Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780553213744 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0553213741 |
| Author: | Theodore Dreiser |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Bantam Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 560 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2007 |
| Weight: | 266g |
| Dimensions: | 172mm x 106mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Classics |
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About The Author
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore 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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