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Sister Carrie
Sister Carrie
Author: Theodore Dreiser
"Theodore Dreiser's first and perhaps greatest novel, SISTER CARRIE, appeared in 1900 and was met with outraged disapproval, and immediately withdrawn as too shocking and sordid for polite readers. But it is precisely in Dreiser's compassionate revelation of the depths of ordinary men and women, their frailty and humanity, that this stormy, cont...  more »
ISBN: 391959
Publication Date: 1900
Pages: 399
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Publisher: Bantam Books Classic
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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