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Sister Carrie: One of Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

by Theodore Dreiser

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Theodore Dreiser had a hardscrabble youth and the years of newspaper work behind him when he began his first novel, Sister Carrie, the story of a beautiful Midwestern girl who makes it big in New York City. Published by Doubleday in 1900, it gained a reputation as a shocker, for Dreiser had dared to give the public a heroine whose "cosmopolitan standard of virtue" brings her from Wisconsin, with four dollars in her purse, to a suite at the Waldorf and glittering fame as an actress. With Sister Carrie, the original manuscript of which is in the New York Public Library collections, Dreiser told a tale not "sufficiently delicate" for many of its first readers and critics, but which is now universally recognized as one of the greatest and most influential American novels.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [577]-581).
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ISBN:
9780385487245
Author:
Dreiser, Theodore
Publisher:
Doubleday
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Subject:
New york (state)
Subject:
Young women
Subject:
New York
Subject:
New York (N.Y.) Fiction.
Subject:
Bildungsromane.
Subject:
Didactic fiction
Edition Description:
1st New York Public Library collector's ed.
Series:
New York Public Library Collector's Editions
Series Volume:
no. 2
Publication Date:
1997
Binding:
Trade Cloth
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
xxxiv, 585 p.
Dimensions:
7.57x5.67x1.58 in. 1.60 lbs.
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