Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser, Alfred Kazin

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Penguin Classics
30 March 1995

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

""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 Carriebrought 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.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.

By: Theodore Dreiser
Introduction by: Alfred Kazin
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 892
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 402g
ISBN: 9780140188288
ISBN 10: 0140188282
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 528
Publication Date: 30 March 1995
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Theodore Dreiser(1871-1945) was born in Terre Haute, Indiana. 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 untilJennie Gerhardtin 1911. There then followed a decade and a half of major work in a number of literary forms, which was capped in 1925 byAn 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.