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Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser

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English
Bantam USA
15 November 2007
""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.
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Imprint:   Bantam USA
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 172mm,  Width: 106mm,  Spine: 24mm
Weight:   261g
ISBN:   9780553213744
ISBN 10:   0553213741
Pages:   560
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Theodre Dreiser was born into a large and impoverished German American family in Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1871. He began his writing career as a reporter, working for newspapers in Chicago. Pittsburg, and St. Louis, until an editor friend, Arthur Henry, suggested he write a novel. The result was Sister Carrie, based on the life of Dreiser's own sister Emma, who had run off to New York with a married man. Rejected by several publishers as ""immoral"", the book was finally accepted by Doubleday and Company, and published-over Frank Doubleday's strong objections-in 1900.

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