage success—and of the love she inspires in an older, married man whose obsession with her threatens to destroy him.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780451531148 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0451531140 |
| Author: | Theodore Dreiser |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Signet Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 6 January 2009 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 172mm x 105mm |
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Critics Review
“A goldenish spot on the weariness of the world.” – Ford Madox Ford
“Its outstanding merit is its simplicity, its unaffected seriousness and fervour.” – H.L. Mencken
“One of the very few American giants we have had.” – Irving Howe
About The Author
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, on August 27, 1871. After a poor and difficult childhood, Dreiser broke into newspaper work in Chicago in 1892. A successful career as a magazine writer in New York during the late 1890s was followed by his first novel, Sister Carrie (1900). When this work made little impact, Dreiser published no fiction until Jennie Gerhardt in 1911. There then followed a decade and a half of major work in a number of literary forms, which was capped in 1925 by An American Tragedy, a novel that brought him universal acclaim. Dreiser was increasingly preoccupied by philosophical and political issues during the last two decades of his life. He died in Los Angeles on December 28, 1945.
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