Sister Carrie
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99
1900
English
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- We Question of Fortune: Four-fifty a Week
- The Spendings of Fancy: Facts Answer with Sneers
- A Glittering Night Flower: The Use of a Name
- The Machine and the Maiden: A Knight of Today
- The Lure of the Material: Beauty Speaks for Itself
- Intimations By Winter: An Ambassador Summoned
- Convention's Own Tinder-Box: The Eye That Is Green
- The Counsel Of Winter: Fortune's Ambassador Calls
- The Persuasion Of Fashion: Feeling Guards O'er Its Own
- Of The Lamps Of The Mansions: The Ambassador's Plea
- His Credentials Accepted: A Babel Of Tongues
- With Eyes And Not Seeing: One Influence Wanes
- The Irk Of The Old Ties: The Magic Of Youth
- A Witless Aladdin: The Gate To The World
- A Glimpse Through The Gateway: Hope Lightens The Eye
- Just Over The Border: A Hail And Farewell
- An Hour In Elfland: A Clamour Half Heard
- The Lure Of The Spirit: The Flesh In Pursuit
- The Lure Of The Spirit: The Flesh In Pursuit
- The Blaze Of The Tinder: Flesh Wars With The Flesh
- A Spirit In Travail: One Rung Put Behind
- Ashes Of Tinder: A Face At The Window
- Ashes Of Tinder: The Loosing Of Stays
- The Ambassador Fallen: A Search For The Gate
- When Waters Engulf Us We Reach For A Star
- A Pilgrim, An Outlaw: The Spirit Detained
- The Solace Of Travel: The Boats Of The Sea
- The Kingdom Of Greatness: The Pilgrim Adream
- A Pet Of Good Fortune: Broadway Flaunts Its Joys
- The Feast Of Belshazzar: A Seer To Translate
- Without The Walled City: The Slope Of The Years
- The Grind Of The Millstones: A Sample Of Chaff
- The Passing Of Effort: The Visage Of Care
- A Grim Retrogression: The Phantom Of Chance
- The Spirit Awakens: New Search For The Gate
- In Elf Land Disporting: The Grim World Without
- Of Lights And Of Shadows: The Parting Of Worlds
- A Public Dissension: A Final Appeal
- The Strike
- A Touch Of Spring: The Empty Shell
- The World Turns Flatterer: An Eye In The Dark
- And This Is Not Elf Land: What Gold Will Not Buy
- Curious Shifts Of The Poor
- Stirring Troubled Waters
- The Way Of The Beaten: A Harp In The Wind
Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) was an American author of the naturalist school, known for dealing with the gritty reality of life. Sister Carrie (1900) is his first novel and tells the story of a young country girl who moves to the big city (Chicago) where she starts realizing her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to powerful men and later as a famous actress.
Dreiser and his wife significantly altered the original manuscript to make it more palatable to the prevailing sensibilities of the day, but even this toned down version caused a minor scandal, and Dreiser had difficulty finding a publisher for it. This was due to the blurred division line between good and bad in the plot. Although Dreiser's moralizing narrator does assert that, despite the fame and the money she has amassed, Carrie will not be able to achieve peace of mind in her life, the apparent lack of poetic justice -- the notion that immorality should pay in the end, even if only up to a point -- was a concept the reading public were altogether unused to at the time. (summary from wikipedia)
Dreiser and his wife significantly altered the original manuscript to make it more palatable to the prevailing sensibilities of the day, but even this toned down version caused a minor scandal, and Dreiser had difficulty finding a publisher for it. This was due to the blurred division line between good and bad in the plot. Although Dreiser's moralizing narrator does assert that, despite the fame and the money she has amassed, Carrie will not be able to achieve peace of mind in her life, the apparent lack of poetic justice -- the notion that immorality should pay in the end, even if only up to a point -- was a concept the reading public were altogether unused to at the time. (summary from wikipedia)
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