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Sister Carrie / Theodore Dreiser ; with a new introduction by Thomas P. Riggio.
LIBRA PS3507.R55 S5 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young women--Illinois--Chicago--Fiction.
- Young women.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Young women--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 529 pages : maps ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- The Pennsylvania edition, The University of Pennsylvania Dreiser edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
- Summary:
- Sister Carrie, Dreiser's great first novel, transformed the conventional "fallen woman" story into a bold and truly innovative piece of fiction when it appeared in 1900. Naive young Caroline Meeber, a small-town girl seduced by the lure of the modern city, becomes the mistress of a traveling salesman and then of a saloon manager, who elopes with her to New York. Both its subject matter and Dreiser's unsparing, nonjudgmental approach made Sister Carrie a controversial book in its time, and the work retains the power to shock readers today.
- Notes:
- Originally published in 1981.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 514-529).
- ISBN:
- 0812216385
- OCLC:
- 38024134
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