Sister Carrie
Sister Carrie
By: Theodore Dreiser
Softcover ISBN: 9781596880955
Hardcover ISBN: 9781596880955
Subject: Fiction
Controversial in its time not only for depicting unconventional and immoral behavior, but also for presenting how a young woman overcomes her dependency and adverse circumstances, this was the novel that laid the foundation for Dreiser’s later success.
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Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) was a newspaper reporter and magazine editor whose first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), broke new ground with its spare realism and attention to detail. Among his other novels of social inequality and naturalism, the best-known is An American Tragedy (1925). He also wrote short stories, plays and a number of nonfiction works.
Birthplace: Terre Haute, Indiana
Books: Sister Carrie