Sister Carrie
$24.45
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
16 March 2022
Summary
This landmark novel about a small-town girl who runs away to the big city has been hailed as one of the greatest portraits of urban life in American literature.
When Theodore Dreiser’s epic first novel stormed onto the literary scene in 1900, it was a breath of fresh air in more ways than one. Celebrated for the vibrant and gritty realism of its portrayal of city life, Sister Carrie also gave the world an unforgettable heroine—a thoroughly modern young woman who turned the tr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593314883 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0593314883 |
| Author: | Theodore Dreiser |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 16 March 2022 |
| Weight: | 367g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm |
| Series: | Vintage 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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