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Sister Carrie
Sister Carrie
Author: Theodore Dreiser
A teenage girl without money or connections leaves her small town in search of a better life in Dreiser's revolutionary first novel. The chronicle of Carrie Meeber's rise from obscurity to fame ? and the effects of her progress on the men who use her and are used in turn ? aroused much controversy upon its debut in 1900.
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ISBN-13: 9780486434681
ISBN-10: 0486434680
Pages: 368
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 4 ratings
Publisher: Dover Publications
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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I get it, I get it....men and capitalism are evil, put down your hammer, my head hurts.

I did enjoy this novel for describing life during the tumultuous social changes of the industrial revolution and I appreciate the impact this novel must have enjoyed when it came out. I did not enjoy the heavy handed writing and messaging.
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Dreiser is a consummate author. His writing keeps me so involved that everything else fades away.
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The story of the vicissitudes attendant upon the publisher's suppression, in 1901, of Sister Carrie is the history of America's emergence from the fog of suspicion and fear of realism in the novel.


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